Galleries and museums around the world have moved online in these unprecedented times, so too has the PL❤NTS Exhibition, which features more than 150 artworks celebrating people's love of plants including our very own White Bluff artist Julie Nash, and her work: Koala vs Timber Industry, pictured here.
For more information on the PL❤NTS Exhibition, which is available to view online until the end of May, click here. All works are for sale and the exhibition will eventually be on physical, public display at Lion Gate Lodge in the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney from Sunday 19 July - Sunday 2 August 2020.
Julie’s piece is a timely artistic statement, coming at the very moment debate rages about continued logging of koala habitat in NSW and particularly near Nambucca Heads; despite last summer's devastating bushfires and the toll this has had on koala populations and koala habitat statewide.
As the Plants exhibition states - plants give us life. They make our air, our food, our clothes and our homes. Without them life would cease to exist. They are even more important to our iconic and much loved native animals. Can you imagine Australia without koalas? If you want to know what you can do to save currently threatened koala habitat then visit the Nature Conservation Council of NSW or jump on the Kalang River Forest Alliance Facebook page.