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State Winner for 'Building Communities' in the Telstra Best of Business Awards 2024; State Winner for 'Promoting Sustainability' in the Telstra Best of Business Awards 2022
State Winner for 'Building Communities' in the Telstra Best of Business Awards 2024; State Winner for 'Promoting Sustainability' in the Telstra Best of Business Awards 2022

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  • Sketching flowers - Nicole Crosswell Artist Profile
    June 7, 2023

    ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Nicole Crosswell

    Nicole Crosswell is a practising visual artist, arts facilitator, and the scientific illustrator for The Queensland Herbarium at Mt. Coot-tha Botanical Gardens. Her arts practice embodies the phrase ‘to draw’; from contemporary manipulation of physical thread and line through to traditional methods of drawing and mark making. In both her professional and personal life is Nicole’s passion for the natural world and its dynamic evolution.
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  • ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Lesley Wallington
    June 2, 2023

    ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Lesley Wallington

    Lesley Wallington is a professional, award-winning artist and tutor with more than 30 years’ teaching experience. Her journey in water based media, through studies at the ANU School of Art has resulted in innovative approaches to her painting and competency across a range of mediums. With a background in Biology, Ecology and Mathematics Lesley brings together in her work, a love of art, science and nature.
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  • The Albany Pitcher Plant by Dr Anna Voytsekhovich
    March 31, 2023

    The Albany Pitcher Plant by Dr Anna Voytsekhovich

    Dr Anna Voysekhovich is an award-winning botanical artist and scientific illustrator based in Sydney. Her illustration of this beautiful Albany Pitcher Plant recently won the Best in Show at the BASA, and here is her story about this threatened plant species from Western Australia!
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  • An inclusive arts community space - Hive Studios Art Space!  - by Sandra Pearce
    January 8, 2023

    An inclusive arts community space - Hive Studios Art Space! - by Sandra Pearce

    Hive Studios is an exciting new arts space founded by local artists Lena Tisdall and Sandra Pearce, and is located in Banyo in the northern suburbs of Brisbane.  The Hive Studio space houses Sandra’s printmaking and papermaking studio Art from the Urban Wilderness, and is also open to the community and local artists to use for art workshops, studio hire and community events.  

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  • snake from Queensland
    November 30, 2022

    Trip to Atherton Tablelands and Kutini Payamu National Park, Cape York - 1 to 17 May 2020 - by Julie Lyne

    NatureArt Lab's 2020 seventeen-day journey to the far north Queensland regions of the Atherton Tablelands and Cape York revealed a wealth of biodiversity, but also the existential threats to habitat in many areas. From insects as beautiful as the Cairns Birdwing butterflies to giant stick insects and land snails, hundreds of birds from the tiniest fern wrens to the Southern Cassowary, from leaf-tailed geckos to Boyd's forest dragon, green tree frogs, saw-shelled turtles to crocodile tracks, platypus to northern spotted quoll and cus cus and my unexpected favourite - possums, striped, coppery brushtail, Herbert River, and green!
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  • nature objects and drawing
    November 23, 2022

    CELEBRATING NATURE CONNECTIONS: Create | Explore | Observe | Inspire at the Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Gardens … by Lynda Griffin

    Located in the heart of Kabi Kabi Country, the Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Gardens was the perfect location for a month-long celebration of art, nature and science, Celebrating Nature Connections. This event featured a showcase exhibition of creative works by the NatureArt Lab South-East Queensland branch tutors Libby Derham, Zoe Lawrence, Petra Meer, Danny McCreadie and Sandra Pearce, alongside an exciting program of events and workshops.

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  • Celebrating NatureArt Lab's Five-Year Anniversary!
    October 6, 2022

    Celebrating NatureArt Lab's Five-Year Anniversary!

    Website Redesign, Upcoming Classes and Big News! Since our establishment in 2017 we've grown an incredible community of staff and students. We have expanded our program offerings with a high quality series of foundation studies in drawing and watercolour plus...

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  • Captivated by Curlews - Peter Lindenmayer
    May 18, 2022

    Captivated by Curlews - Peter Lindenmayer

    Malishka – a Curlew comes back to our coast, is an illustrated children’s story, with some bird activities for kids and information for adults, written by author Peter Lindenmayer, and beautifully illustrated by Canberra NatureArt Lab artist Lesley Wallington. Available online from Wildlife Queensland – wildlife.org.au/shop . Proceeds from the sale support bird conservation organisations.

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