Monument to the seals of Tsarsberg

Tsarsberg is within the West Coast National Park, with a clear view of Langeberg lagoon mouth and the fishing vessels. At the high-water mark, there is a row of carcases and rib cages of seals, a sort of killing field. Out-competed for food by industrial fishing practices and the human population bloom, Bellamy wit(h)nesses in his work “Monument to the seals of Tsarsberg” through a dynamic, almost living monument shaped in clay. Where flowers of the Haemanthus albiflos flower grows through the ribs and bone picket fence, where the seals rest at the high tide mark.

As Bellamy explains: “Intentionally fragile, the work emphasises identification with our planetary next-door-neighbours and calls for radical human humbleness, challenging anthropocentrism and human privilege.”

In his other work, “Impact” A prognosticatory ceramic addressing what Bellamy calls: 'history of the future', where the accumulation of human impacts on the biosphere, and intra-species competition over resources instigate Collapse and systematic and systemic violences. Made in 2019, the work seems to have predicted the contemporary period, addressing both wars and the looming attack by humans on under-sea environments.