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NOVEMBER, 2020
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IN THE FAMILY BALMATTUM Australian White Sheep Stud is more than just a business venture for farm manager Richard Boadle. It is a labour of love, and a tribute to his conviction in the breed, and perhaps most importantly it represents the transition of his family back onto the land and the farming life he loves. With daughter Kristen and son-in-law Grant the owners of Balmattum, the family with children William and Sissy now call Euroa home. Turn to page 4 for story.
Artists with Regenerative Farmers share vision of better future By EMMA OLIVER LINKING leading Australian landscape artists with regenerative farmers in Southern New South Wales, Earth Canvas: Art in Ag is a ground breaking exhibition, which opened at the Albury LibraryMuseum on October 24. With the exhibition running through until February 7, 2021, the body of work then goes on the road until 2022 visiting regional galleries in surrounding states before finishing up at the Australian National Museum in Canberra. From Swan Hill to Wagga
Wagga, Mildura to Mount Gambier, from Tamworth to Griffith, the 70 artworks by seven different artists will visit a total of nine galleries. Curated by the Albury LibraryMuseum, supported by the National Museum of Australia and assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program, the exhibition showcases striking new work by prominent Australian landscape artists Ros Atkins, Jenny Bell, Jo Davenport, Janet Laurence, Tony Nott, Idris Murphy and John Wolseley. Artists were invited onto
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properties to engage with a landscape managed from a regenerative farming perspective with the resulting artworks demonstrating that good land management is part of climate solution. Situated between the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers in Southern New South Wales, the six participating properties - Mundarlo, Mt Narra Narra, Eurimbla, Yabtree West, Yammacoona and Bibbaringa - vary in size with some of the bigger ones encompassing up to 20,000 acres of land under regeneration.
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Cattle, sheep or cropping are the main sources of income on the properties, and the diversity of the landscape and the purpose were all taken into consideration when matching artists with farmers. With the farmers providing more than a residency for the project, the initiative was designed to be a collaboration between farmer and artist, and so a great deal of consideration was placed on matching personalities and ideals. Gillian Sanbrook, one of the driving forces behind the Earth Canvas project, discussed with the farmers what sort of art they
liked to also ensure a good match, and the resulting artworks speak for themselves as both artists and farmers bonded strongly during the process, and a sense of connection to the land is evident in all the images. Incredibly passionate on the subject of regenerative farming, Gillian Sanbrook has spent a lifetime farming thoughtfully with the last 13 years dedicated to regenerating the 950 acres that is Bibbaringa, a cattle property in Booma on the South West Slopes of the Wymah Valley in New South Wales. ■ Continued page 8
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