Lea Turto, “The Sacred Realm of the Forest Elf” / “Hiidenvaltakunta” 2005, consists of 11 tree stumps covered with red felt, dotted in one area of the forest. Installed at Helsinki, Central Park (forest).
Lea cut the felt to shape as you would with a garment, both to reveal and to cover the shapes of the roots and tree stumps. With this work Lea examines the spiritual meaning of the forest, the pantheistic connection with nature that her Finnish culture is rooted in. Read more about this work here.

Marja Hakala, “Nimeä uudelleen” / “Rename it”, made of T-shirts / leikatut T-paidat, installed at Kivinokka, Helsinki.
Marja collected second hand and discarded t-shirts then cut out the a circle shaped where the logo appears, then stretched the t-shirts between trees. The red of the t-shirts and the green of the environment contrast – the grass will eventually grow up inside the cut out sections to replace the logos. The cut out holes are also stretched and attached together nearby – without context the viewer can rename the whole work again. Artist website here.

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Nicky Hepburn, Cuttlefish, Seed Pods, Galls II, Bark, 2007, cuttlefish, found seed pods, steel, tree bark. From the NETS Victoria touring exhibition, Walk, on show at Burnie Regional Gallery until 14 September. Image courtesy the artist. Photograph by Terence Bogue.

“Walk presents the work of eight Australian artists – Peter Corbett, Vicki Couzens, Nicky Hepburn, Brian Laurence, Jan Learmonth, Carmel Wallace, Ilka White and John Wolseley. At the heart of this exhibition is a 250 kilometre trek along the Great South West Walk, an increasingly endangered natural environment cradled in the far south-west corner of Victoria. For three weeks, this group of artists walked through forest and river, estuary and bay to create work in response to their experience of an ever-shifting environment.”

“Art expressing its relation to land, this exhibition is an invitation to discover what new meanings we are making of this place – to figure our relationship to the land, understand how the connections between inhabitant and eco-system may be meaningfully re-established.”

Walk is a NETS Victoria touring exhibition that features around 40 works of contemporary art, craft, sound and video art. The show tours to Burnie Regional Gallery (TAS) 15 August 2008 – 14 September 2008, Riddoch Art Gallery (SA) 18 October 2008 – 30 November 2008, Flinders University Art Museum (SA) 6 February 2009 – 20 March 2009 and Bunbury Regional Art Galleries (WA) 2 May – 16 June 2009