Wendy Whiteley's Secret Garden
Once-derelict railway land turned by hand into a lush terraced garden above a harbour foreshore.
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This guide to Wendy Whiteley's Secret Garden in Sydney's Lavender Bay follows the artist's widow, Wendy Whiteley, who walked down this derelict slope of dumped railway land in the weeks after her husband Brett's death in 1992 and began clearing it by hand, with no training and no permission. It follows what she planted here over the following decades, and how grief returned to reshape her work in 2001. Listen for how long it took the state to formally recognize what she had built without ever being asked.
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