Francis Upritchard's Exotic Artifacts from an Alternate Universe

Francis Upritchard, Sun Worship (detail), 2013, modelling material, foil, wire, paint, cloth, 141 x 25 x 19 cm. Collection of Simon Robinson. Courtesy of the artist and Kate MacGarry, London. Francis Upritchard's Alternate Universe at MUMA, Melbourne About 85 million years ago, New Zealand broke off and floated away from Australia and Antarctica. Isolated for millennia, the islands' plants and animals evolved in peculiar ways--giant, flightless birds, ground-walking bats, and enormous, carnivoro...