OUR CURRENT EXHIBITION
Broadhurst Gallery at The Hazelhurst Arts Centre 782 Kingsway, Gymea NSW, Australia CONTACT: e: hazelhurst@ssc.nsw.gov.au ph: 02 8536 5700
FREE ART WORKSHOPS – FEBRUARY 8th
10-12pm – artist Elizabeth-Anne Gervay will facilitate this session, Drawing Colours of the Canopy. Materials will be provided and booking is necessary as numbers are limited to 15.
2-4pm – artist Amanda Farquharson will be running this afternoon session on Tree Creatures using natures gifts and recycled materials. Materials will be provided and booking is necessary as numbers are limited to 15.
Whispers from the Canopy showcases recent works by 26 members of the Tree Veneration Society. The exhibition invites visitors to consider the quiet, enduring presence of trees in our lives and landscapes, seen through each artist’s unique attention and perspective.
Trees are more than a backdrop; they are living witnesses to change, memory, and resilience. From towering bushland giants to familiar backyard gums, they shape our connection to place and time. Whispers from the Canopy asks: What have the trees seen? And what might they tell us, if we paused to listen?
Art plays a vital role in deepening our understanding of nature. While humans have always felt nature’s presence, sometimes as threat, sometimes as resource, artists help us look again, revealing what is essential in our relationship with the natural world. Through their work, we are invited to share moments of wonder, reflection, or tension experienced in that exchange.
The Tree Veneration Society hopes visitors will discover their own sense of interconnectedness with the beautiful, mysterious, essential, and at times formidable natural world.
For more information visit: https://hazelhurst.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au
About the Tree Veneration Society
The Tree Veneration Society Inc is a registered charity and transdisciplinary, contemporary eco-arts collective based in Sydney, dedicated to trees, their ecosystems, and human interactions with them.
Mission
We aim to inspire our audience to respect the natural world and commit to protecting it. We do this by offering sensorial experiences with nature through our intergenerational workshops, combining environmental education with art, and our multidisciplinary exhibitions and events.
Our collective commitment ensures we are a catalyst for change. We draw on the power of nature and art to transcend culture and language barriers, to pull diverse communities together, and facilitate inclusivity. We create space for reflection, conversation and action.
Vision
Our vision is to foster a society that appreciates and protects trees and nature and understands the value they offer all living beings. We educate about the vital, life enhancing, yet often intangible services that trees offer human societies and make apparent their importance to the non-human species that inhabit, feed and live off them.
What we do
We deliver an annual exhibition entitled Arboreal Narratives; each iteration varies to include diverse forms of communication – other artforms, specialist speakers, and community workshops. Our artists offer ongoing classes and performances as required. Our workshop facilitators have Working with Children clearance and we have public liability insurance.
Short and long term plans
Going forwards, our short-term plan is to extend our programming to spaces in Western Sydney and further afield. Longer term plans include a touring program to regional centres in NSW with an emphasis on public engagement.
Collaborate with us
We have charity status and operate with ethics, respect, compassion, innovation and quality in all that we do. We have a growing membership that includes not only artists, but also scientists, poets, musicians, teachers and others, all bound together by one commonality: a love and respect for trees and nature.