The Occasional Journal
The Dendromaniac
March 2015
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Editorial
Alice Tappenden, Ann Shelton, Jessica Hubbard -
For the trees
Rachel Buchanan -
dwelling trees, tree dwellings
Xin Cheng -
Axis Mundi: Long Live the Tree of Life
Prudence Gibson, Tessa Laird -
Forest satyagraha
Robyn Maree Pickens -
Garden City
Holly Best -
Accentuated Breath
Clare Hartley McLean -
On the portraiture of mushrooms
Creek Waddington -
Shade
Andrea Gardner -
bigwoods
Emil McAvoy -
Regan Gentry: Transformer and Master of Time
Sharon Taylor-Offord -
Colonisation versus conservation: a colonial view
Rebecca Rice -
Tae
Bridget Reweti -
The Framing of the Earth
Richard Shepherd -
Wildness in the Garden of Empire
Shaun Matthews -
In search of unknown vandals
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Thomasin Sleigh -
Bo.tan.i.cal: from the Greek
Jessica Hubbard -
The Tree as Traveller: Sakura in space, kōwhai in Chelsea, and the oldest pohutukawa in Spain
Emma Ng -
Seeing the wood and the trees: a complicating history of Hitler’s Oaks
Ann Shelton -
Conversations with Cripplewood
Cat Auburn -
Out of the Woods: The Return of Twin Peaks
Alice Tappenden, Matt Plummer -
The conceptual, the pastoral, and the plainly freakish (or, some of my favourite artworks are trees…)
Martin Patrick -
This is a femme slam.
Sian Torrington -
Explorations
Christian Nyampeta -
Works from the series An Ethnography on Gardening, 2006-2008
Raul Ortega Ayala -
Bent
Jonathan Kennett, Mary Macpherson -
One Shining Gum / Savia Brillante
Christina Barton, Maddie Leach, Zara Stanhope -
Acknowledgments
Alice Tappenden, Ann Shelton
Wildness in the Garden of Empire
Shaun Matthews
About the author
Shaun Matthews is a Wellington-based photographic artist whose work has engaged with New Zealand’s native forests since he moved to New Zealand from the UK in 2002. Shaun completed a Bachelor of Design in Photography (1st class Hons) at Massey University in 2013. His first solo exhibition Lest We Go Ashore was at Toi Poneke in August 2014, since 2009 he has participated in various group exhibitions in Wellington at Toi Poneke, The Engine Room, Photospace and Blackmore Jean Gallery.