The Hybrid Project, is a collaboration between artists Jessie Cacchillo and Craig Waddell that explores how we, as humans, manipulate and interact with the natural world.

The artists work from a studio on a rural property in New South Wales and their animal-hybrids or 'mutants' grew out of their interest in recycling studio waste and reusing discarded farm equipment as art materials.

By recycling a traditionally two dimensional material and transforming it into a three dimensional material, the artists ­ both painters, connect with and extend their painting practice into their sculptural work, and visa versa.

By reconstituting or giving new life to these rejected materials they create new animal hybrids and environments to contain them. The intent is to explore the implications of genetic engineering and selective breeding and consider the similarities and differences between the role of the artist and that of the scientist.

Disturbing, yet beautiful, these newly constructed objects embody both the seduction and the cruelty implicit in the quest for perfection and ponder the ethical and aesthetic implications implicit in the act of creation.