Paul Fox

Paul Fox is an honorary fellow of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Landscape Advisory Sub-Committee of Heritage Council Victoria. He has a background in History and in landscape architecture. As a recipient of Museum Victoria's Thomas Ramsay Scholarship he studied the history of the culture of collecting.

Paul’s extensive writings include articles on the history of Melbourne's cultural institutions, photography, the colonial frontier, and gardening. His first book is Clearings, the stories of six colonial gardeners and their making of the Australian landscape. He lives in Melbourne.

Books by Paul Fox

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  Clearings

  When Europeans settled the Australian colonies they saw beyond the wilderness of the bush to the possibilities of an ideal landscape. But first the land had to be cleared. And to make a clearing in the colonies was to erase what existed in nature and replace it with something new. A beautiful illustrated collection of six colonial gardeners and their vision of the Australian landscape.

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