SALTY

Tasmania | Australia

Wild Light: Salty | Scott Bennett| 2025 | Acrylic on canvas | 101.6 cm x 101.6 cm | PLACE A BID

Artist statement

The Australian Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) is the world’s fourth-rarest Seal species. Hunted to the brink of extinction last century, population recovery has been slow, and seals are now wholly protected. It is the most common seal in Tasmanian waters and breeds on small isolated rocks in Bass Strait between October and January. It also hauls-out at various rocky areas around the Tasmanian coastline, especially outside the breeding season when many seals disperse from the breeding colonies.