Held: 10am-2:30pm | Saturday 16 and 23 August 2025
Location: Bouddi Bouddi National Park
Participants: Bouddi Bushcare and Bouddi National Park/Maitland Bay Information Centre volunteers
Led by: Jaymie Maley

In these two workshops participants met in Bouddi National Park to interpretively ‘draw’ an Angophora tree using wire.

Inspiration was taken from the glorious sculptural Angophora tree towards the beginning of Bullimah Spur track (5-minute walk from the centre – ask inside for a map!).

Using their bare hands, participants created individual sculptures that embodied the movement of their maker in response to the tree.

These wire ‘drawings’ formed the skeletal bases for the sculptures developed in later workshops.

Over a series of workshops that followed, the ‘bodies’ of the tree sculptures were formed around the wire skeletons using recycled plastics.

The outer layer, the ‘bark’, was made with Angophora-dyed recycled paper pulp. Each of the participating artists chose how to represent the bark – some through the cicatrice (coloured scar patterns of the trees), others with smooth or rough texture.

The workshops produced sculptural pieces brought together in a community art installation exhibited at Maitland Bay Information Centre from October 2025 and continuing until April 2026

Held: Opening Event 3pm Saturday 4th of October, exhibition continues until February 2026
Venue: Maitland Bay Information Centre (in the bay window)

Held: 10am-2:30pm | Friday 10 October 2025
Location: Mingaletta Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Hub, Umina Beach
Participants: Mingaletta community and volunteers
Led by: Jita Singh

Guided by Creative Indian Dancer Jita Singh, participants connected with the unique forms and movement of Angophora Costata trees through dance.

Held: 10am-2:30pm | Friday 10 October 2025
Location: Mingaletta Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Hub, Umina Beach
Participants: Mingaletta community and volunteers
Led by: Jaymie Maley

In this session Jaymie Maley worked with participants from Mingaletta Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Hub and Fairhaven Disability to co-create gestural works on paper responding to the forms and textures of Angophora trees.

Held: Fridays 17th, 24th and 31st of October, 10-12:30pm
Group: Mingaletta Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Hub
Location: Mingaletta, Umina Beach
Led by: Jaymie Maley

Using the wire ‘drawings’ formed in earlier workshops as the skeletal bases for the sculptures,

Over a series of workshops participants used recycled plastics to form the ‘bodies’ of tree sculptures. The sculptures were formed around the wire ‘drawings’ made by Bush Care volunteers in earlier workshops.

The outer layer of the sculpture, the ‘bark’, was made with Angophora-dyed recycled paper pulp.

Each of the participating artists chose how to represent the bark – some through the cicatrice (coloured scar patterns of the trees), others with smooth or rough texture.

The workshops produced sculptural pieces brought together in a community art installation exhibited at Maitland Bay Information Centre from October 2025 and continuing until April 2026.

11:00 – 2pm at Mingaletta, Umina Beach
Friday 28th of December 2025

Jaymie Maley will produce a series of ‘portraits’ of local Angophora trees in situated in Bouddi National Park. The chosen trees will be selected by Bushcare volunteers significant to them. They will also be along walking trails throughout Bouddi National Park.

One of the tree portraits will be donated to the Maitland Bay Information Centre, Bouddi National Park. Visitors will be able to use a map available at the Information Centre to find the tree within the National Park.