An urban quest for chlorophyll
Editors - Jenny Gillam & Dieneke Jansen
Rim Books, Auckland, 2013
Edited by Jenny Gillam & Dieneke Jansen, the book includes projects by Tanya Eccleston and Monique Redmond working as the Suburban Floral Association; Amanda Yates, leader of AUT University’s Emergent Ecologies Lab which focuses on urban design, indigeneity and ecology; Gillam & Jansen, artist/academics who co-authored a public photographic work; as well as texts by Lara Strongman, a writer, curator, and art historian based in Christchurch; Kate Linzey, a Wellington-based academic with an interest in the margins between architecture, art and urbanism; and a conversation between Yates and colleagues Andrew Douglas and Sue Gallagher.
Mark Amery, an arts editor, curator, critic, broadcaster and writer with a particular engagement with art in public spaces, provides a foreword.
Related projects:
Shopfront, 2011. Photo - Suburban Floral Association
Pop-up Garden, 2012. Photo - Amanda Yates
Ever Green, 2012. Photo - Dieneke Jansen
Post-disaster gardening, 2013. Flower Tree, Elmwood Shops, Christchurch, Winter 2012. Photo - Lara Strongman