The NSW Environment Awards, hosted by the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, Nature Conservation Council NSW, was recently held at Customs House in Sydney.
A major effort to rehabilitate almost 30 kilometres of flood-affected riverbanks across NSW has received international recognition, with Local Land Services and the Soil Conservation Service winning this year’s International Erosion Control Association Australasia (IECA Australasia) Environmental Excellence Award.
In Michelle Anderson’s Kanpala, circles of red, orange and yellow bring a place in Western Australia’s Spinifex Country into view. It’s a place she returns to often in paint: Kanpa, the Country where her grandmother was born.
We are all familiar with the shortcomings of government. Political leanings aside, who among us has not felt that corruption and lack of accountability exist in government bodies?
The Overall Grand winner Aniella Lev in Sacred Spilosoma the costume she designed and made at Shearwater’s annual Wearable Arts extravaganza WAVE last week.
Last week’s WAVE (Wearable Arts Vision in Education) exhibition, was held at Mullum’s Shearwater School.
WAVE is embedded into Shearwater’s high school curriculum with around 200 students taking on roles as dancers, musicians, actors, writers, filmmakers and editors, lighting and audio technicians, carpenters, tailors, set and prop designers, stage hands, models and caterers!
This year’s production drew sellout crowds, 1100 people over the four nights last week.
Photos Jeff ‘Bric-A-Brac And Back’ Dawson
Directors Prize, The Butterfly Serpent By Elouise Gales, modelled by Shed Nava.
Shearwater’s annual Wearable Arts extravaganza WAVE last week.
The Overall Grand winner Aniella Lev in Sacred Spilosoma.
Directors Prize, The Butterfly Serpent By Elouise Gales, modelled by Shed Nava. at last weeks WAVE.
Shearwater’s annual Wearable Arts extravaganza WAVE last week.
Shearwater’s annual Wearable Arts extravaganza WAVE last week.
Shearwater’s annual Wearable Arts extravaganza WAVE last week.
Shearwater’s annual Wearable Arts extravaganza WAVE last week.
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