For severals days from the 30th of September Dunedin based artist Juliet Novena Sorrel used observational drawing and mapping as tools for exploring Mid-Canterbury’s natural identity. She spend a week in the Ashburton area making drawings of natural and built features of the landscape which acted as her source material for a large aerial drawing which she drawed directly on our foyer wall. Her observations provide glimpses of Mid-Canterbury. Novena Sorrel has been a practicing artist for 25 years and over this time her work has been collected and exhibited widely in New Zealand.