Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is the alluring title of the latest exhibition by sculptor Louise McRae. She's been described as an alchemist of materials for the way she manipulates everything from concrete to metals. In he Auckland show, brass, copper, alloy and enamel are combined and pleated with fabrics, then combined with material felts that she's painted. Louise tells Lynn Freeman that she took her exhibition's title from a book by conservation biologist Thor Hanson . Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change showed how animals and plants are currently responding and adapting to climate change. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid by Louise McRae opens on 12 November at WRW. & Co furniture showroom in Matakana in Tamaki Makarau.