BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.8.2//EN X-WR-CALNAME:ORCHIDACEOUS - Wild and Rare Tasmanian Flora X-WR-CALDESC:Salamanca Arts Centre X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Hobart BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Hobart BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 DTSTART:20251004T160000 TZNAME:AEDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Hobart BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 DTSTART:20251004T160000 TZNAME:AEDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ORCHIDACEOUS - Wild and Rare Tasmanian Flora DESCRIPTION:Deborah Wace\n\n\n\nExhibition Dates :Friday 19 December 202 5 - Sunday 4 January 2026Monday - Thursday 10:00am - 5:00pmFridays 10:00 am - 5:30pm \;Saturdays 9:30am - 4:00pmSundays 11:00am - 4:00pmCLOSE D Christmas Day**Friday 19 December 2025 OPEN 10:00am - 7:30pm\n\n\n\nOp ening Event : Friday 19 December 2025\, 5:30pm - 7:30pm\n\n\n\nThis inti mate collection of artwork\, fabric design\, and wallpaper\, creates a w indow into the botany of Tasmanian Native Orchids and wild plant communi ties. Exploring a narrative of plant collectors\, early naturalists\, an d deep connection to ecology and place. Art as advocacy\, reflects 30 ye ars of Deborah Wace's plant pressing and printmaking.ORCHIDACIOUS - Wild and Rare Tasmanian Flora\, is an exploration of the curious and bizarre world of Tasmanian native Orchids and some of the plant communities the y live among. The wild and the rare interconnected world of small plants and fungi support a thriving ecosystem\, in fragile often fragmented ha bitats\, at risk.\n\n\n\nIn this collection\, Deborah creates artwork dr awing on a personal botanical pressed specimen collection\, gathered ove r 30 years. This collection has been digitised at high resolution\, to c reate rich\, layered and complex botanical designs\, printed onto fine f abric and wallpapers\, substrates for glass\, and in limited edition fin e art\, using digital\, original dry point and monoprint printmaking tec hniques.\n\n\n\n• You will find wallpaper panels available on the roll for easy travel\, or mounted and framed by light and shade.• You can try on gorgeous silk satin scarves with many designs featuring Tasmanian flora and printmaking.• You can order artwork for application onto gl ass\, at scale.• You might like to take home small\, mounted\, one-off monoprints.• Garments created from repeat pattern silk and linen\, wi ll be on show.• Linen cushions and covers might tempt you.\n\n\n\nDebo rah uses her plant specimen collection and her printmaking to create an intersection between botany\, \; fine fabrics\, and interior design. Refreshing a conversation about ecology and threatened species and the protection of valuable ecological\, historical and cultural environments \n\n\n\nThese designs overflow with stories of Tasmania’s wild and end angered plant species\, of the need to protect this precious natural wor ld and of its connection to early French and modern naturalists\, contri buting to one of the deepest threads of human endeavour – Botanical Kn owledge.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeborah Wace is a Churchill Fellow\, a botanical artist &\; fabric designer\, ecological activist\, and professional printmaker \, teacher and singer from Tasmania. She creates original art work that is richly linked to the early Tasmanian and French botanical\, cultural and historical record. \;\n\n\n\nScattered through this th ree-week exhibition are Artist Talks\; opportunities for delving deeper through song and short film presentation about:• The French D’Entrec asteaux expedition visit to Recherche Bay in 1792/3• Deborah’s 2018 Churchill Fellowship. • Major film projects like ‘The Sartorial Nat uralist’\, featuring underwater swathes of silk with contemporary danc ers.• Her Gardening Australia ABC TV segment - Down your Garden Path(f ind more about these events via Facebook)\n\n\n\nHer work connects the d ots between Australia and France by referencing the earliest French scie ntific expeditions to Tasmania\, incorporating the art/science stories i nto songwriting and designs on fabric and wallpapers.\n\n\n\nUsing conte mporary artwork to democratise and deepen this historical narrative.\n\n \n\nDeborah was awarded a Churchill Fellowship that allowed her to acces s and reinterpret the botanical specimens and print collections located in Paris\, Florence\, Le Havre and Kew\, from the d’Entrecasteaux and Baudin expeditions to Tasmania\, into contemporary cultural motifs and A ustralian designs.\n\n\n\nThis melding of art and science\, along with h istory and culture\, amplifies the interconnection of us into nature and of each plant\, to each other.\n\n\n\nTasmania has a rich and diverse n ative orchid flora with over 200 species\, 71 endemic species\, 39 of wh ich are currently threatened. \;\n\n\n\nOrchids have evolved spectac ularly to suit their ecological niche. Highly targeted and accomplished mimics of the natural world\, some orchids evolve to resemble female was ps\, attracting the male wasp to mate with it in order to be pollinated. \n\n\n\nSome orchids emit a pheromone that is molecularly identical to t hat emitted by its target insect\, inviting cross species sex\, feeding its pollinator an ambrosia banquet!\n\n\n\nRich conversations go on unde rground at a mycorrhiza level\, specifically adapted fungi delivering nu trient for orchids to survive. Every orchid is reliant upon different ty pes of fungi\, bacteria\, pollinating insect\, habitat and climate.  \;\n\n\n\nThis is a heady artistic space! Come and be charmed by the wil d orchids revealed here. Some of the larger framed orchid drypoint print s are 2m tall\, scaled up across 4 plates\, printed and digitally stitch ed together to show the entire plant\, root-to-flower. You will never lo ok at the bush in the same way\, knowing tiny orchids are aware of you\, as you slow down to appreciate the small\, wild and rare Tasmanian flor a.\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility\n\n\n\nAccessible Toilet (located in the Cou rtyard)Registered Assistance Animals welcomeWheelchair Accessible\n\n\n\ n\n\n\nDeborah Wace. Orchid Vase (detail) (2023). Digital compilation fr om pressed plant and original drypoint/mono-print elements.\n\n\n\nDebor ah Wace. Fagus Buttongrass Circles (2023). Silk-Digital compilation from pressed plant and original drypoint/mono-print elements. 100cm x 100cm URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.sac.org.au/events/orchidaceous/ UID:urn:uuid:dc77b103-b668-4b79-a1f1-bfba2ce3c9e6 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260512T151952Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260104 LOCATION:67 Salamanca Place END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR