The NSW State Library has purchased Sandi Rigby’s box of 11 etchings of Powerful Owls. Sandi said the etchings were started in 2012, for a project to fight a development that was going to knock down part of a local Blue Gum Forest, the habitat for a pair of Powerful Owls. Sandi monitored the pair over a season, and was rewarded with sighting of their chicks. Powerful Owls are listed as “vulnerable”.
The box contained the story and a drawing of the area in habituated by the owls. The Library hopes to put them in an exhibition next year for recent acquisitions.