Special Publications: June 29, 2023

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Johnny Turner Sky Mirror (2017)
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Matt Williams
Switch (2022)
Just 20 minutes from central Christchurch, TSG was,
until relatively recently, a flat, barren piece of land that
had been a pony paddock for the owners’ daughters.
Around 2009, while enjoying a glass of wine at a
neighbour’s one evening, Peter Joyce, a now retired
professor of psychiatry and lifelong avid cricket and rugby
man, decided he would start planting natives and see
where things led. His wife, Annabel Menzies-Joyce, a cast
glass artist with a diploma in landscape architecture and a
deeply ingrained love of the land, insisted that before he
got carried away, he needed a plan.
For Peter, that plan was to plant what should be there –
indeed what would have been there 1000 years ago – and
what could be still be there in another 1000 years’ time: a
podocarp forest comprising kahikatea, totara, matai, and
other native trees.
Since autumn 2010, the couple has planted more than
8000 native trees and shrubs, including rare or threatened
plants native to Canterbury, at the same time building up
an impressive permanent collection of sculptures.
Building Outdoor Spaces Where Memories Are Made.
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