Grey Box Community

Saving Our Environment

Guarding the Grey Box

 

Local Artists

 

concerned

 

for the

 

environment

 

Greg Johns

Gavin Malone

Helen Crawford
  
Charles Griffin

Deb Sleeman

ray meandering

   

Community of Trees 

 

Community of Trees

 

Uniting Church

Blackwood

Community 

 

Main Road Blackwood

 "Tree Guards"

Artist Greg Johns

The Grey Box Community Presents


SALA

 

Guarding

 

the

 

Grey

 

Box

 

2008

Looking

Question 

Guarding 

Community 

Trees

Threatened

Species 

Eucalyptus

microcarpa

 

Grey

 

Box 

 

 

Looking at the question of Guarding a

Community of Trees,

in particular

a threatened species of

Eucalyptus microcarpa.

 

 

 

Deb Sleeman

The House 

We are creatures of habit 

  
We came to this country and tried to make it like  the other side of the world.

We come to the hills and try to urbanise them like the plains.

We can manicure the grey box habitat out of existence, but then there will only be

 

houses
 
to
 
guard.
   

ray meandering

 

Community

 

Working to

 

Protect

 

 

Grey Box Woodland

 

UNDER STORY

PORTRAIT OF A COMMUNITY OF TREES


Portrait of a Tree  “ the tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way.

Some see nature all ridicule and deformity and by these I shall not regulate my proportions, and some scarce see nature at all.

But to the man of imagination, nature is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

You certainly mistake, when you say that visions of fancy are not to be found in this world”. Letter from ‘A world without Trees’  R. Lamb.


Greg Johns

Tree Guards


This outdoor exhibition will hopefully raise awareness about the now threatened 
"Grey Box" trees of the Mitcham Hills area.

Their removal in an unsustainable way, robbing us of our greatest wealth, biodiversity,

is reflective of  the urgent situation we now find ourselves in Australia wide.

We must learn to live with this place, which is not Europe.

My work is entitled "Tree Guards",
 
  
 
four steel guardian figures, linked,
surrounding a relatively young "Grey Box", protecting it for future generations.
  

 

Helen Crawford

 

Bling & Marketing

 

A visual attention seeking and experimental

question about our community's interaction

with the

 
 

"jewel in the crown"

of the already rare grey box woodland ecosystem

 

 "yes, the grey box tree". 

Gavin Malone

 

Ghost Gums

 

The disappearing Greybox (Eucalyptus microcarpa)

is a microcosm of the loss of many other species,

overtime and currently.

Each unthoughtful or unnecessary

loss of old trees diminishes not only our

remnant native vegetation but our connectedness

with the indigenous nature of place.

 

This work presents several

ghost like or guardians’ figures,

themselves fractured or not complete,

who attempt to protect the present generation of trees

and reflect on what has been lost. 

Charles Griffin


Connect & Protect

 

 Charles Griffin,

Amaya Heywood,

Robin Goodfellow,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wrapping guards what’s precious and what’s precious

enriches our soul. Fragile stepping-stones connect

wildlife corridors … natures’ safe passage,

fraying at the edges and hanging on in threads.

 

 Connect and Protect …

That’s vital for our biodiversity our unique local plants

our wildlife corridors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any losses

diminish our quality of life

and erode our community’s soul.