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Planting Dreams: Grand Garden Designs

‘I always enjoy photographing gardens because nature provides you with compositions that are truly unique … The challenge is to take the audience there via a photograph, so they feel they have a genuine understanding of the garden.’

Photographer, Nicholas Watt, 2016

PAST EXHIBITION

Exhibition

Saturday 3 September 2016 to Monday 17 April 2017

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Admission: Free

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Location

Exhibition Galleries

State Library of New South Wales

1 Shakespeare Place

Sydney

NSW

2000

Australia

Planting Dreams: Grand Garden Designs

‘I always enjoy photographing gardens because nature provides you with compositions that are truly unique … The challenge is to take the audience there via a photograph, so they feel they have a genuine understanding of the garden.’

Photographer, Nicholas Watt, 2016

Hand written text states: Planting Dreams, set within a circle of watercolour shapes of leaves.

This exhibition showcases the creativity and passion of some of Australia’s leading landscape designers through a series of specially commissioned photographs of larger, innovative private and public gardens in NSW. The gardens are ‘grand’ in the sense that they are the result of an enormous passion, vision and determination on the part of both the owners and designers to create something out of the ordinary. The photographs, taken by some of our leading garden photographers, capture the essence of contemporary landscape design across the state.

A photograph of a garden. Flowers and a lake sit in the foreground, with lush green grass backing onto a dry paddock in the background.

A photograph of a bathtub sitting in a garden, surrounded by plants and grasses. The ocean can be seen beyond the garden and the edge of a house sits in the left of the image.

A photograph of a large metal sculpture of interlocking circles stacked vertically. The sculpture sit in a garden, with a house in the background.

A photograph of a garden of low bushes with mountains in the distance.

A photograph of a public park - two fig trees frame the image, people walk through the park and multi-story buildings appear in the background.

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