Resistance/Resilience

What does traditional land management in our changing climate teach us about the vulnerability of eucalypts, and the significance of their survival?   Featuring Dean Nicolle, founder and manager of Currency Creek Arboretum; Oliver Costello, Bundjalung man and co-founder of Firesticks Alliance Indi…

Alchemy

Alchemy is at once a medieval science, a speculative philosophy, a force that transforms matter in mysterious ways, and a metaphor for transformation. We look at how plants and trees become forces for symbolic and material transformation in Western art and culture.    Featuring Gina Buenfeld-Murle…

Vitality

When we speak of the vitality of plants, trees and knowledge, we are talking about the potency the ever-present power of Country. As Wiradjuri artist and poet Jazz Money has written, “no colonial intervention can alter the truth of Country”.   Featuring Zena Cumpston, Barkandji woman and researche…

Identity

How do we tell stories through trees, and how do trees tell us their stories? When trees are viewed as kin rather than inanimate others, how might this change our understanding of our place in the world and our sense of identity?   Featuring Professor Brian Martin, Bundjalung, Muruwari and Kamilar…

Spectres/Sentinels

We discuss the eucalypt as sentinel and witness to contested, obscured and enduring histories in Australia. What can we learn from trees that have withstood and absorbed the past, and what can this teach us about our futures?  Featuring Alisa Bunbury, Grimwade Collection Curator at the Ian Potter …