Re-Wilding

Opening event: Saturday 28 June, 1.30pm–3.30pm to be opened by Karen Smith, Aboriginal Education Officer of the Aboriginal Heritage Office, Freshwater, NSW.

This exhibition explores re-wilding, as an ecological framework and as a way of relating intimately to place. The artists, Annelies Jahn and Jane Burton Taylor, have researched the original plant community of the immediate Camperdown area of Wangal and Gadigal Lands. This community, the Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest, is now critically endangered. The resulting works incorporate live-planted and immersive installations activated with scent, sound and scale, as well as the visual. The two masters National Art School graduates work collaboratively as eco artists. Their premise is that re-wilding is, in part, the growing of an appreciation – and by implication a care – of the specific place where we live.

Performances and workshops on the following dates: Sunday 29 June, Friday 4 July, Sunday 6 July (artists talk), Wednesday 9 July and Sunday 13 July, the closing event with talk by Michael Hill, Head of Art History and initiator of the Ecology course at NAS. Tube stock and established indigenous plants will be given away at this event.

Gallery open: Wednesday to Sunday 11am–4pm.

This exhibition is supported by Inner West Council.