Paddington Reservoir

Lush, green and sometimes a little weird

The video was a cross-country survey of eight NSW grand gardens, from the sub-tropical rainforest garden in the hinterland of Byron Bay to the new world climbing gardens on the old Kent Brewery site in Sydney.

Art and culture are not always about beauty but when it’s there in front of your camera it’s hard to resist – as in this film for the State Library of NSW exhibition as part of bicentennial celebrations for the Botanic Gardens of Sydney.