WEB RESOURCES
Browse our collection of some of the web links that have informed this project
Grasslands: Biodiversity of south-eastern Australia aims to introduce and build an appreciation of the unique biodiversity of south-eastern Australia’s endangered temperate native grasslands
Dr Judi Earl explains some of the identifying features of Kangaroo grass (Themeda australis) as well as its benefits to native pastures.
GrassBase – The Online World Grass Flora) is a web-based database of grasses, continually maintained and updated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
STIPA promote native pasture use in Australia and have a nice simple grass identification page
The authoritative database of Australia Grasses - that evolved from the CSIRO original Flora of Australia Books
A historic gem by Fred Turner, who surveyed Australian grasses at the turn of the century, noting how much damaged had been done to native grasslands back then.
Friends of Grasslands ('FoG' for short) is a Canberra based community group dedicated to conservation of natural temperate grassy ecosystems in south-eastern Australia. FoG advocates, educates and advises on matters to do with the conservation of grassy ecosystems, and carries out surveys and other on-ground work
Grasslands was a site-responsive installation at the State Library of Victoria that aspired to recreate the pre-settlement grassland that once stretched across Melbourne, using the information and networks within the library itself. Grasslands was included in the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2014
Grasslands was a site-responsive installation at the State Library of Victoria that aspired to recreate the pre-settlement grassland that once stretched across Melbourne, using the information and networks within the library itself. Grasslands was included in the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2014
Native grasslands are under threat world-wide, just as we’re waking up to their environmental worth
Piet Oudolf’s planting shows evolutionary progression – where the open meadows move into areas where shrubs and small trees are taking shape, then onto more wooded walkways.
Bruce's farm in East Gippsland, Victoria, is producing native grains for flour and bread using traditional Aboriginal techniques
Baracco and Wright Architects collaboration with artist Linda Tegg, filled the Denton Corker Marshall-designed Australian Pavillion with more than 10,000 plants, including 65 different Victorian grassland species to create the Repair exhibit at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.
These gardens and meadows were a success in 2012 but more must be done to secure their legacy
If pollinators designed gardens, what would humans see? An interactive garden design tool for creative mind
Yaamarra & Yarral is a retailer and wholesaler of stone-milled grass flour
Gamilaraay man Jacob Birch pushes to bring ancient native grains to the table
Native 'superfood' grasses used to create flour, beer growing in popularity
How ecologists are learning to re-create lost biodiverse grasslands
Carbon_Dating is an experimental artwork designed to seed ‘consensual’ partnerships between Australian native grasses and humans, based upon their shared need to breathe each other’s ‘exhaled’ air.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the many lands on which we live, work and create, including our collaborators on Yirrganydji, Barunggam, Jagera/Yuggera, Turbal, Ugarapul, Jinibara, Kabi Kabi and Kombumerri Country. We acknowledge their ongoing connection and custodianship for Country. We pay our deep respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We recognise First Nations people as the first artists and scientists. Always was, always will be.
The 2024-5 Carbon_Dating exhibition tour is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts QueenslandAssisted by QUT School of Creative Arts, International Art Services (IAS), Native Seeds Pty Ltd, Artfully, and Embodied Media.
Between 2019-23 this project was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. It was also supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF). The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government: Cairns Regional Council; Western Downs Regional Council; City of Gold Coast Council; Somerset Regional Council; and ArtsCoast as part of Sunshine Coast Council’s RADF program to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
Thanks also to QUT (School of Creative Arts, QUT Office of eResearch and Samford Ecological Research Facility). NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns; Dogwood Crossing Gallery, Miles; HOTA, Gold Coast; The Condensery, Toogooloowah; Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra; Native Seeds Pty Ltd and ReBul Packaging.
