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• Banks' Florilegium- Society Islands, 1769

  • Start
    25 May 2021
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • End
    31 Jul 2021
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • Location
    Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts 91 Murray Street Hobart

  The Allport takes you to Tahiti, albeit in 1769, showing you for the first time a selection of stunning Society Islands botanicals from Banks' Florilegium.

  The intricate botanical prints and rare journals on display are an enduring record of human survival, courage, curiosity, obsession and creativity.

  Banks' Florilegium – Society Islands, 1769 comprises framed botanical prints individually colour-printed in the 1980s, from the 18th century copperplate engravings of Sydney Parkinson's drawings. Parkinson was the artist who drew the fresh plants collected in the Society Islands by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, as part of Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world.

  Spend some time taking in the edible, the intoxicating and the medicinal details of the plants; well-known to the island people, but many of them entirely new to European botany at the time.

  A beautiful colour catalogue and poster will be available for sale.

  Visit the exhibition in the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts from 25 March 2021. Open weekdays 9:30 am – 5:00 pm; Saturdays 9:30am – 2:00pm; closed Sundays and public holidays.

  Wheelchair accessible

  Bookings are not required to view this exhibition.

  email: libraries.tas@education.tas.gov.au
  

  Phone (03) 6165 5600
  

   

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• Still Now

  • Start
    29 May 2021
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • End
    22 Aug 2021
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • Location
    Horsham Regional Art Gallery 80 Wilson Street, Horsham VIC 3400

  An exhibition featuring some of our most well-known artists including Susannah Blaxill, Dianne Emery and John Pastoriza-Piñol.

  Open 10am to 4pm daily.
  

  
  

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• Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary botanical artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson - QLD

  • Start
    4 Jun 2021
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • End
    11 Jul 2021
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • Location
    Lockyer Valley Art Gallery, 34 Lake Apex Drive, Gatton QLD 4343

  Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary botanical artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson marks the 250^th anniversary of the HMB Endeavour’s voyage along the east coast of Australia. Scientists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, together with illustrator Sydney Parkinson, gathered and recorded many “curious plants (they) met with on shore”.

  Co-curated by Beth Jackson in collaboration with artist and botanist Dr Nita C Lester, this exhibition reflects on the significance of botanical specimens collected from our region 250 years ago, and the emergence of botanical art. It showcases sixty-five exquisite works by thirty-three members of the Botanical Artists’ Society of Queensland (BASQ).

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• The Margaret Flockton Award

  • Start
    7 Jun 2021
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • End
    20 Jun 2021
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • Location
    The Calyx, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney

  
  

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• Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary botanical artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson

  • Start
    16 Jul 2021
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • End
    19 Sep 2021
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • Location
    Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah

  Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary botanical artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson marks the 250^th anniversary of the HMB Endeavour’s voyage along the east coast of Australia. Scientists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, together with illustrator Sydney Parkinson, gathered and recorded many “curious plants (they) met with on shore”.

  Artistic Endeavour heads South
  

  The regional tour of the exhibition Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson is well underway with our artworks moving around the country in secure, purpose-built crates.

  All aspects of the touring program are overseen by Prue McComish, our tour manager at Museums & Galleries Queensland (M&G QLD). The Botanical Artists’ Society of Queensland is fortunate to have the support and mentoring of this peak exhibitions touring agency, from the exhibition’s early planning stages up to the delivery of this major tour. Significantly, they have guided our successful grant applications for the initial funding from Arts Queensland to develop the exhibition at Redcliffe Museum in 2020, to the highly competitive Visions of Australia funding for the tour.

  One of the notable features of the touring program is that, at each venue, the staff need to adapt the exhibition to their gallery spaces. The curators, Beth Jackson and Dr Nita C Lester, worked with M&G QLD staff to develop the tour manual, that outlines the eight exhibition themes to guide the placement of artworks and didactic materials. 

  At each venue, the grant funding covers the costs for a curator tour and workshop. A number of the exhibiting artists put forward a selection of workshop topics from which venues choose. The exhibition and events have met with much interest in the communities to which it has travelled.

  For information on the exhibition https://botanicalartqld.com.au/artistic-endeavour-page/
  

  For information on the touring program http://www.magsq.com.au/cms/page.asp?ID=10568

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• BASA - Flora in Canberra 2021 - ACT

  • Start
    29 Sep 2021
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • End
    10 Oct 2021
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    (UTC+11:00)
  • Location
    Fitter's Workshop, Kingston Arts Precinct, Canberra

  BASA is holding a Flora exhibition in Canberra to coincide with Floriade.

  Entry will be open only to members and registration should be available online by July 2021.
  

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• For the Love of Plants: Strength, Beauty, Fragility - NSW

  • Start
    7 Oct 2021
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    (UTC+11:00)
  • End
    12 Oct 2021
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    (UTC+11:00)
  • Location
    BDAS Gallery and Studios, 1 Short St, Bowral NSW

  For The Love of Plants Exhibition October 2020 - POSTPONED
  

  This exhibition was planned for October 2020 at the Bowral and District Art Society (BDAS) Gallery.  Unfortunately, due to the ongoing situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, it has now been postponed.  We hope 2021 will be a more settled year and a new date for the exhibition will be confirmed in due course.

  Any enquiries should be directed to BDAS Botanic Artists:

  Email bdasbotanicartists17@gmail.com

  The exhibition is being organised by the Bowral and District Art Society (BDAS) Botanical Artists, an untutored group who regularly meet and work together in the BDAS studios.
  The exhibition covers a wide range of approaches to botanical art.
  The last year has shown, particularly to those of us living in the Southern Highlands and surrounding fire affected areas, that nature and plants are both fragile and incredibly resilient.
  We hope that this exhibition, at this difficult time, will highlight the true value of plants.
  Precious, beautiful and extraordinary.
  Artists are invited to submit works for the exhibition.
  All enquiries should be directed to BDAS Botanic Artists:
  E: bdasbotanicartists17@gmail.com M: 0415 078 954
  BDAS Gallery and Studios: www.bdasgallery.com (02)4861 4093
  

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• BASA - Flora in Hobart 2021 - TAS

  • Start
    25 Oct 2021
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    (UTC+11:00)
  • End
    7 Nov 2021
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    (UTC+11:00)
  • Location
    Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, 65 Salamanca Pl, Battery Point TAS 7004

  Due to COVID-19 the exhibition in Hobart has been postponed until October-November 2021. Entries for this exhibition will be open to BASA members only.

  Registration for this exhibition should open in August 2021.
  

  To join BASA please click here

  Contact us for more information.

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• Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary botanical artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson

  • Start
    22 Nov 2021
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    (UTC+11:00)
  • End
    6 Feb 2022
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    (UTC+11:00)
  • Location
    Tamworth Regional Art Gallery Tamworth

  Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary botanical artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson marks the 250^th anniversary of the HMB Endeavour’s voyage along the east coast of Australia. Scientists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, together with illustrator Sydney Parkinson, gathered and recorded many “curious plants (they) met with on shore”.

  Artistic Endeavour heads South
  

  The regional tour of the exhibition Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson is well underway with our artworks moving around the country in secure, purpose-built crates.

  All aspects of the touring program are overseen by Prue McComish, our tour manager at Museums & Galleries Queensland (M&G QLD). The Botanical Artists’ Society of Queensland is fortunate to have the support and mentoring of this peak exhibitions touring agency, from the exhibition’s early planning stages up to the delivery of this major tour. Significantly, they have guided our successful grant applications for the initial funding from Arts Queensland to develop the exhibition at Redcliffe Museum in 2020, to the highly competitive Visions of Australia funding for the tour.

  One of the notable features of the touring program is that, at each venue, the staff need to adapt the exhibition to their gallery spaces. The curators, Beth Jackson and Dr Nita C Lester, worked with M&G QLD staff to develop the tour manual, that outlines the eight exhibition themes to guide the placement of artworks and didactic materials. 

  At each venue, the grant funding covers the costs for a curator tour and workshop. A number of the exhibiting artists put forward a selection of workshop topics from which venues choose. The exhibition and events have met with much interest in the communities to which it has travelled.

  For information on the exhibition https://botanicalartqld.com.au/artistic-endeavour-page/
  

  For information on the touring program http://www.magsq.com.au/cms/page.asp?ID=10568

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• Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary botanical artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson

  • Start
    10 Jun 2022
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • End
    31 Jul 2022
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • Location
    Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery

  Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary botanical artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson marks the 250^th anniversary of the HMB Endeavour’s voyage along the east coast of Australia. Scientists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, together with illustrator Sydney Parkinson, gathered and recorded many “curious plants (they) met with on shore”.

  Artistic Endeavour heads South
  

  The regional tour of the exhibition Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson is well underway with our artworks moving around the country in secure, purpose-built crates.

  All aspects of the touring program are overseen by Prue McComish, our tour manager at Museums & Galleries Queensland (M&G QLD). The Botanical Artists’ Society of Queensland is fortunate to have the support and mentoring of this peak exhibitions touring agency, from the exhibition’s early planning stages up to the delivery of this major tour. Significantly, they have guided our successful grant applications for the initial funding from Arts Queensland to develop the exhibition at Redcliffe Museum in 2020, to the highly competitive Visions of Australia funding for the tour.

  One of the notable features of the touring program is that, at each venue, the staff need to adapt the exhibition to their gallery spaces. The curators, Beth Jackson and Dr Nita C Lester, worked with M&G QLD staff to develop the tour manual, that outlines the eight exhibition themes to guide the placement of artworks and didactic materials. 

  At each venue, the grant funding covers the costs for a curator tour and workshop. A number of the exhibiting artists put forward a selection of workshop topics from which venues choose. The exhibition and events have met with much interest in the communities to which it has travelled.

  For information on the exhibition https://botanicalartqld.com.au/artistic-endeavour-page/
  

  For information on the touring program http://www.magsq.com.au/cms/page.asp?ID=10568

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• Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary botanical artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson

  • Start
    6 Aug 2022
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • End
    24 Sep 2022
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    (UTC+10:00)
  • Location
    Bega Valley Gallery

  Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary botanical artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson marks the 250^th anniversary of the HMB Endeavour’s voyage along the east coast of Australia. Scientists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, together with illustrator Sydney Parkinson, gathered and recorded many “curious plants (they) met with on shore”.

  Artistic Endeavour heads South
  

  The regional tour of the exhibition Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson is well underway with our artworks moving around the country in secure, purpose-built crates.

  All aspects of the touring program are overseen by Prue McComish, our tour manager at Museums & Galleries Queensland (M&G QLD). The Botanical Artists’ Society of Queensland is fortunate to have the support and mentoring of this peak exhibitions touring agency, from the exhibition’s early planning stages up to the delivery of this major tour. Significantly, they have guided our successful grant applications for the initial funding from Arts Queensland to develop the exhibition at Redcliffe Museum in 2020, to the highly competitive Visions of Australia funding for the tour.

  One of the notable features of the touring program is that, at each venue, the staff need to adapt the exhibition to their gallery spaces. The curators, Beth Jackson and Dr Nita C Lester, worked with M&G QLD staff to develop the tour manual, that outlines the eight exhibition themes to guide the placement of artworks and didactic materials. 

  At each venue, the grant funding covers the costs for a curator tour and workshop. A number of the exhibiting artists put forward a selection of workshop topics from which venues choose. The exhibition and events have met with much interest in the communities to which it has travelled.

  For information on the exhibition https://botanicalartqld.com.au/artistic-endeavour-page/
  

  For information on the touring program http://www.magsq.com.au/cms/page.asp?ID=10568

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