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Teeming with Life The Wongaloo Project
Pamela Griffith
14 July - 20 August
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
In 2014 artist Pamela Griffith visited Clevedon / Cromarty protected wetlands 30 km South of Townsville. Some of the most extensive water-bird habitat in Australia occurs between Giru and Cleveland Bay. Wide expanses of shallow sedge swamps lie sheltered from Bowling Green Bay to the North East by heavily vegetated beach ridges. Salt pans fringed with mangroves and marine plains covered with salt-tolerant herbs and grasses separate the sedge swamps from the tidal influence of coastal streams to the north and south. Fresh water areas on the northern and western portions of the swamp are covered almost entirely by dense bright green stands of bulkuru sedge.
These merge into tall coarse dark beds of club rushes that dominate the brackish water areas on the seaward side and fringe a long serpentine channel that follows the steep slopes of Mount Elliot. This area, with Wongaloo Regional Park at the core is seen by many thousands of travellers passing along the Bruce Highway that runs beside the Mt Elliot range. This is the subject of Pamela Griffith’s exhibition.
Spotted Bower Bird [detail] 2015
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