Numbat - Endangered Animals Riso Print

This Numbat print is one of a series of Riso prints of endangered animals.
10% of sales from these prints will be donated to charities
working to preserve endangered animals in their own habitat.

Riso printing is very energy efficient, sustainable and non toxic way of making prints.
It was developed in Japan, has been around since the 1970’s and put simply is a sort of cross
between screen printing and a photocopier.
With real inks and real layers each one is very slightly different.

The Numbat, also known as the Noombat or Walpurti,
is a marsupial that lives in Western Australia. Unusually for a marsupial it is mostly active by day, digging up termites and catching them with its long sticky tongue.
Female numbats don't have a typical pouch, so the young attach
to their mother’s teats and hold on by entwining their front legs
in the surrounding fur.
Numbats have been endangered since the early 20th century.

Paper size: 29.7 x 29.7 cm.
Open edition, titled and signed.

Sarah Young is a painter, printmaker, illustrator and maker. As a printmaker she makes lino and wood cuts but also works in screen printing, riso and collagraph.
Thank you for looking!