It’s now four months since we announced Field of the Unwanted. Led by Chris Williams, a group of artists – part of DADAA’s larger Green Brigade project – has transformed the neglected demolition site at 8 Queen Victoria Street in Fremantle into a beautifully unconventional garden. Field of the Unwanted uses ‘weeds’ or plants that grow where they are not wanted to question the hierarchies of value and displacement experienced by members of our own communities. The project calls attention to the unwelcome and undesirable.

Acting as custodians of the various weed plots, the artists and the surrounding community have spent countless hours – most in the heat of summer – to grow and create an emerging installation and garden, which now encompasses over 30 unique weed varieties.