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Author: Jennie & Valder Churchill (Peter)
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Published: 2015-11-12
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781925043204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the garden that gave the world the Wollemi Pine previously known only from 40,000 year old fossils. The garden that brought to Australia the worlds biggest, stinkiest flower the penis-shaped Giant Stinking Arum. Early in 2016 Sydneys Royal Botanic Garden one of the worlds best will turn 200. A year of fanfare and celebrations will draw ......
Author: Colleen Morris
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Published: 2018-01-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781842466490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Florilegium Society at The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney was formed in 2005 to create a unique collection of contemporary botanical paintings of significant plants that represent the history of the living collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust.This beautifully produced book is a celebration of 200 years of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney,showcasing the botanical richness of these Gardens through the eyes of 64 exceptional Australianand international botanical artists. The stunning botanical paintings are presented chronologicallyaccording to the date of each species' introduction to the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney and its BlueMountains Garden, Mt Tomah and the Australian Garden, Mt Annan. With paintings of indigenousAustralian plants as well as more exotic species from Asia, the Americas, Africa and Europe, TheFlorilegium truly reflects the diversity of the three Gardens.Each painting is accompanied by a botanical description written by Louisa Murray and a historicoverview by Colleen Morris detailing the discovery of the featured species, its historic and culturalsignificance and introduction to the Gardens. With a foreword by Dr Shirley Sherwood OBE, prefaceby Dr Brett Summerell, RBG Sydney Director of Science and Conservation, and an introductory essayby Beverly Allen.The accompanying exhibition of the same name runs from February - August 2018 in the ShirleySherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.'The standard of the plant portraits is so high and the text so illuminating that this will make amemorable book.'Dr Shirley Sherwood OBE
Author: Prudence Gibson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-02-12
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9004360549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Plant Contract argues that visual and performance art can help change our perception of the vegetal world, and can return us to nature and thought. Via an investigation into the wasteland, robotany, feminist plants, and nature rights, this phytology-love story investigates how contemporary art is mediating the effects of plant-blindness, caused by human disassociation from the natural world. It is also a gesture of respect for the genius of vegetal life, where new science proves plants can learn, communicate, remember, make decisions, and associate. Art is a litmus test for how climate change affects human perception. This book responds to that test by expressing plant-philosophy to a wider public, through an interrogation of plant-art.
Author: Shirley Sherwood
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780297822707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of botanical paintings along with descriptions of the artists' techniques and backgrounds.
Author: Colleen Morris
Publisher:
Published: 2020-04-25
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ISBN-13: 9780646816081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe collection of recent botanical paintings by the artists of the Florilegium Society at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney which link the historic Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander herbarium specimens to the Living Collections of the three Gardens of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust on the 250th anniversary of their botanical exploration during Captain Cook's voyage in HMB Endeavour. The intention is to draw attention to the time and place of their collection, inviting reflection on what they mean to science, to the Indigenous peoples, to those collecting them and to the Gardens now.
Author: Colleen Morris
Publisher:
Published: 2016-03
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780994477910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA florilegium of contemporary botanical paintings of historically significant plants has been created by the The Florilegium Society at The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney and donated to the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust. Established botanical artists are invited to join the Society and the paintings accepted are of the highest standard, botanically accurate and painted as individual responses to the subject.The Society has published the Florilegium to celebrate the 200 year history of Australia's first botanic garden. Each of the 87 paintings has a full colour plate and is accompanied by a botanical description and text describing its place in the history of the Gardens through the collectors, the botanists, horticulturalists and directors, and to changing horticultural fashions. Examples of the vegetation that grew around Farm Cove in 1788 and those collected by the intrepid early superintendents Charles Fraser and Allan Cunningham represent the early part of the Garden's history. Introductions under Charles Moore and J H Maiden form a significant part of the collection. The late 20th century scientific work at the Gardens and plants associated with the establishment of the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden at Mt Tomah and The Australian Botanic Garden, Mt Annan.Included is text about the florilegium society, an historical overview of the Gardens and biographies of the 64 artists and 2theauthors. The majority of the artists are Australian, as well as from the United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, the USA, Canada, France and New Zealand.
Author: Lionel Arthur Gilbert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a copiously illustrated account of the Gardens development--the events and personalities involved in it and their implications for the city of Sydney, Australia.
Author: Timothy Entwisle
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2014-09
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1486302041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenges the traditional four seasons, and encourages us to think about how we view changes in our natural world.
Author: Pamela Allen
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780140554786
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Stay close, take care,' quacked Alexander's mother. But Alexander was a wayward duckling - he straggled behind ... and disappeared down a deep dark hole ...
Author: Dale Chihuly
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781842466827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book celebrated the work of iconic artist Dale Chihuly in the landscape of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. A reverie of form, colour and light, Chihuly's exquisite and utterly unique artworks are often described as exaggerated celebrations of what is found in nature. As the most biodiverse place on the planet, Kew's breath-taking setting is the ideal home for such work" - back cover.
