The Exceptional Tree Project 2025
In March, CRA launched The Exceptional Tree Project, a community arts project resulting in a small exhibition in the Galley art space on June 6.

Fiona Harding, an artist who is passionate about trees, has been asked to creatively develop and manage the project. The process will involve workshops, outings, interviews & discussions, all with a wide range of community input and creativity.
The exhibition may reflect 10 significant trees, their stories, their scientific explanations and their artistic representations and interpretations.

There may be a missing 'eleventh' tree.

There will be the Feature trees and the Humble trees, with an intention to bring forth a greater understanding and appreciation of these assets.
We hope to facilitate an indigenous connection in the early stages of development to broaden the community's understanding of trees from this perspective. We would also like to engage with the council's arborist team to develop an understanding of their practices to enable this project to productively benefit the community.
The project is very much about ‘research and develop' as we go, with the intention to have a very broad community reach and fun!

Exceptional Tree Election 4573 - vote here!

coolumartproject@gmail.com

The Exceptional Tree Project is supported by Sunshine Coast Council Division 9 discretionary fund.