Trees Remnants and Reserves 2022

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This exhibition features drawings recording just a few of the trees found in precious remnants of woodlands and forests along the east coast of Australia, and west of the Great Divide. Botanical artist Morgyn Phillips depicts the story-scarred trunks and limbs of trees in their habitats, their communities, specific to a time and place, rather than the traditional focus on the individual plant. Artist statement: 'I am regularly amazed at the wonderful diversity of environments we have, both where I live and where I holiday in Australia: forests, grassy woodlands, grasslands, mangroves, wetlands, rainforests, and drylands and more. Each of these have their special complement of trees, shrubs and grasses, animals and insects, and soils and rocks that have evolved together over thousands if not millions of years. In this exhibition I wanted to depict particular trees in a particular place and time in a way that tells a story neither strictly botanical nor traditionally landscape. Art is one more way to communicate our concern for and connection to country at a time when global and local extinctions of plants and animals are at an all-time high. I hope this exhibition adds to the call to preserve and regenerate what remains of the vast range of forests, woodlands and grasslands that once covered Australia.' See new events on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxqKJcD5y33GNFEcVDXxjsw/video