The Arts and Ecology Centre is a sustainably designed facility used for:
- exhibitions and residencies
- creative and environmental workshops
- talks and symposium events.
The Centre includes public amenities, the Compass Café, exhibition room, workshop area and staff office.
Opened in 2011, the building features solar, natural ventilation and rainwater harvesting. The building compliments its botanical setting with beautiful, native landscaping with banksia and kurrajong flowers, a sub-tropical pond, hanging epiphytes and Japanese 'earth' garden. For more information download this document (PDF, 2960KB).
Featured image: Botanical colourings exhibition, Sunshine Coast Natural Dyers Group. Photo courtesy of G Leonard.
Find out what's on
The garden hosts a range of indoor and outdoor events.
From art exhibitions to outdoor concerts, guided walks to gardening workshops. Find out What's On.