Tag Archives: Animal Thanet

Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus, and Gorilla gorilla

 

Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus and Gorilla gorilla 

 

Chimpanzees at the beach Rescue Centre & Cafe, Ramsgate Main Sands. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Chimpanzees at the beach Rescue Centre & Cafe, Ramsgate Main Sands. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Chimpanzees at the beach Rescue Centre & Cafe, Ramsgate Main Sands. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Chimpanzees at the beach Rescue Centre & Cafe, Ramsgate Main Sands. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Orangutan, George Street, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Orangutan, George Street, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Chimpanzees on George Street, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Chimpanzees on George Street, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Silverback Gorilla on George Street, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Silverback Gorilla on George Street, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Tipping’s Tiny Zoo, Jacob’s Ladder, Ramsgate.

Red Deer on Jacob’s Ladder, Military Road, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019

 

Red Deer on Jacob’s Ladder, Military Road, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

Jacob’s Ladder is a Grade II Listed flight of stone steps. Built in 1826 by John Shaw.  Dog-leg stairs with three flights of steps faced with ashlar and built between flanking towers with rounded fronts of ashlar, each flight of steps with wide central pilaster; centre landings. Iron balustrade. The present stair replaces an earlier wooden flight of c.1750, 100 yards to the east’. Historic England.

Red Deer, Cervus elaphus with local flora.

 

Red Deer on Jacob’s Ladder, Military Road, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Red Deer on Jacob’s Ladder, Military Road, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Red Deer on Jacob’s Ladder, Military Road, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Small Antelope on Jacob’s Ladder, Military Road, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Red Deer with small Antelope on Jacob’s Ladder, Military Road, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

Stumped: Elephants on Dumpton Park Drive – Animal Thanet 2019

Stumped: Elephant herd marooned on Dumpton Park Drive

These images are part of the ongoing Animal Thanet project and installation / performance, which considers & reflects wider concerns I have for the  natural world, particularly focussed on the lives of its wild animals, conservation, loss of habitat, diminishing numbers, poaching, trophy hunting, extinction and callous exploitation, which holds a mirror to our humanity. We may soon only have plastic versions of our wild neighbours to play with. The last decade has witnessed the slow & horrible realisation that our negative impact on the planet and particularly our plastic pollution of almost every environment, is a real-time catastrophe for the world around us. 

A recently removed tree provides a stump as a refuge and island platform for these Elephants marooned above the pavement on Dumpton Park Drive. Habitat loss is a major issue in Elephant conservation. Human population growth means encroachment on wildlife. Loss of trees and forests leaves space for wildlife diminished and in smaller and smaller pockets or ‘island’ reserves. EleAid 

 

Elephant herd marooned on a tree stump. Dumpton Park Drive, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Elephant herd marooned on a tree stump. Dumpton Park Drive, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Elephant herd marooned on a tree stump. Dumpton Park Drive, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Elephant herd marooned on a tree stump. Dumpton Park Drive, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Elephant herd marooned on a tree stump. Dumpton Park Drive, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Elephant herd marooned on a tree stump. Dumpton Park Drive, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Elephant herd marooned on a tree stump. Dumpton Park Drive, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Elephant herd marooned on a tree stump. Dumpton Park Drive, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Elephant herd marooned on a tree stump. Dumpton Park Drive, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Elephant herd marooned on a tree stump. Dumpton Park Drive, Ramsgate. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Crocodiles on Elms Avenue – Animal Thanet 2019

A haul-out of Nile Crocodiles – Crocodylus niloticus on Elms Avenue, Ramsgate.

These images are part of the ongoing Animal Thanet project and installation / performance, which considers & reflects wider concerns I have for the  natural world, particularly focussed on the lives of its wild animals, conservation, loss of habitat, diminishing numbers, poaching, trophy hunting, extinction and callous exploitation, which holds a mirror to our humanity. We may soon only have plastic versions of our wild neighbours to play with. The last decade has witnessed the slow & horrible realisation that our negative impact on the planet and particularly our plastic pollution of almost every environment, is a real-time catastrophe for the world around us. 

 

Crocodiles haul out on Elms Avenue trailer. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

Above: Crocodiles haul out by a rainwater pool caught in the tarpaulin of a trailer parked on Elms Avenue.

 

Crocodiles haul out on Elms Avenue trailer. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Crocodiles haul out on Elms Avenue trailer. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Crocodiles haul out on Elms Avenue trailer. Animal Thanet 2019. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018

My Garden … May 2018

 

These images consider & reflect wider concerns for the  natural world, particularly focussed on the lives of its wild animals, conservation, loss of habitat, diminishing numbers, poaching, extinction and callous exploitation, which holds a mirror to our humanity. We may soon only have plastic versions of our wild neighbours to play with. The last decade has witnessed the slow & horrible realisation that our negative impact on the planet and particularly our plastic pollution of almost every environment, is a catastrophe for the world around us. 

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Herded – Animal Thanet 2018. Image: Christopher Tipping

 

Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk

‘Animal Thanet’ exists as a series of images which examine our relationship with the natural world and environment through the use of plastic animals placed in a variety of habitats & scenarios in and around Ramsgate & the Isle of Thanet in Kent.

One of my first recollections as a child was of having a farm with plastic animals. I loved it. I collected these animals throughout my childhood and developed a strong affinity with the natural world and the creatures that inhabit it. When I got married and had a family and child of my own, I started collecting again – particularly after we moved to Ramsgate, Kent – always under the pretence that they were for my daughter Nell ! Living by the coast was like revisiting childhood.

My wider concerns for the  natural world, is particularly focussed on the lives of its wild animals. Loss of habitat, diminishing numbers, extinction and callous exploitation hold a mirror to our humanity. We may soon only have plastic versions of our wild neighbours to play with.

This set of images was made on Ramsgate Main Sands and the coastal walk at low tide between Ramsgate and Broadstairs.

Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet - Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping
Animal Thanet – Elephant Walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. Image: Christopher Tipping