Whanganui's Bushy Park is like an ark, says sculptor Jill Stegmann.
She is one of a group of eight artists exhibiting in Space Gallery's 80 Million Years of Separation exhibition, a celebration of Bushy Park Sanctuary's uniqueness.
The other artists are Katherine Claypole, Deb Frederikse, Sophie Klerk, Lindsay Marsh, Catherine Macdonald, Fiona McGowan and Felicity Priest.
The title of the exhibition is derived from the understanding that New Zealand was separated from the great land mass known as Gondwanaland about 80 million years ago.
Bushy Park, they say, provides an "inland, island of beauty and wonder where indigenous flora and fauna thrive".