Planting Dreams: audio guides

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We invited Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones, Bunurong author Bruce Pascoe and guest curator Richard Aitken to share their thoughts about some of the Library's collection items, on display in  Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens. 

Audio icon and image of Lewin watercolour of Bathurst plains

Hear Jonathan Jones on Lewin's The Plains, Bathurst

Audio icon and image of an old colour Kodak slide of people walking down a path with flower beds on either side.

Hear Richard Aitken on the Hallams slide collection.

Audio icon and image of painting of Government House & Sydney Harbour

Hear Bruce Pascoe on Peacock's Government House and Fort Macquarie from the Botanical Gardens

An audio icon and image of the Garden Palace

Hear Jonathan Jones on Richardson's Garden Palace, Sydney

Audio icon with photograph of book open to page reading: An Essay on Humane Understanding

Hear Richard Aitken on Locke's An Essay on Humane Understanding

Audio icon and image of painting of a shepherd tending his flock on the edge of an expansive valley of green pastural land.

Bruce Pascoe on von Guerard's Stoneleigh, Beaufort near Ararat, Victoria

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Jonathan Jones on Lewin's 'The Plains'