Linnuaed (Bird’s Garden) [2024]
series of 12, oil and watercolour on paper, digital reproduction, 42x356cmExhibited at Matterhood, Stanley Street Gallery, curated by Sarah Ong, 8-16 April 2025
Photos courtesy of Kudos Gallery ArtStart Volunteers [April 2025]
Linnuaed portrays the Estonian Niche Wall (-33.8783056, 151.0554282) cemetery garden located at Rookwood Necropolis on Dharug Country. The illustrations depict over 120 pl;ant species endemic to the Cumberland Plain and Castlereagh Woodlands region that were planted over a series of talgud (working bees) between July 2023 to July 2024. These prints were made during a residency undertaken at Frontyard in Marrickville, NSW and were given to sponsors of the project. Linnuaed was only made possible by many hands in memory of our ancestors.
Additional thanks to Mai Bell, Malle Lehtsalu, Juhan Lübek, Thomas Lipping, Ene Juurma, Anne Barratt, Ave Nukki, Leena Treffner, Jake Latimer, Allan Taruste, Kath Fries, Karen Manning, all the Gofundme donors, Western Sydney Bush Native Nursery, Harvest Seeds & Native Plants Nursery, Frontyard Projects, Sarah Ong, Kudos Gallery (Levent Can Kaya & Abigail Montgomery) and the Kudos Art Start Volunteers for helping install and document the work at Stanley Street Gallery.
Photos courtesy of Levent Can Kaya [April 2025]
𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥, featured eight artists (Daniel Mulia, Marria Thaddea, Harrison Mae, Luckk Parker, Lachlan Bell, Sarah Ong, Monica Trieu, Nicole Cadelina) working across ceramics, publications, drawing, sculpture, textiles, painting, moving and still image. This exhibition brings together different creatives to explore and investigate the micro and macro ideas of the private and public, the domestic, and natural. Each exhibiting artist reflects on the human interaction within these spaces through various frameworks: from guerilla gardening and eco-poetics to domestic displacement and colonised architectures.