Craft ACT Artist-in-residence 2014: Bogs and Fens

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Above: Nil Desperandum Homestead, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve. Photography, Art Atelier Photography. Enthusiastic engagement with the audience during the panel discussion brought further awareness to and interest in bogs and fens, as well as the cross‐sector interplay between craft, science and the environment. Ideas and information were shared freely across disciplines on current environmental protection and conservation initiatives. As Judy West stated, ‘the program has highlighted the different and complementary ways that an artist and an ecologist/botanist might interpret the same features of a bog – bringing together two very different conservation stories.’ Gwenyth Macnamara Curator of Public Programs Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre Forum speakers Welcome presentations Avi Amesbury, Executive Director, Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre Brett McNamara, Regional Manager, National Parks & Catchments, ACT Parks & Conservation Service Judy West, Executive Director, Australian National Botanic Gardens Master of Ceremonies Andrea Ho, ABC 666 Local Radio Content Manager Keynote speaker Professor Geoffrey Hope, BSc (Hons), MSc (Melb), PhD (ANU), DSc (Melb) PAGE 24
Bogs and Fens: a rtist-in-residence Geoffrey Hope is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Natural History; Visiting Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society at ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. At present, he is studying the recovery of the mountain bogs since the SE Australian fires of 2003 and the long term history of large sedge fens in the ACT in relation to archaeology and climate change. Hope recently mapped the peat-forming bogs and fens in the ACT and the Snowy Mountains. Speakers David Whitfield David Whitfield has been a ranger with the ACT Parks & Conservation Service for over 20 years. In 2005, he became responsible for the continuation of the on-ground works to restore selected sub alpine Sphagnum peat bogs, that had been affected by the dramatic bushfires of 2003. Above: Satoshi Fujinuma with visitors at the artist-in-residence open day, Gudgenby Ready-Cut Cottage, Namadgi National Park. Photography: Art Atelier Photography. PAGE 25
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