"These works were developed during a visit to Mumbai, to look at dioramas in natural history museums and look at the record that's been made about places that now have largely disappeared, or been affected by human development and so on," she said.

The art exhibition held in Sydney is also an event to mark the upcoming International Women's Day on March 8.

"This exhibition is about creating invaluable dialogues between women of different cultures, empowering women to voice their concerns in relations to the environment and to think differently in offering different solutions," said curator Nicolas Tsoutas.

Xiao Xiayong, director of the China Cultural Center in Sydney, said the center hopes the exhibition can remind people of the importance of ecosystems and how much people rely on them while helping deepen cultural exchanges and cooperation between China and Australia.