TARN

Studio

Tarn is a Sydney-based landscape studio founded by Robert Champion. We believe landscape design ought to be more than exterior decoration. Beauty matters, but so does meaning, history, purpose and ecological responsibility. Our work is driven by curiosity. About plants, place, ecology, geology and the dynamics of natural systems. We are working to broaden the range of native flora in cultivation, trialling underused and endangered species, documenting what we learn and sharing it openly. We believe in doing less where possible, designing for the long term, and letting the will of plants lead as much as our own hand.

Contact

7–9 Flinders St Surry Hills NSW 2010
mail@tarn.studio
@tarn_landscape
+61 488 673 143

Robert Champion

In addition to his design practice, Rob is a lecturer within the landscape architecture program at the University of Technology Sydney where he teaches ecology, botany and planting design, and undertakes research. He also contributes writing to various publications on similar topics. Prior founding TARN in 2019, Rob worked at renowned New Zealand design firm O2 Landscapes (whose idiosyncratic, research-based practice informed his own process) among other practices. He has also worked and studied in the sciences.