re-wilding (2025)
Collaboration between Annelies Jahn and Jane Burton Taylor
Location: Chrissie Cotter Gallery, 31a Pidcock Street, Camperdown, NSW.
Dates: Wednesday to Sunday 11-4, 26th June to 13th July.
Opening event: Saturday 28th June, 1.30-3.30pm to be opened by Karen Smith, the 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 idiosyncratic place where we live.
The artists, Annelies Jahn and Jane Burton Taylor, have researched the original plant community of the immediate Camperdown area, the Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest, which is now classified as critically endangered. The resulting artworks incorporate live-planted and immersive installations activated with scent, sound and scale, as well as the visual. By revisiting the pre-colonial era, the artists hope to reveal a glimpse of the intrinsic and original character of local Wangal and Gadigal Lands. They share their research practically too, and have grown endemic plants from seed to gift to visitors to support local biodiversity. Their belief is that re-wilding is, in part, the growing of an enjoyment and an appreciation – and by implication a care – of nature, specifically the natural state of the place where we live.
Other events:
* Sunday 29th at 12: Performance, Sapling, drawing of a young Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark
* Friday 4th July. At 11 – 12.30 Drawing Workshop
* Sunday 6th July at 12: Artists Talk
* Wednesday 9 July at 11 – 12.30: Ecological workshop on planting for local wildlife in verges and gardens run by Adam Ward of Inner West Council
*Sunday 13th July 2-4: Closing event with talk by Michael Hill, Head of Art History and initiator or Ecology course at National Art School (NAS), Darlinghurst, NSW. Endemic tube stock and established native plants will be given away at this event.
For bookings to join a workshop SMS the artists on 0412154709 or 0412608469
This exhibition is generously supported by the Inner West Council.
https://www.gardeningaustraliamag.com.au/wild-work/
Dates: Wednesday to Sunday 11-4, 26th June to 13th July.
Opening event: Saturday 28th June, 1.30-3.30pm to be opened by Karen Smith, the 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 idiosyncratic place where we live.
The artists, Annelies Jahn and Jane Burton Taylor, have researched the original plant community of the immediate Camperdown area, the Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest, which is now classified as critically endangered. The resulting artworks incorporate live-planted and immersive installations activated with scent, sound and scale, as well as the visual. By revisiting the pre-colonial era, the artists hope to reveal a glimpse of the intrinsic and original character of local Wangal and Gadigal Lands. They share their research practically too, and have grown endemic plants from seed to gift to visitors to support local biodiversity. Their belief is that re-wilding is, in part, the growing of an enjoyment and an appreciation – and by implication a care – of nature, specifically the natural state of the place where we live.
Other events:
* Sunday 29th at 12: Performance, Sapling, drawing of a young Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark
* Friday 4th July. At 11 – 12.30 Drawing Workshop
* Sunday 6th July at 12: Artists Talk
* Wednesday 9 July at 11 – 12.30: Ecological workshop on planting for local wildlife in verges and gardens run by Adam Ward of Inner West Council
*Sunday 13th July 2-4: Closing event with talk by Michael Hill, Head of Art History and initiator or Ecology course at National Art School (NAS), Darlinghurst, NSW. Endemic tube stock and established native plants will be given away at this event.
For bookings to join a workshop SMS the artists on 0412154709 or 0412608469
This exhibition is generously supported by the Inner West Council.
https://www.gardeningaustraliamag.com.au/wild-work/