Between nature and culture: ‘The Remarkable Tasmanian Devil’ at TMAG

In this time of rapid species losses, the philosopher Donna Haraway exhorts us to 'make kin, not babies'. 'The Remarkable Tasmanian Devil' exhibition at Hobart's Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery appears to have embraced this mantra in tracing the evolving public aesthetics of the island state icon, from a reviled predator persecuted through bounty schemes to an adorable tourist ambassador and official animal emblem. Haraway argues that 'we need stories (and theories) that are just big enough to gather up the complexities and keep the edges open and greedy for surprising new and old connections'.