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Pamela Pauline Photography

Pamela Pauline is an award winning photographic artist. Photographic Artist

26/05/2026

For the past decade I've been creating photographic artworks that celebrate Australia's extraordinary native flora and fauna.
I'm delighted to finally be bringing this work together in a book.
Where the Wild Things Grow will feature over 140 pages of images, stories and reflections on beauty, biodiversity and conservation.
Pre-orders now available for $90 (RRP $140).

Orders can be placed at:
https://www.pamelapauline.com/preorder-page

10/04/2026

I am excited to share that my Where the Wild Things Grow: Living Botanical Still Lifes is now open at The Garden Gallery in the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Open Daily from 10-4 through the 26th of April. I look forward to sharing my work.

03/04/2026

When the great Dutch and Flemish still-life paintings of the seventeenth century were created, the plants and birds of Australia were unknown to European science and art. Maps such as Abraham Ortelius’s Typus Orbis Terrarum (1570) show the southern hemisphere as Terra Australis Nondum Cognita — “the southern land not yet known.”
While European painters filled their compositions with flowers gathered through expanding global trade routes connecting Europe with the Americas, Asia and Africa, Australia’s remarkable flora and fauna remained entirely absent from the botanical imagination of Europe.
My new works revisit that historical tradition by placing Australian species—once unknown to the world depicted in these maps, and many now threatened—at the centre of the still-life genre. Opening next Friday April 10 at Tge garden Gallery in the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.

31/03/2026

Can you spot the Fairywrens? What about the lizard? Much to discover! Entitled ‘Vase of Flowers with Birds and Nest’, this piece along with the rest of my series ‘Where the Wild Things Grow’ will soon be showing at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden. The works reinterpret the 17th Century Still Life tradition through an Australian lens. Opens 10 April at The Garden Gallery.

18/02/2026

Save the Date! Super excited about my upcoming exhibition at the Garden Gallery in the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. If you are interested in my Collector's Newsletter, I would love to hear from you!

30/09/2025

This still life pays homage to Australia’s botanical and ecological richness – beauty that was entirely absent from the revered still life paintings of the Dutch Golden Era. While European artists celebrated imported blooms and exotic fruits, Australia’s unique native flora remained undocumented. Centuries later, we risk losing some of these overlooked treasures forever.

Featuring threatened plant species including the Davidson Plum – all photographed from live collections rather than cut flowers – this work is a quiet act of reverence and urgency. At its centre, a pair of threatened, Purple-crowned fairy-wrens serve as delicate sentinels, symbolising the growing biodiversity crisis unfolding across Australia.

Through this composition, I hope to draw attention to what has been historically ignored, and what is now imperilled – to shift still life from a genre of abundance to one of awareness, where beauty becomes a call to protect rather than merely admire.

Pleased to have won the People's Choice Award for this piece at the Hornsby Art Prize Exhibition 2025.

10/05/2025

Celebrating the beauty and fragility of Australia's flora and fauna, "Once Was" is a layered photographic landscape that bears witness to Australia's vanishing biodiversity.

Very happy to be one of 30 Australian artists selected as finalists for the 2025 Hadley's Art Prize for this work. The finalist exhibition will be held in Hobart from the 29th of August through the 21st of September.

"Once Was" 2025 by Pamela Pauline, Unique 1/1 photographic collage on Canson Edition Etching Rag, framed with non-reflective glass, 95 cm x 125 cm. SOLD

14/04/2025

While barn owls are found on all of the continents with the exception of Antarctica, banksias naturally occur only in Australia, isn't that amazing? I have just returned from another fabulous trip to WA, where nearly 80% of Australia's banksias grow. New works available now on my website.

Barn owls and banksias @ Pamela Pauline 2025

30/03/2025

In my photographic artwork entitled “Petals and Plumage”, I aim to capture the essence of Australia’s unique natural beauty through the harmonious fusion of native flora and tiny birds. This piece serves as a visual celebration of the vibrant biodiversity that defines this remarkable continent. At the heart of this still life are 13 tiny birds, 11 of which are finches and two that are fairy wrens. Nestled amongst these blossoms, each of these birds are now listed as threatened species, becoming a living testament to the resilience and fragility of Australia’s wildlife.

24/12/2024

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