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Wendy Whiteley: The Secret Garden

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Wendy Whiteley’s secret garden has delighted the public for almost 30 years. But what about the woman behind the garden?

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In this Spring Fling event, Wendy Whiteley digs deep into her own remarkable story in an intimate conversation with her biographer Ashleigh Wilson, spanning creativity, connection and the significance of the natural world.

Whiteley will reflect on her own artistic pursuits, life before and after she met her artist husband Brett Whiteley, her journey to creating the iconic Secret Garden on Sydney Harbour, and her lifelong passion for nature.

Don’t miss the only Melbourne event celebrating Wendy Whiteley’s fascinating forthcoming memoir, A Year with Wendy Whiteley: Conversations about Art, Life and Gardening.

This event will be photographed and recorded for use by the Wheeler Centre.

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Wheelchair accessible

Accessible toilets available

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The bookseller for this event is Readings.

 

About Spring Fling

Celebrating our return to the stage and the rejuvenation of the arts and culture communities, Spring Fling is a short series of big ideas offering a delectable picnic spread of events with leading thinkers, writers and creators from Australia and abroad.

Spring Fling is supported by the Melbourne City Revitalisation Fund, a Victorian Government and City of Melbourne partnership.

Spring Fling 2022

Featuring

Wendy Whiteley

Wendy Whiteley OAM is a cultural icon, guerilla gardener, designer and philanthropist. She has lived at Lavender Bay for more than 50 years, the first two decades with her husband, the artist Brett Whiteley, and their daughter Arkie. Born Wendy Julius, she is the great-granddaughter of CY O’Co... Read more

Ashleigh Wilson

Ashleigh Wilson is a journalist who worked at The Australian for two decades, including as arts editor. His series on unethical behaviour in the Aboriginal art industry won a Walkley Award and led to a senate inquiry. He is the author of Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing (2016) and On... Read more

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The Wheeler Centre

176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000

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The Wheeler Centre acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which the Centre stands. We acknowledge and pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their Elders, past and present, as the custodians of the world’s oldest continuous living culture.