What on Earth
The history of artists reinterpreting and rendering images of flora is long and deep. Mundaring Arts Centre Inc.’s fourth ‘Icon Project’, What On Earth featured a series of exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations and events exploring Australian Flora at Mundaring Arts Centre, Midland Junction Arts Centre and locations across Perth as part of this cross-community project.
What On Earth events and exhibitions celebrating the botanical world were presented at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Midland Junction Arts Centre, Mundaring Arts Centre, Flux Gallery, Boya Community Centre, Mundaring District Museum and Kings Park Festival.
MAC EXHIBITIONS
PART OF THE WHAT ON EARTH PROJECT
Curated by Sarah Toohey
Seeds, Pods and Pollen presents a collection of plant and pollinator inspired artworks created by both children and adults. Artworks have been created through a series of recent workshops across both Mundaring and Midland Junction Arts Centres, at the Avon Descent Festival, and at schools in the surrounding areas.
PART OF THE WHAT ON EARTH PROJECT
An interactive installation by Susie Vickery which takes the form of a cabinet of curiosities, charting the journey of the 18th Century French botanist, Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière. Peregrinations of a Citizen Botanist examines Australia’s current relationship with the environment and presents an alternative view of history.
MJAC EXHIBITIONS, EVENts & WORKSHOPS
Celebrate the botanical world with more What On Earth exhibitions, workshops and events at Midland Junction Arts Centre.
exhibitions, workshops & events
PRESENTED BY MUNDARING & HILLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Join Dr Lenore Layman, retired Australian historian, who enjoys researching and writing about aspects of Western Australian history for a floral-themed historical talk on Margaret Forrest.
PRESENTED BY ZANTHORREA NURSERY
Making native bee accommodation can be fun. Join Janine to learn how to encourage native bees into your garden and provide a nesting area for them. A hands on demonstration using upcycled bits and pieces.
PRESENTED BY THE KATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARD WRITERS CENTRE
The KSP Foundation are commemorating the 50th anniversary since author Katharine Susannah Prichard passed away. Free activities include the Wild Weeds & Windflowers guided heritage garden tour as well as a book launch, series of talks, food, music and more.
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Presented by Mundaring District Museum
Bush Bounty explores the many ways people, past and present, encountered West Australian flora. From food and medicine, to decoration on clothing and domestic items, this exhibition celebrates how the State’s extraordinary botanical diversity has been utilised in the everyday and commonplace.
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Calling all flora inspired creatives and stall holders to be a part of the What on Earth Open Day Market on Sunday 29 September.
PRESENTED BY SHIRE OF MUNDARING LIBRARIES
Join poet and novelist Marcella Polain to write in response to plant life and the time of year. Bring an open mind and heart, and something to write with and on.
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PRESENTED BY THE SHIRE OF MUNDARING AND MUNDARING CAMERA CLUB
Photographers play a critical role in documenting and celebrating the intricacies of the world around us. From nearly 100 entries 40 works have been selected for display in the Mundaring Camera Club Plants and Pollinators Photography Exhibition at the Boya Community Centre.
PRESENTED BY SHIRE OF MUNDARING LIBRARIES
The gentle giants of the Perth Hills don’t just provide shady places for humans to rest and recuperate - they also support a myriad of local wildlife.
Simon Cherriman will provide a perspective on local trees as habitat for wildlife from tiny insects to giant eagles. Simon will also talk about the Noongar names and uses for dominant Perth Hills trees, the scientific names and identifying species, tips of where to see good local species and more.
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PRESENTED BY SHIRE OF MUNDARING LIBRARIES AND KSP WRITERS’ CENTRE
Enter the Wild Weeds and Windflowers Poetry Competition for your chance to win the $300 first prize.
PRESENTED BY KINGS PARK
Kings Park has a great range of events and activities open to the general public throughout the year.
The award winning Kings Park Festival celebrates Spring during the month of September and amateur photographers are invited to upload their work as part of the Flowers in Focus competition.
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As part of the What On Earth Open Day on Sunday 29 September we will be running a colouring competition with designs by Ruth De Vos.
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PRESENTED BY FLUX GALLERY PERTH, KING ST ARTS CENTRE
Curated by Sandra Murray, these five female artists are connected by personal investigations of nature in their art practices, ranging from the minutiae of the landscape to the natural environment and the sky above.
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Photographers play a critical role in documenting and celebrating the intricacies of the world around us. Mundaring Arts Centre and Mundaring Camera Club are calling for submissions of photographs depicting the important role of plants and pollinators.
PRESENTED BY CATHEDRAL SQUARE
Nine Streams of Boorna Malliji (Tree of Shadow) by internationally acclaimed media artist Sohan Ariel Hayes has been expanded with new images for What on Earth.
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PRESENTED BY LAWRENCE WILSON ART GALLERY AND THE ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
The celebration of Western Australia’s wildflowers puts a spotlight on the State’s botanical riches and the threat humans now pose to them. Hear from botanists, curators and artists bringing you an array of botanical and environment themed exhibitions and events in 2019.
PRESENTED BY THE ART GALLERY OF WA
Drawing from the renowned Janet Holmes à Court Collection and the AGWA Collection, this major exhibition explores the abundant beauty of the botanical world and the threats that assail it.
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Presented by Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
Philippa Nikulinsky AM is a Perth-based, internationally recognised botanical and wildlife artist. Nikulinsky Naturally is a survey of her work from the 1970s to the present which provides a perspective on the unique qualities of her practice - focusing on the evolution of her working methodology and exploring the ways in which she continues to interrogate the botanical riches of the Western Australian landscape.
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RESENTED BY EASTERN HILLS WILDFLOWER SOCIETY
Hundreds of local plants on offer grown by local enthusiasts.
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STORIES
On Sunday 5th of October Katrina Virgona held a Felted Pods workshop in conjunction with the Seeds, Pods and Pollen exhibition.
12-18 year olds enjoyed the sunshine while learning new how to observe the scenery and capture it in paint.
Thank you to everyone who came along to the opening of Peregrinations of a Citizen Botanist and Seeds, Pods and Pollen.
The What On Earth Plants and Pollinators Photography exhibition is now on display at Boya Community Centre until 18 November, with two winning photographs selected from over 100 entries.
We kicked off our What On Earth program at Midland Junction Arts Centre with the first open day on Sunday 25 August.
Artist Claire Gillam and our own Jess Boyce joined Bec Bowman on RTRFM’s Artbeat to discuss Claire’s exhibition Botanic Philharmonia at Midland Junction Arts Centre and the What on Earth project.
Narayani Palmer paid a visit to the year ten students of Eastern Hills Senior High School to teach the class about using clay to create clay pod forms.
Visitors to the Avon Descent Festival on Sun 4 August joined artist Jennifer Cochrane, Dan Iley and Phoebe Todd-Parrish to create with nature.
