Endemic plants and environmental art: a new gallery aims to rebuild tourism in Victoria’s Grampians
Hopes the 16-hectare garden and gallery site near Halls Gap will be ‘a green shoot of recovery’ in the bushfire-affected regionSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterA new art gallery dedicated to environmental art has been heralded as a “green shoot of recovery” for tourism in the...
<p>Hopes the 16-hectare garden and gallery site near Halls Gap will be ‘a green shoot of recovery’ in the bushfire-affected region</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/14/sign-up-for-rural-network-guardian-australia-email-newsletter-about-regional-affairs?CMP=cvau_sfl">Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletter</a></p></li></ul><p>A new art gallery dedicated to environmental art has been heralded as a “green shoot of recovery” for tourism in the Grampians, after the region was hit with bushfires two summers in a row.</p><p>The Wama Foundation, built 10 minutes outside western Victoria’s Halls Gap, three hours’ drive from Melbourne, opened in July. Stage one of the 16-hectare project is the National Centre for Environmental Art and surrounding endemic botanic gardens and native grasslands.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/14/sign-up-for-rural-network-guardian-australia-email-newsletter-about-regional-affairs?CMP=copyembed">Sign up to receive Guardian Australia’s fortnightly Rural Network email newsletter</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/24/endemic-plants-environmental-art-new-gallery-tourism-victoria-grampians">Continue reading...</a>
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