Gwelup Secret Garden by Wade Taylor

Amongst thicket and shrubland Careniup Wetlands in Gwelup stands as a place of strange and distinct beauty. With a comparatively recent history of market gardening it is a site in constant flux. The swamp landscape fuses with a spellbinding but invasive weed which scales banksia wattle and paperbark forming arbours hidden pathways and amorphous mounds of an almost alien intrigue. Returning time again to this place reveals fresh secrets both dark corners and open vistas where sunlight streams through cascading vegetation. Under a process of rewilding it remains a site of complexity and contradiction that holds an integral place in the city's landscape. - Artist Wade Taylor