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Image 1 of 1
Image 1 of 1
Image 1 of 1
Limited edition letterpress print
Some plants insist on more than one image.
When I began researching Walter Hill, Brisbane’s first colonial botanist, I became fascinated by the Bunya Bunya—Araucaria bidwillii—a remarkable tree native to Queensland.
The more I learned, the more compelling its story became.
The Bunya Bunya is a sacred tree for Aboriginal peoples, with groves traditionally held under particular tribal or family custodianship. It was also one of Walter Hill’s favourite trees. As curator of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, he planted an avenue of Bunya Bunyas that became a popular promenade in the late nineteenth century.
I could imagine people walking beneath those extraordinary trees.
But when I began making the work, the full form of the tree resisted me. It was too complex for the kind of pattern I wanted to create.
So I looked closer.
I found my answer in a single element: the female cone.
Bunya 1 became the first of six small works in which I played with that form—extracting it from the tree, repeating it and allowing it to become something else. Here, the cones gather into a simple circular arrangement, no longer quite botanical and beginning instead to feel like objects suspended in space.
There was something joyful about making these works. The forms reminded me of balloons or Christmas ornaments, an unexpected playfulness emerging from a plant with such a long and significant history.
Sometimes looking closer is all it takes to see something differently.
The Edition
Released in an edition of twenty, Bunya 1 is letterpress printed on Magnani Incisioni 650/5 Smooth White 100% cotton rag paper using rubber-based inks.
Each print is signed, titled and individually numbered on the reverse, wrapped in acid-free tissue and presented in a custom protective envelope. It is accompanied by information detailing the artwork, the Collected Patterns series and its place within the edition.
The print is sold unframed and ships worldwide in a rigid protective envelope.
Edition: 20
Paper size: 147 × 105 mm
Paper: Magnani Incisioni 650/5 Smooth White, 100% cotton rag
Printing: Letterpress with rubber-based inks
Press: Heidelberg Windmill
Signed: Signed, titled and numbered on reverse
Framing: Unframed
Shipping: Worldwide
Limited edition letterpress print
Some plants insist on more than one image.
When I began researching Walter Hill, Brisbane’s first colonial botanist, I became fascinated by the Bunya Bunya—Araucaria bidwillii—a remarkable tree native to Queensland.
The more I learned, the more compelling its story became.
The Bunya Bunya is a sacred tree for Aboriginal peoples, with groves traditionally held under particular tribal or family custodianship. It was also one of Walter Hill’s favourite trees. As curator of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, he planted an avenue of Bunya Bunyas that became a popular promenade in the late nineteenth century.
I could imagine people walking beneath those extraordinary trees.
But when I began making the work, the full form of the tree resisted me. It was too complex for the kind of pattern I wanted to create.
So I looked closer.
I found my answer in a single element: the female cone.
Bunya 1 became the first of six small works in which I played with that form—extracting it from the tree, repeating it and allowing it to become something else. Here, the cones gather into a simple circular arrangement, no longer quite botanical and beginning instead to feel like objects suspended in space.
There was something joyful about making these works. The forms reminded me of balloons or Christmas ornaments, an unexpected playfulness emerging from a plant with such a long and significant history.
Sometimes looking closer is all it takes to see something differently.
The Edition
Released in an edition of twenty, Bunya 1 is letterpress printed on Magnani Incisioni 650/5 Smooth White 100% cotton rag paper using rubber-based inks.
Each print is signed, titled and individually numbered on the reverse, wrapped in acid-free tissue and presented in a custom protective envelope. It is accompanied by information detailing the artwork, the Collected Patterns series and its place within the edition.
The print is sold unframed and ships worldwide in a rigid protective envelope.
Edition: 20
Paper size: 147 × 105 mm
Paper: Magnani Incisioni 650/5 Smooth White, 100% cotton rag
Printing: Letterpress with rubber-based inks
Press: Heidelberg Windmill
Signed: Signed, titled and numbered on reverse
Framing: Unframed
Shipping: Worldwide