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Royal Horticultural Society London
Gold medal plus Best Botanical Painting in the RHS Botanical Art Show 2010
Isik Guner – Araucaria araucana more information
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Rare and endangered endemic plants from South Africa
Plants will be made available to botanical artists who wish to make scientifically accurate recordings of the plants. This process involves the national botanical gardens of South Africa and is co-ordinated by Anthony Hitchcock of Kirstenbosch botanical gardens, Cape Town. Plants may be BORROWED only from the national collection and artists wishing to acquire these plants must be members of BAASA or have exhibited at one of the Kirstenbosch Biennale. more information
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Kirstenbosch Botanical Art Biennale 2010
The exhibition will focus on rare, endangered and narrow endemic species indigenous to southern Africa.
Call for entries - All artists who make botanically accurate, original renditions of the flora of southern Africa are invited to enter the show. Registration Deadline: 5 July 2010 more information
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Derwent pencil museum
Workshop on botanical art 6th and 7th July 2010
Contact for details - Cumberland Pencil Museum,
Southey Works, Keswick, Cumbria, CA12 5NG Tel. 017687 73626
email Stephen Caine
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In Detail - Plants and Flowers Close Up
Dawyck Botanic Garden Sun 2 May - Sun 1 Aug 2010
Kenneth Gray is a freelance graphic designer living and working in Edinburgh. He looks at plants in close-up detail, aiming to transform the way the viewer sees them. more information
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South American Botanical Art comes to Kew Gardens
The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art
8 May – 8 August 2010
Curated by Dr. Shirley Sherwood and Pilar de San Pío Aladren (Real Jardín Botánico of Madrid)
‘Old and New South American Botanical Art’ is a vibrant exhibition, bringing the Latin continent’s exotic and lush plants to life at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It comprises 62 paintings from the Real Jardín Botánico:, Madrid’sMutis Collection (1783 – 1816) – none of which has ever been on display before – and 68 contemporary works from the Shirley Sherwood Collection. This is the first of two new exhibitions in the Gallery as part of RBG Kew’s Biodiversity Year celebrations. More information
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Funding and Research
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A warm welcome to all new members
April visitors to this site 3,375
Don’t forget to send us your exhibition dates.
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Botanica 2010
Treasuring Plants - Treasuring Our Planet exhibition
Location - NSW More information
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The Margaret Flockton Award 2010
The exhibition will be open for public viewing
Friday April 9 – Friday July 9
This year we have had entries from all over the globe (AUS, NZ, UK, MEX, BRA, USA, POL, SPA) and the artworks are of a very high standard. Judging has been completed and the winning and highly commended works will be publicly announced on opening night.
1st prize - $5000
2nd prize - $2000
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The 10th Art of Botanical Illustration Exhibition
will be held in November 2010
Artists interested in exhibiting can download information
from the Botanic Art and Classes page on the Friends' Website
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FON X offered $20,000.00 (USD) in Purchase Awards and a full color catalog.
International exhibition of natural history illustration at the New York State Museum, Albany, New York.
This is a juried, biennial exhibit entitled Focus on Nature (FON).
The next FON (XI) one will open April 12, 2010 and includes artists from 15 countries.
The deadline for entries to FON is always October 1 of the year preceding the opening.
Therefore, FON XII will be in 2012 with a deadline of October 1, 2011.
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2010 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize
Matilda Michell from Sydney has won the overall prize of $50,000 in the 2009 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize. Matilda's painting Fish was selected by judges as the best natural history artwork among the 101 finalists on display.
Entries in the 2010 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize will open in early 2010. More information
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Botanicals - Environmental Expressions in Art
The Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection 23
October 2009–30 June 2010
These artworks are expressions of the purely aesthetic forms found in nature and a reminder that we are stewards of our natural resources for future generations. The exhibition includes 54 artworks by 40 artists from Australia, Belgium, Cuba, England, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, Scotland, South Africa and the United States.
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
5th Floor, Hunt Library Carnegie Mellon University
4909 Frew Street Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 USA
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Women of Flowers
Botanical Art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960
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The National Library of Australia has just published a spectacular book, Women of Flowers: Botanical Art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960, by well respected botanical artist and international tutor, Leonie Norton. This book pays tribute to a range of brilliant women botanical artists from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Ten colonial women artists are featured in this beautiful book, with a rare insight into their lives and show casing their exquisite botanical paintings. While many of the women delighted in painting largely as a diversion from the dull routine of everyday colonial life, some were more adventurous, travelling great distances to find new and unusual specimens.
With fascinating stories of these interesting women, almost 100 illustrations and fine quality printing and reproduction, Leonie Norton’s book should be treasured as a both a reference work and a joy to devour.
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The works were sourced primarily from the National Library of Australia's Pictures Collections. It is a social history of these women and their contribution to botanical art, and a celebration of their achievements. No book of this type has been published in Australia and it will be a valuable addition to any library, public or private.
The book is available at the National Library of Australia’s book store, and can be ordered by phone or internet.
More information or to purchase this book
A talk and book signing is scheduled at the National Library in Canberra on 11th October 2009 at 2pm, and also at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney on 12th December 2009, from 10.30am. |
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