29 June to 15 September 2007
Initially it was developed around a number of documentary photographs from the City of Melbourne's Art and Heritage Collection – photographs of trees being planted, tended, shaped and repaired, and of trees destroyed and trees cut up. These curious images suggested nature metamorphosing into bizarre art forms.
From the cultural end, a selection of sculptures, prints and drawings by eight contemporary artists formed a complementary element to the documentary photographs. The works of Robert Bridgewater, Julie Gough, Lucy Griggs, Kristin Headlam, Vin Ryan, Andrew Seward, Catherine Truman and Kim Westcott seemed to aspire to the condition of wood, branches, twigs and leaves.