Flowery prose on capturing flora

Sep

‘Telopa speciosissima’, Miss Maund & Benjamin Maund
(1837-42) Engraving on paper, hand coloured.

This beautiful image is the hero picture for the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s upcoming exhibition, Capturing Flora, which opens this Tuesday. Ballarat is in the midst of a spring fling, with its botanic gardens about to bloom, spring racing at the start gates and a flurry of farmers markets and design exchanges.

Details: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 – Sunday, December 02, 2012, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Timken Foundation Community Gallery, Mars Gallery, Ian Potter Foundation Gallery, Victor Gordon King Gallery

Admission: $12, Concession $8, Child and Gallery Member Free

capturingflora.com.au, visitballarat.com.au

Belle

Fear is found on a creaking glacier in the Caucasus mountains and joy is encapsulated in the perfect Shanghai dumpling.
And while I love a $500-a-night hotel room (who doesn’t?), sometimes the best stories are found in a $20 guesthouse.
With an eye always out for good markets and great street eats, I write travel news and features for the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne’s The Age newspapers, and features for whoever else asks. I have a particular soft spot for the wilds of the Middle East, scarves and carpets.
My articles and photographs have been published in a range of consumer magazines and newspapers in Australia and abroad, and I chat about travel on radio, too, to ABC Australia or 3AW or the Irish Times.
I also host the travel podcast The World Awaits - take a listen https://theworldawaits.au

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Flowery prose on capturing flora

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