A wide diversity of plant communities ... and an elusive bird.
Mt Field I: At Our Back Door, and Worlds Away
A World Apart: Dark MOFO, 2017
In rituals, "relationships are suspended, and everyday life is turned upside-down. They become a temporary world apart." Professor Adrian Franklin, The Making of MONA.
The Huts of Mt Wellington
In the nineteenth century, people started building small huts on the mountain’s lower slopes.
The Handweavers, Spinners and Dyers Guild of Tasmania
Behind Tasmania's stone walls, bright things are happening.
Not Lost After All
(For the history of The Handweavers, Spinners and Dyers Guild see here.) That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. from A Shropshire Lad, 1896 by A. E. Houseman It is a glittering autumn day. The streets of Battery Point are bathed... Continue Reading →
Tasmanian Waratah
The vivid scarlet colouring of these flowers, shining out among the sombre blue green of the gum forests is certainly one of the most beautiful sights that the Tasmanian bush affords. Geoffrey Smith, 1909, A Naturalist in Tasmania, p 55 Geoffrey Smith M. A. was a fellow of New College, Oxford, who came to Tasmania for six... Continue Reading →
Transgressive, Immersive, Delinquent
Dark MOFO has us looking upwards, into the spaces between the stars and inwards, to our darkest thoughts.
Wonderment
"MONA is a theatre of strange enchantments" Richard Flanagan
Eden Project Hobart
There is a proposal to build an Eden Project, in Hobart. It would be a science centre and art installation, incorporating bio-domes with an Antarctic theme.
