Where the Wild Things Grow – Living Botanical Still Lifes

The artworks in Pamela Pauline's latest series, entitled Where the Wild Things Grow – Living Botanical Still Lifes explore the exquisite diversity and fragility of Australia's native flora and fauna through contemporary still life compositions. Drawing inspiration from the Dutch Golden Age painters, Pamela reimagines the genre using only Australian species – those that were absent from the still life of the seventeenth and eighteenth centures.  Each work is meticulously constructed from hundreds of her photographs taken of living collections in the bush, at botanic gardens and conservation sanctuaries across Australia.  Many of these species are threatened with extinction and brought together in carefully balanced arrangements that speak of beauty, loss and resilience.