when: 27 August 2025 - 21 September 2025 | venue: Strathnairn Arts Homestead Gallery 2 | cost: See event for details | address: 90 Stockdill Drive Holt 2615 | website: https://strathnairn.com.au
published: 28 Aug 2025, 5 min read
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Holding the Ground: The Fragility and Resilience of Native Grasses is a new exhibition by Canberra-based artist Karen Holloway at Strathnairn Arts.
Through delicate watercolours, textural forms, and expressive botanical studies, Holloway explores the quiet strength and ecological importance of Australian native grasses—plants that are often overlooked, yet vital to biodiversity, soil health, and the living memory of land. Drawing from field studies and personal encounters with remnant grasslands across the ACT and surrounding regions, her works reflect both the vulnerability of grasses to disturbance and their remarkable resilience, recovery, and interconnectedness with other species.
The exhibition acknowledges the cultural significance of native grasses within First Nations land management and traditions of care for Country, offering visitors a sensory and contemplative experience that is as much about looking closely as it is about slowing down.
Holding the Ground is an invitation to reconnect with the overlooked resilience beneath our feet—reminding you that healing, both ecological and personal, is often quiet, collective, and deeply rooted.
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Holding the Ground: The Fragility and Resilience of Native Grasses is a new exhibition by Canberra-based artist Karen Holloway at Strathnairn Arts.
Through delicate watercolours, textural forms, and expressive botanical studies, Holloway explores the quiet strength and ecological importance of Australian native grasses—plants that are often overlooked, yet vital to biodiversity, soil health, and the living memory of land. Drawing from field studies and personal encounters with remnant grasslands across the ACT and surrounding regions, her works reflect both the vulnerability of grasses to disturbance and their remarkable resilience, recovery, and interconnectedness with other species.
The exhibition acknowledges the cultural significance of native grasses within First Nations land management and traditions of care for Country, offering visitors a sensory and contemplative experience that is as much about looking closely as it is about slowing down.
Holding the Ground is an invitation to reconnect with the overlooked resilience beneath our feet—reminding you that healing, both ecological and personal, is often quiet, collective, and deeply rooted.
Go see Karen Holloway - Holding the Ground Exhibition 2025.
Karen Holloway - Holding the Ground Exhibition 2025 is on 27 August 2025 - 21 September 2025. The opening hours are: See event website for details. Conveniently located in Holt. Call 02 6254 2134 for details. Visit their website at https://strathnairn.com.au.
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