‘Tree is Life’ traveling art installation in Aid of TreeSisters is a collaboration between artists Ursula Dutkiewicz, Tessa Wylde, Karen Hopkins, Xenica Douglas, Deborah Punton and The Flowering Heart Project.

Why art, trees and collaboration

I am a passionate long time member of Treesisters a global network of women who are committed to the restoration of our forests and the re balancing of humanity’s relationship with the natural world. TreeSisters has always been an open invitation in how we can co-create together on behalf of life, nature and the trees. I came up with an idea to create a traveling art installation in collaboration with other women artists that could be used to support, promote and raise funds in aid of TreeSisters by planting trees in the tropics. We gathered on a beautiful Melbourne day under the shade of a big gum tree and using charcoal, ocher from the central Australia desert and various other paints the five of us spent the day creating together our two by two and a half meter canvas painting. This Link will take you to TreeSisters and information about it’s reforestation strategy that we are supporting. www.treesisters.org/home/trees

Below you can follow the installation’s progress

Where to Now?- 2020 Dates to be announced

Believe you can make a difference

I started 2019 with a dream to gather some women artists in a collaborative art project that could be use as a traveling art installation to raise funds in aid of TreeSisters: women seeding change, and their mission in reforesting the tropics. Here we are at the end of the year and through our efforts we have funded the planting of over 12,000 trees. This has been a wonderful collaboration between my Flowering Heart Project, and artists Karen Hopkins, Xenica Douglas, Deborah Punton, Tessa Wylde and me, Ursula Dutkiewicz. Very excited by what we have achieved, helping us in becoming a restorer species and giving back to the planet. Remember Green Hearts grow trees and if you would like to join in get in touch.

Email: ursula@ursuladutkiewicz.com

Officially Launched 19-03-2019

The launch was a wonderful gentle evening that brought us together for the first time with our creation. We were able to see what is possible and how the work acts as an interactive art work. We asked people to write messages of support on leaves they could then place on the art work, some examples below. Present were artists Ursula Dutkiewicz,Tessa Wylde, Xenica Douglas, Deborah Punton and we were sadly missing Karen Hopkins whom could not attend. 600 trees will be going in the ground through TreeSisters from the generosity of those whom attended with 15 green hearts walking out the door.

 ‘Tree is Life’ Launch 18-03-2019