Cassandra Chilton is a Principal at Rush Wright Associates. With 17 years experience as a landscape architect Cassandra’s folio includes major urban landscape works in Victoria and South Australia. She is also a founding member of the feminist art collective Hotham Street Ladies whose humorous and occasionally controversial works have been widely published; and exhibited locally and internationally.
Cassandra Chilton's Latest contributions
Light, movement, growth: The Heide Healing Garden
To rejuvenate the Heide I Kitchen Garden and create a place for wellbeing, experimentation and sensory immersion, Openwork looked to the past for an appropriate design approach.
Subject/Object: Cassandra Chilton
In the first segment of our nine-part series exploring the relationship between everyday living and design practice, Cassandra Chilton reveals four personal objects that have influenced the development of her approach to landscape architecture practice.
Arboreal encounters: Tree Story
Cassandra Chilton visits Monash University Museum of Art’s latest exhibition and encounters a wealth of works interrogating our multifaceted relationship with trees.
Colony: Frontier Wars, Colony: Australia: 1770-1861
Two concurrent exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria explored the tensions between European and Indigenous perspectives on Australia’s colonization.
Tracing a ‘revelatory path’: 2017 NGV Architecture Commission
Cassandra Chilton of Rush Wright Associates reviews the 2017 NGV Architecture Commission by Retallack Thompson and Other Architects and finds, among other things, the “best place in Melbourne this summer for a warm afternoon snooze.”
2017 AILA salary survey: Why are women still under-represented in the upper levels of the profession?
With the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects’ 2017 salary survey revealing entrenched gender inequity, Rush Wright Associates principal Cassandra Chilton makes the case for action.
Sh*t Gardens of Melbourne II: A celebration not a condemnation
Cassandra Chilton reviews the recent exhibition Shit Gardens of Melbourne II: A Celebration Not a Condemnation – an unofficial fringe event to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.
