Emma-Louise Lupin

Emma Lupin is a plant lover, sensory explorer and an environmental educator. Her work in Tropical Australia entwines a love of place, plants and people. 

She trained in plantsmanship and horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh nearly 20 years ago and found herself more at home in the tropical glasshouses amongst the gingers, subsequently spending most of her adult life in the tropics, eventually arriving in the Northern Territory by sailing boat and studying environmental science. 

She has dedicated her time since to sharing her ever growing understanding of the botanical and natural world, as well as facilitating others to do the same through community projects and educational programs- with the intention to strengthen our connection to our natural environment and shape our role in protecting it. 

Her work is carried out in remote places and across cultures and spans the areas of both art and science. 

Emma has received recognition for her roles in community engagement and environmental education in the Northern Territory. These roles have been extensive and include coordinating the Land for Wildlife program (Top End region), community engagement officer and events coordinating for several local community gardens and organisations, facilitating cross cultural harvesting and weaving experiences in Arnhem land homelands, coordinating immersion programs for new female migrants based on connection through edible and useful plant knowledge and engagement with indigenous elders in the  local landscape, documenting medicinal plants in Tiwi Islands and facilitating educational program to promote intergenerational knowledge transfer and most recently a full time remote residential role working with indigenous corporation “Mimal Land Management” as the Learning on Country coordinator. This role facilitates intergenerational knowledge transfer through a community led program  that partners between the indigenous land management organisation and the school.