Impact of Drought and Fire on Forests
Wed 12 July 2017, 6.30- 7.30pm
How does drought and fire shape our forests today?
Join Tina Bell and Sebastien Pfautsch as they discuss how climate change is predicted to increase the severity and frequency of these disturbances. Understanding their effects and being able to predict their outcomes is important for managing our natural resources.
Tina Bell is an Associate Proffessor, leading the fire research a the Sydney Institute of Agriculture, University of Sydney.
Sebastien Pfautsch also works at the University of Sydney where he is a Senior Researcher of tree physiology and forest management.
This talk is part of 'Undone by Nature.' A special series of exhibitions, talks and masterclasses exploring the way we mimic and design in coexistence with the natural world.
Curator, Dr Therese Kenyon.

Our Designs On Water
24 May 2017 - 6.30pm - 7.30pm
Free Event
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The launch of a special series of talks and exhibitions. Beginning with a joint presentation by a hydrologist and an artist who are concerned with damaging water events and ways to recovery. Hurricane Sandy, 2012 the ‘Battle of the Floods’ the Netherlands in 1953 and Cyclone Winston 2016, are part of the discussion and presentation.
Dr Floris van Ogtrop - Lecturer Hydrology and Modelling Centre for Carbon, Water, and Food | Faculty of Agriculture and Environment School of Life and Environmental Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
Dr Therese Kenyon Artist/ curator exploring the politics and poetics of water in contemporary life.

18th October Artist Talk
JOSHUA YELDHAM & MIA DALBY-BALL
TITLE: SALT MARCHES AND STORIES
Sunlight plays on the water and dances on the undersides of the Mangrove
leaves. Cool mud in our toes and that smell of salt-air mixed with deep Earth. Join us here, where life abounds, for a synthesis of facts on Mangroves and Saltmarsh from Mia Dalby-Ball and awakening through Joshua Yeldham vision of the mangrove as a symbolic process of nature’s supreme technologies - filtering out redundant elements to drink vitality / absorbing our life’s nutrients to taste our full potential.
Joshua’s Bio
Artist and author Joshua Yeldham believes that love for oneself activates nature’s charm, and that the language of creativity can encourage us all to interrupt the daily repetition of life’s storyline. Drawing from a reverential love of nature and deep spiritual affiliation with the land, Joshua Yeldham creates intricately rendered works that oscillate between narrative and myth, imagination and real experience.
Mia’s Bio
Urban Ecology is Mia Dalby-Ball’s area and the focus is on the care, restoration and assisted re-creation of natural systems. A wetland and estuary expert, promoter of urban butterfly birthplaces, Mia’s projects aim to facilitate people’s appreciation of nature so we can celebrate what is here and see it into the future.

6th September Artist Talk
GREG STONEHOUSE & SHANE FAHEY
TITLE: THE PULSE OF A QUIET TRACK
Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park has highlighted the design process, in the practice
of both Art & Science as being one of balancing constraints. In searching for a meaningful direction or a way into understanding non-human, ‘natural’ environments, the scientific and artistic processes are both informed by direct experiential contact with the environment ‘at hand’. When the connection is reinforced in an open and mindfully present manner there is no need to devise any upfront, circumscribed outcome.
Greg’s Bio
Greg Stonehouse‘s art practice has shifted from ephemeral installations to objects, from the studio to permanent public art projects, from the small to the immersive and from the abstract to the figurative. He has no signature. The choice of medium only depends upon what he is saying.
Shane’s Bio
For Shane Fahey, listening, for its own sake, to his immediate environment, holds the same appeal and contains the same transforming quality that the stillness of conscious breath has for a mindful person in contemplation. It has been a challenge to achieve this awareness in the face of the ‘emotion-invested’ goal driven enterprises of the performance and recording arts.
For more information on this project, please visit www.kuringgaieramboo.com.au
2nd August Artist Talk
MIKA UTZON POPOV & SUZANNE SCHIBECI
TITLE: CYCLES
The Australian flora has adapted its life-cycle to the powerful presence of fire. Banksia presents us with an example of the visual and symbolic journey of this relationship: these species not only survive, but are often dependent on the process.
We will focus on the symbolism of destruction, rebirth and longevity. While fire is frightening and destructive, we wish to foster the understanding of its necessity in the survival of the landscape.
Mika’s Bio
Mika was born in Denmark in 1971 and has lived most of his adult life between Denmark, Mallorca and Sydney. He graduated from the National Art School in 1996, with solo exhibitions in Denmark, Spain, Scotland, England and Australia. Mika continues to work with nature as his source of inspiration and guidance.
Suzanne’s Bio
Suzanne is currently a Lecturer at UNSW, teaching various courses in Science. Her research interests include looking at natural recruitment in Banksia, including pollination, seed set and seedling establishment in natural populations in the Sydney area.
For more information on this project, please visit www.kuringgaieramboo.com.au
1st June Artists Talk
Collaborating artists and scientists involved with the innovative Ku-ring-gai pH: art + science project talk together in depth about the way Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park has informed and inspired their ideas about art and science as interrelated elds, and the scienti c and creative concepts they are exploring for the exhibition at Manly Art Gallery & Museum in December 2016.
Ku-ring-gai pH is an exhibition and residency project presented by Eramboo Artist Environment, Manly Art Gallery & Museum and National Parks and Wildlife Service NSW, and supported by Pittwater Council. Curated by Susan Milne and Katherine Roberts.
First Artist Talk
LISA ROBERTS & BILL GLADSTONE
TITLE: OCEANIC BLISS
For more information on this project, please visit www.kuringgaieramboo.com.au