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Grasslands

Linda Tegg

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Part of Visual Arts series.

PRESENTED BY STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA IN ASSOCIATION WITH MELBOURNE FESTIVAL

This October, Melbourne artist and Library Fellow Linda Tegg orchestrates Grasslands, a grand meditation on nature versus culture at the State Library of Victoria. Working with experts at The University of Melbourne Department of Resource Management and Geography, Tegg selected a plethora of specially grown native plants and grasses with which to restore the imposing stone forecourt of the Library to an imagined primordial wilderness.

The result is a breathtaking reclamation of one of the city’s best-loved public spaces, which recalls nature past and provokes reflection on the inexorable march of progress in the name of culture.

Melbourne Festival Creative Associate - Visual Arts: Louise Neri

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. This project is also supported by The University of Melbourne, Department of Resource Management and Geography. Grasslands is the result of a Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship.

Image: Linda Tegg, Grasslands
(site test, State Library of Victoria), 2014