Art exhibitions constantly surprise me. There is a little one in the small exhibition space at the National Botanical Gardens called the Song Lines of the Wiradjuri Scar Trees. The artist Duncan Smith has worked from a set of black and white photographs of scar trees in the lands of the Wiradjuri people. These trees have varied cultural significance and the ones in this exhibition have all been cut down. Smith has created an indigenous painting inspired by each of the photographs to give an artistic response to the trees. The paintings are large and strikingly beautiful.
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