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Steven Vella's latest body of work is the culmination of gathering and collecting; hoarding and observing; responding and revitalising.    The works forming his exhibition The Garden of Natural Beauty at NG Art Gallery, Sydney, give a "second life to discarded objects". Vella has spent years collecting organic objects from various natural spaces in which he spends his time - be it around his home and studio in Sydney or where he grew up in Queensland.   The objects vary from fallen leaves...more