Woolloomooloo community gardens #whataretheplantstories BGANZ @BrettSumm Prudence Gibson Brenden @sjottka KewGardens

Wait, there's a purple variety?! Love-child of superb and red-backed fairy-wrens! (photocredits Ben Twist and Anne Winterflood Wikipedia)

'At a time of disconnection from the power and independence of plant life, I was starting to see the Green Man as having potential as a future spokesperson for difficult issues of environmental demise and lowering biodiversity.' sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/the-gree…

Bees can perceive flower colours and hues which are invisible to humans. Two RMIT University experts explain how this has impacted the evolution of plants. bit.ly/3eXy2Ch

The CreaTures call for Open Urban Forest Experimental Production has a week to go! 🔔 This call explores multiple voices, relations, & stories that form and emerge from an urban forest. Apply by 5 Aug, more info here: creatures-eu.org/open-calls/ RMIT Research RMIT DCP ECP @jaz_off

Gilles Clement's Third Landscape - urban or rural transitional spaces, roadsides, shores, railroad embankments, etc. are the "genetic reservoir of the planet". Privileged areas of receptivity to biological diversity gillesclement.com/art-454-tit-Th…

So interesting - Clement's "Garden without a form" - a map of a city beyond buildings and roads, the synchretic city, made of relations, exchanges, communication, emotions" (from Digital Urban Acupuncture, Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico)

"Landscape cartography is more extended than territorial maps, corresponding to a series of boundaries that vibrate, and in which the straight line is excluded" (Clement)

"Herbs exist, each with a name, a role, each bound to an insect, a bird, or another planet and these connections are often intertwined."

"The steps in making a map—selection, omission, simplification, classification, the creation of hierarchies, and 'symbolization'—are all inherently rhetorical" - J. B. Harley, Deconstructing the Map (thanks UMich for making this OA) quod.lib.umich.edu/p/passages/476…

"Power comes from the map and it traverses the way maps are made. The key to this internal power is thus cartographic process." - Harley

We're excited to share with you Phytogenesis II, an online symposium on vegetal life from @aloiarttalk and University of Plymouth. Registration and more info here: plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/phyto…

Excited to announce our Tellus Art Project at PlantBank partnering with Sydney Travel ! Opening at Mt Annan on May 14th #plants #EnvHum

Introducing our first two artists featuring in the Tellus Art Exhibition at PlantBank, Mount Annan: Anna Raupach @anna__madeleine and Fabri Blacklock. instagram.com/p/CdCGfe-vvd1/ Prudence Gibson @BrettSumm Sydney Travel #envhum #envart #plants #herbarium #unswada

A tantalising glimpse of @anna__madeleine new work 'Vivid Frequencies' for Tellus art exhibition! instagram.com/p/CdHldvJNOxh/ Prudence Gibson @BrettSumm Sydney Travel #unswada #envhum #envart #plants #herbarium

A detail from Fabri Blacklock's beautiful new work for our Tellus exhibition.🌱Opens this Saturday 14th of May! ☀️ instagram.com/p/CdURxcZv-vA/ Prudence Gibson @BrettSumm Sydney Travel UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture #FabriBlacklock #envhum #envart #plants #herbarium #climatechange

Dr @anna__madeleine from ANU Art & Design references natural cycles & creates incredible mixed-reality artworks & electronic installations. Experience her audio-visual artwork "Vivid Frequencies" at the Tellus Art Project opening on May 14 at the Garden bit.ly/3KGoFEb