Issue #04

Family/Tree / 2023

This issue of Wonderground is overflowing with inspiring, exciting and cup-filling ideas, stories and conversations. Just like a healthy forest ecosystem, there’s a diversity of light and dark, hope and wonder. In fact, consider the fourth issue of Wonderground a forest itself – a window into worlds personal and mythical, ideas alive and ageless; a place mysterious and mad, meaningful and beautiful.

Up the Back

Award-winning author Inga Simpson dusts off her wildest self among trampled trees, thistles and birdsong.

Tree Rites 

A new project grows ritual, connection and trees on Sydney’s streets.

Undercurrent

Tanya Massy walks upstream with Richard Swain, amid questions of custodianship and Country.

Good Country

Georgina Reid remembers a childhood planting trees.

Acts Of Co-Creation

Artist Sammy Hawker gives voice and visual expression to the more-than-human worlds that vibrate around, and with, us.

Gardening The Silence

Jane Gleeson-White faces dark histories of war and trauma with help from an olive tree.

Root and Branch

Neha Kale profiles three artists who re-imagine ideas of kinship and ask us to look closely at ties that bind.
Quandong (Santalum acuminatum) fruit.

Karnpuka

Zena Cumpston explores the power of plants to open up connections to Country, culture and ancestral knowledge.

Laws of Nature

Jess Bineth talks power and possibility with a lawyer on a mission to gain legal protection for Australia’s natural wonders.

Migrants

Stéph Donse questions of trees and family, movement and meaning.

Canoe

A poem by Ali Cobby Eckerman. Introduced by Paul Kelly.
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