Sculpture in the Botanic Gardens and Watt Space Gallery
Peter Tilley Hunter Region Botanic Gardens digital photograph
RESPONSE III
Tracie Bertram Laura Bishop Max Blanch Andy Devine Doug Heslop Fiona Lee & Aaron Crowe Kelly Ann Lees Louisa Magrics Vlase Nikoleski Jon Pryer Ron Royes Greg Salter Kris Smith Shellie Smith Lezlie Tilley Peter Tilley John Turier Trevor Weekes Bridget Whitehead Grahame Wilson Patricia Wilson Adams Dean Winter
Please join the artists for two launches:
at Watt Space Gallery Thursday 31 July from 5.30pm
and at Hunter Region Botanic Gardens Saturday 2 August from 1pm
Twenty three artists explore, challenge and interrogate the dialogue that has long existed between architectural sculptural form and the natural environment for this exhibition at the Hunter Region Botanic Gardens. Choosing their own site within which to work among the 130 hectares nestled on the lower reaches of the Hunter River at Heatherbrae, site and its specifics are at the core of the developed work.
The primary inspiration from the external large-scale work extends the visual narrative from the sculptures nestled in the dense natural terrain to those in the mediated gallery environment. Each artist was invited to develop interventions into the vast external spaces and these have been wrought into domestic scale sculptures as maquettes or companion pieces to the in situ works for exhibition at Watt Space Gallery.
This exhibition is a partnership between the Hunter Region Botanic Gardens, and the University Galleries, Watt Space.
https://www.huntergardens.org.au/
Event Information
- Date: 23rd July – 13th September 2025
- Location: Watt Space Gallery
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.