Under-Stories

This exhibition tells some of the lesser- known stories from the box gum grassy woodlands that once blanketed much of south-eastern Australia. Paintings and drawings depict small, elusive woodland birds, some of the diverse understorey vegetation comprising this ecosystem and the weeds invading it to tell tales of a complex, fragile biodiversity. Patterning is combined with imagery of birds and plants to point to the impact of European settlement on these woodlands while the reattribution of the Wiradjuri name to images of native plants speaks to the alternate ways of understanding and relating to this ecosystem that exist.