What We Can Learn from Nature: Australian Museum X Vivid Ideas

Tim Low is an ecologist and best-selling author of seven books. His Where Song Began became the first nature book ever to win the Australian Book Industry Award for best General Non Fiction. Feral Future inspired the formation of a conservation group, the Invasive Species Council. Tim has written reports about climate change impacts on nature for the Australian and Queensland governments. He has worked as a nature guide in Australia and Borneo. As a teenager he discovered new lizard species, including one that he named and one that was named after him.

Leila Jeffreys (b.1972) is an Australian contemporary artist represented by Olsen Gallery, Sydney. Best known for visceral and mysterious images of birds that explore and subvert the traditions of portraiture, increasingly, Jeffreys’ work as an artist is inextricable from her concerns as an environmentalist. Working in the tradition of artist-activists, the artist collaborates with conservationists, ornithologists and sanctuaries around the world to find her subjects before forging an intimate relationship with the birds that she photographs. Jeffreys has held solo exhibitions in Hong Kong, New York, London and Sydney, and over the last 18 months her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Stockholm, Paris, Talin, Toulouse, Istanbul, and Brussels. Jeffreys has published three books including award winning Birdland.

David Gandelman is a spiritual teacher, author, and guide, whose mission is to awaken souls on their path of growing into being human, and living an enlightened, purpose-driven life.

He is the founder of the Meditation School app, and host of the Meditation School, Energy Matters, and Grounded Sleep podcasts. And his meditations have been streamed millions of times. He has taught at Cornell University, NBC Universal, SAP, and numerous other organizations.

David holds a B.A. in Western philosophy from Rutgers University, which combined with his studies in Eastern spiritual traditions living in the Himalayas, as well as his experience as the director of a school for intuitive development and mysticism in Hawaii, informs a teaching style that connects energetic experience, ancient wisdom traditions, and humour in order to create a safe atmosphere for people interested in learning to meditate and develop into their potential.