​Enclosed Garden
North Sydney Art Prize (finalist)
2019

M i c h e l l e   P e r r e t t

Enclosed Garden is a collection of porcelain sculptures of orchids and flowers. In Balls Head Reserve, Bootlace Orchids have flourished in this rehabilitated environment like ghosts from the past. This rare orchid has no leaves, only perfumed flowers that grow on dying Eucalypts. As a metaphor for survival it’s an astounding example of what nature can do. ​