What is EcoArt?

EcoArt practice seeks to restore, protect and preserve the world for its own sake, and to mediate human/world relations to this end.

(Carruthers, 2006)

TreeLine aims to raise awareness of and evoke an emotional response to environmental issues through inter-disciplinary art practice.

TreeLine Aim

TreeLine projects will…

1.Identify and celebrate significant trees

2.Explore an environmental issue

3.Act out for the environment Lantana Wreath, Wendy McGrath

Valued by a school or kindy

What is a Significant Tree?

A tree of cultural heritage value

Bunya tree

A tree valued by neighbourhood or community

Moffat Beach Playground fig tree

A tree that characterises place

Cotton Tree, 1918

A commemorative tree or tree planting

Tree planting at Coolum, 1933

A tree important as part of an ecosystem

A tree in a significant location

Multi-arts Approach

Marion Gaemers, necklaces, Strand

Ephemera

Earth Song opening, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery

www.treeline.org.au

TreeLine Program

Lead Artist Program• Commissioned and

invited artists • Art in the environment • Exhibits in regional

galleries• Artists in Residence Keith Armstrong and James Muller

TreeLine Program

Community Program

• Workshops, happenings

• Selected community groups

• Palmwoods Piccabeen Celebration

• Barung Landcare’s Figs in the Forest Project

• Library program

TreeLine Program

TreeLine @ Program

Partnering with other events: • Bunya Festival• Eumundi Markets • SCRUFFFY Film Festival• Maleny Wood Expo• World Environment Day • Bankfoot House Open Day

Bunya Dreaming Festival

TreeLine ProgramTreeLine 4U – Get Involved

Projects developed by:• You• Schools• Individual artists• Community, environment

and heritage groups

Projects presented at treeline.org.au Community Project, Live Oak “Nest”

Hill of the Hawk, Big Sur, California

TreeLine Program

EcoArt Education• TreeLine website – www.treeline.org.au• EcoArt education materials online • Artists working with schools in and about the

environment • Tree Tales at the Book Farm• Artist in Residence – Currimundi Catchment

Care Group with schools• TreeMappa 2.0 with CQUniversity

Timeline• Present-January 2010 – fundraising, website,

eco-Art education, partnering.• December 2009 – Launch TreeLine Program • January 2010 – Launch at the Bunya Dreaming

Festival • February-May 2010 – Education and Community

program• 26 May to 4 July 2010 – Art in the environment

and projected exhibits in Caloundra and Noosa Regional Galleries and the Butter Factory, Cooroy.

TreeLine Legacy

• Online ecoArt education material

• Online documentation of TreeLine ecoArt projects

• Strengthened local art and environment networks

• Template for ecologically, economically and socially sustainable inter-disciplinary art event

Armstrong and Muller