They tend backyards brimming with cactus varieties, consuming the produce. Prudence Gibson meets a hidden group of gardeners and ponders the allure – and – danger of psychoactive plants.
Daniel Boyd’s solo exhibition Treasure Island, now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is a deeply political and personal interrogation of Australia’s colonial history.
In a program of major artworks, film and an innovative living book, researchers will interpret and increase public engagement with 1.4 million herbarium specimens.
Who speaks for the trees? Written and produced by Dr. Prudence Gibson in collaboration with UNSW Art & Design industry partner Royal Botanic Gardens and Bundanon Trust, this short film is a proof-of-concept for a UNSW Art & Design ARC Linkage proposal.
In a contemporary culture that is saturated with images of death, homelessness and war, it is perhaps the quiet stillness of David Goldblatt’s images that make them a little unnerving.
A new study appears to show plants can learn from experience, raising intriguing questions about the possibility of plant cognition, writes Prudence Gibson.
As scientists make a renewed push for greater action on climate change, a new installation at the Australian Museum brings home the fragility of our world, writes Prudence Gibson.
