Until 29 June

Growing Home, The Street Trees of Canberra.
Growing Home, The Street Trees of Canberra is an exhibition of relief sculptures of the trees that characterise the Canberra landscape.
Using papier mache and modelling wax, Elizabeth Paterson traces the history of the street trees that dominate our bush capital.
Inspired by the challenge of portraying the tapestry and texture of the place she calls home, Elizabeth experimented to create a visual language that comes out of the papier mache materials.
The exhibition explores how the interplanting of exotic and native trees in public spaces contributes to shaping our perceptions of the kinds of plants that make us feel at home.
Eucalypts were first used in mixed plantings by Charles Weston between 1913 and 1926 to delineate within the paddocks the skeleton of what would be Canberra’s streets and avenues. Lyndsay Pryor continued with more informal planting styles creating a blending of plantings and textures in the suburbs as we know them now.
Growing Home, The Street Trees of Canberra is showing at the Gardens’ Visitor Centre Gallery – Clunies Ross Street - until 29 June, 2008.

Thursday’s
1 May to 3 July
at 2.30pm  
Repeated Sundays
4 May to 6 July
at 11am

Mushrooms, Stinkhorns, Cannonball fungi and more.
Fungi lecture series with Heino Lepp; no previous fungal or botanical knowledge necessary.

(course outline)

Thursday
19 June
12.30pm

Street Trees – Behind the Scenes 
With the artist Elizabeth Paterson

Trees - the inside story 
With Roger Heady