Title: Natural Exuberance - Coral tree Bark, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Park 11 Category: General Dimensions (cm): 152h x 102w x 4d Medium: Oil On Canvas Statement: This is a close-up 'portrait' of the bark patterns in the trunk of a mature coral tree in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Park 11, which inspire imperfect but discernible glimpses of all sorts of figures – wild creatures like monkeys and lions and storks, but also domestic animals like cows and mules. There's a human in the bark patterns too, her figure hiding an owl and a bird's profile. The exuberance of the coral tree's bark and of the

Title: Parklands River Red Gum (Eucalyptus Camaldulensis) Category: General Dimensions (cm): 66h x 46w Medium: Contemporary Bobbin Lace Worked With Hand Dyed Linen Thread Statement: The River Red Gum (Eucalyptus Camaldulensis) is a favourite tree of mine and whenever I travel through the Adelaide Park Lands to the CBD, I admire the trees on both sides of the road. I love to look at the directions of the branches and the patterns in the bark. They drive me to create my visual interpretation in bobbin lace. This is a pattern seen on the bark of one particular tree over 300 metres high in a moment

Title: Park Lands, Possums and Periwinkle Sky Category: General Dimensions (cm): 150h x 100w x 5d Medium: Oil On Canvas Statement: "Hidden in the darkness of the night and yet firmly engraved onto the Australian landscape, possums are a big part of Adelaide Park Lands. They always have been. And will be for times to come. Enduring, easily adapting to a new environment, possums are a continual presence here, unaffected by political, social or cultural changes.Within the stretches of the Park Lands, a small area honours these timid creatures. Pirltawardli, which roughly translates from Kaurna as Home of the Bush Tail Possum, which lived in

Title: Ruby Red Saltbush Category: Emerging Artist Dimensions (cm): 96h x 67w Medium: Cyanotype On Canvas Statement: "Possingham starts with a branch, flower, twig. They are scanned with 3D software, then manipulated, cutting them in the computer, playing with light, inverting the image and layering them over each other. She creates impossible scenarios: gum leaves growing from the same stem as a saltbush, haggard turning edges, light that bends in multiple directions. From this space of the intangible, the made, negatives are printed on transparencies. Fabric is painted with cyanotype chemicals, they cure, the transparencies are laid on top and they are taken outside for

Title: Herding Caterpillars - VR - The lifecycle of the Chequered Copper butterfly, in extended reality Category: Digital, Emerging Artist Dimensions (cm): 0h x 0w Medium: Virtual Reality Performance - To Be Experienced Through Oculus Quest 2 Headset. 360 Video And 3D Animation With Sound. Statement: Butterfly Conservation SA (BCSA) and Adelaide artist and creative producer Rosina Possingham are proud to have created Herding Caterpillars - an extended reality experience that explores the life cycle of the Chequered Copper butterfly. The combined Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) experiences allow audiences to get up close and personal with the life cycle of the rare