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• The Ancients - Lynne Uptin

  • Start
    21 Nov 2025
  • End
    13 Dec 2025
  • Location
    Level 1 / 65 Murray Street, Hobart, Tasmania

  Opening night: Friday the 21st of November, 2025, 5.30-7pm

  Panel Discussion: Saturday the 22nd of November, 2025, 2-4pm

  https://www.bettgallery.com.au/exhibitions/372-lynne-uptin-the-ancients/ 

  Highly anticipated, The Ancients is Lynne's first exhibition at Bett Gallery since being awarded the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Best Botanical Art Exhibit, along with a Gold Medal, at the 2024 RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show at the Saatchi Gallery, London. 

  PANEL DISCUSSION - SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER

  The Significance of the Arts in Environmental Advocacy

  
  

  Art has long been a powerful catalyst for igniting public dialogue and inspiring community engagement on environmental issues. 

  With the backdrop of Lynne Uptin's exhibition The Ancients as a catalyst, please join an outstanding panel of writers and visual artists whose work invites audiences to engage with issues not just intellectually but emotionally. Does their work help foster a deeper commitment to environmental responsibility? What are the issues being faced here, and what can we do to address them?

  
  

  Lynne Uptin: Internationally acclaimed botanical artist

  Philip Wolfhagen: Leading Australian contemporary painter

  Andrew Darby: Prize winning nature writer, author of The Ancients: Discovering the world's oldest surviving trees in wild Tasmania

  Tabatha Badger: MP, author and wilderness photographer

  
  

  These plant lineages have endured for millions of years. They have fortuitously avoided growing on the wrong side of volcanoes, lived through ice ages and survived through extinction events.

  — Lynne Uptin

  
  

  Tasmania is a global centre of plant palaeoendemism, containing relics of some of the world's oldest plant lineages. Palaeoendemics are ancient survivors, once widespread, changing environments now restrict their geographic survival and now occupy a climate space that is globally rare. High levels of palaeoendemism occur widely in western Tasmania, particularly at or slightly above the tree line in relatively undisturbed vegetation, constantly moist climates lacking extreme temperatures, and in open vegetation with rare or no fire. 

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• BASA Exhibition at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show 2026

  • Start
    25 Mar 2026
  • End
    29 Mar 2026
  • Location
    Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, VIC

  The 2026 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show will be on from Wednesday 25 March to Sunday 29 March 2026.

  BASA will be exhibiting our members' artwork in the Art Exhibition on the Gallery level of the Royal Exhibition Building.

  The Information for artists and entry forms will be available in December. Entries will close on 13 February 2026.

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• Flora: Nature's Gift - a BASA exhibition

  • Start
    5 Jul 2026
  • End
    30 Jul 2026
  • Location
    Royal Qld Art Society Gallery, 25 Broadbeach Blvd, Broadbeach Qld

  

  All BASA members are invited to exhibit. Entries will open in early 2026.

  
  

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• The Art of Botanical Illustration

  • Start
    19 Sep 2026
  • End
    4 Oct 2026
  • Location
    Domain House Gallery, Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne

  The premier Botanical Art exhibition held every 2 years at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.

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