As part of this year’s SALA South Australia’s Living Artists Festival, the National Wine Centre of Australia is hosting an exhibition featuring art inspired by the nature of Kangaroo Island.

How do we love thee? Let us count the ways…
KI grass tree & green carpenter bee

Cath Canlon, Burrowing. Photo: Fine Art KI

Fine Art Kangaroo Island presents exciting new work by exceptionally talented, celebrated and emerging artists, interconnected by an extraordinary sense of place. 21 artists combine fascinating art with pristine natural environment to depict the vulnerable native bee and its reliance on the enigmatic, slow growing Xanthorrhoea. Remarkable for large areas of remnant vegetation, the island hosts a diversity of unique ecosystems, which provide refuge for this beautiful endangered buzz pollinator and rare tufted grass tree.

A wide variety of media are exhibited, ranging from jewelry and sculpture, to prints, painting and photographs.

The exhibition runs until 28 August 2016. Opening hours are: Mon–Fri 8am–9pm, Sat & Sun 9am–9pm.

On Tuesday, 23 August, 11:30am, Fleur Peters from Fine Art Kangaroo Island will give a brief exhibition talk for staff, Hon. Associates, volunteers and friends of the State Herbarium of South Australia (meeting point is at the café).

The State Herbarium of South Australia is happy to be hosting another Fungal Identification Workshop—being run by Pam Catcheside on 17 May 2016. This will be a one day workshop with a strictly limited number of places.

The workshop is designed for those who may be involved in the collection, identification and documentation of fungi or who might encounter fungi in the course of their work or research.

There are only a few places remaining, so if you’re interested in attending please apply via the online registration form soon, we will contact you by email as soon as places have been allocated.

On 14–15 April, 2016 a special symposium to celebrate the Past, Present and Future of Botanical Research associated with the State Herbarium of South Australia will be held as a part of the SA NRM Science Conference. Following the symposium, a special issue of the then, newly renamed journal Swainsona will be published containing short review papers of many of these presentations.

Botany 2016 — Past, present and future

Convenor: Michelle Waycott, Chief Botanist, State Herbarium of South Australia

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A symposium celebrating more than 60 years of the State Herbarium of South Australia.

On Thursday and Friday the 14–15 April, 2016, the SA NRM Science Conference will host a special symposium to celebrate the Past, Present and Future of Botanical Research associated with the State Herbarium of South Australia. Some 26 presentations will be given, many of which will be available via live streaming if you can’t be there in person: here are the details on live streaming access.

The symposium covers diverse topics from the history of botanical collections, the botanical gardens, the Waite Arboretum and other collections in the state, palaeo-botany, molecular genetics, vegetation historical reconstruction, the seed bank, lichens, bryophytes, vascular plant diversity and some of the interesting plants that exist in South Australia, and more… Details of the symposium are available now.

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