Bracken falling into Winter, Bunyip Creek

The exhibition is a national award and peer reviewed by nationally significant curators in a public art gallery. My work was short listed from 490 entries for the exhbition of 66 artworks by Nici Cumpston, Curator, Art Gallery of South Australia, Therese Ritchie, Photographer and Kelly Gallatly, Director, Ian Potter Museum of Art, and prize rejudged by Dr Michael Brand, Director, Art Gallery of New South Wales. For this research project have been observing and documenting the transformation of land, from managed agriculture to recovering bushland, through my art practice. Since the 1960s former farmland is re-emerging as a version of its former self in a pocket of land next to Mt Buffalo National Park at Bunyip Creek in the Victorian alpine region. Imported weeds and grasses compete with indigenous species, a battle of survival with changing successes and losses. Bracken, once a weed for the farmer, now grows luxuriantly and ensures a future for itself and associated indigenous biodiversity through cyclic decay and regrowth.