2021

Albert Park Art Walk

26 - 28 March 2021 | Victoria Avenue Albert Park

Whilst garden gnomes are banned from the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show, they are far from banned in the St Kilda VegOut Community Gardens. In 2019 Janita Ryan conducted a census of the incumbent VegOut Gnomes, unearthing and documenting various stressors within their community, not least of which, they are all male. 

No-one ever seems to talk about this. Ryan ponders, why are only male spirits are authorised to mediate for a good harvest from the female power that is Mother Nature? In a recent series of Gnome portraits she highlights the tensions, stressors and aberrant behaviour occurring within the gnome community of the St kilda VegOut Community Gardens.