Brand New!! Queuing To Catch Shirley Sherwood Gallery Of Botanical Art!
Monday, 4 February 2019
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Last dark was the Private View for the 4 novel fine art exhibitions at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.
We were told that some 8,500 people had visited the Gallery final calendar week too that at the weekend people were queuing to instruct in!
The number of visitors too queues volition endure inwards no small-scale component related to the Rebecca Louise Law: Life inwards Death exhibition which is quite different anything I've always seen before. It's an experience!
Her exhibition is an installation inside the large fundamental infinite inside the Gallery too promotes her passion - the job of preserved constitute textile every bit fine art material.
Plants too flowers that she has collected over a x yr period, cause got been dried too strung on really sparse copper wire garlands suspended from grids attached to the ceiling. There are 350,000 specimens strung on c.1,000 garlands spaced at intervals of to a greater extent than or less 12 inches.
It seems every bit if the entire room is completely total of dried flowers too pods. However a wavy path cutting through the middle allows visitors to get-go on i side too movement through to an travel out via a diagonal which takes you lot through an amazing gain of constitute material.
I'd seen the exhibition previously too kept feeling the postulate to spin circular to await at the exhibit from every angle. Looking at the constitute textile too the disorientating number of spinning to a greater extent than or less inwards component explains why people cause got quite a flake of fourth dimension moving through....
What was interesting yesterday was that in that place was a distinct odor inwards the air which I hadn;t noticed previously. Almost similar beingness inwards the centre of a giant pot-pourri.
This exhibition is supported past times a split upward exhibition (in Gallery 4) of the ancient Egyptian preserved funeral garlands of Ramesses II inwards Kew's ain collection - which appointment dorsum to 1300BC. This is a really rare world display of the delicate too beautiful ancient Egyptian wreaths, which, draped over mummies too coffins, accompanied the dead to the afterlife.
The springboard for the exhibition were the items collected past times Richard Spruce who was born 200 years agone this yr too was a botanist too explorer who spent xv years exploring the South American rainforests inwards the minute one-half of the 19th century
This exhibition is an interesting collaboration. The contributors are:
The latest - too fantabulous - exhibition of botanical fine art from botanical artists to a greater extent than or less the the world is titled Abundance: seeds, pods too tumble fruits.
I'll endure publishing my review of this exhibition - which volition also listing all the works inwards the present - on my Botanical Art too Artists - News weblog on Sunday.
In the meantime, hither are a few photos from final night's Private View.
The gallery is opened upward daily from 10am. The fourth dimension it closes varies past times date.
We were told that some 8,500 people had visited the Gallery final calendar week too that at the weekend people were queuing to instruct in!
Rebecca Louise Law: Life inwards Death
The number of visitors too queues volition endure inwards no small-scale component related to the Rebecca Louise Law: Life inwards Death exhibition which is quite different anything I've always seen before. It's an experience!
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| Rebecca Louise Law amongst her exhibition Life inwards Death at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Kew Gardens |
Her exhibition is an installation inside the large fundamental infinite inside the Gallery too promotes her passion - the job of preserved constitute textile every bit fine art material.
Plants too flowers that she has collected over a x yr period, cause got been dried too strung on really sparse copper wire garlands suspended from grids attached to the ceiling. There are 350,000 specimens strung on c.1,000 garlands spaced at intervals of to a greater extent than or less 12 inches.
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| Rebecca Louise Law: Life inwards Death #1 |
It seems every bit if the entire room is completely total of dried flowers too pods. However a wavy path cutting through the middle allows visitors to get-go on i side too movement through to an travel out via a diagonal which takes you lot through an amazing gain of constitute material.
I'd seen the exhibition previously too kept feeling the postulate to spin circular to await at the exhibit from every angle. Looking at the constitute textile too the disorientating number of spinning to a greater extent than or less inwards component explains why people cause got quite a flake of fourth dimension moving through....
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| Rebecca Louise Law: Life inwards Death #2 |
This exhibition is supported past times a split upward exhibition (in Gallery 4) of the ancient Egyptian preserved funeral garlands of Ramesses II inwards Kew's ain collection - which appointment dorsum to 1300BC. This is a really rare world display of the delicate too beautiful ancient Egyptian wreaths, which, draped over mummies too coffins, accompanied the dead to the afterlife.
Lindsay Sekulowicz: Plantae Amazonicae
Lindsay Sekulowicz: Plantae Amazonicae combines novel artworks past times Lindsay amongst items from the economical phytology collection maintained past times Kew.
This exhibition forms a portrait of the Brazilian Amazon, resulting from collaboration betwixt the creative somebody Lindsay Sekulowicz too Kew’s Science team.
The springboard for the exhibition were the items collected past times Richard Spruce who was born 200 years agone this yr too was a botanist too explorer who spent xv years exploring the South American rainforests inwards the minute one-half of the 19th century
Kew holds 260 rare too fascinating artefacts too raw constitute materials collected past times Richard Spruce inwards South America.The items too artworks inwards the exhibition explore material, travel too meaning, cultural cognition too scientific study.
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| (left to right) Elena Heatherwick, Mark Nesbitt, Lindsay Sekulowicz too William Milliken amongst a photograph of Richard Spruce inwards the background |
This exhibition is an interesting collaboration. The contributors are:
- the creative somebody Lindsay Sekulowicz who took on the travel of Artist inwards residence at the Economic Botany Collection inwards Kew Gardens working on a projection based on the collections of botanist too explorer Richard Spruce to exercise novel artworks inwards diverse forms.
- Professor Mark Nesbitt who leads question on Economic Botany inwards Kew's Science Directorate (Twitter: @Economicbotany ) too is too responsible for the History too curation of economical phytology collections
- William Milliken - an ethno-botanist who is the Research Leader, Diversity too Livelihoods at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
— Mark Nesbitt (@Economicbotany) November 8, 2017
- and Elena Heatherwick a lensman - who took photographs of Lindsay too for the exhibition (Instagram; Twitter: @EHeatherwick )
Mesmerised too captivated past times #lindsaysekulowicz creatively connecting #RichardSpruce #Amazon collections of past times amongst acquaint pic.twitter.com/VUGmQrcmQQ— Kim Walker (@Kim_Wyrt) 8 Nov 2017
Abundance: seeds, pods too tumble fruits
The latest - too fantabulous - exhibition of botanical fine art from botanical artists to a greater extent than or less the the world is titled Abundance: seeds, pods too tumble fruits.
I'll endure publishing my review of this exhibition - which volition also listing all the works inwards the present - on my Botanical Art too Artists - News weblog on Sunday.
In the meantime, hither are a few photos from final night's Private View.
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| Scottish botanical creative somebody Robert McNeill with his watercolour epitome of the seed pod of the Himalayan Lily Cardiocrinum giganteum |
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| Sandra Wall Armitage (President of the Society of Botanical Artists) amongst her watercolour painting Cardoon - a Fragile Beauty (2014) |
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| Phansakdi Chakkaphak from Thailand too ii of his 3 watercolour paintings (left) Ivy Gourd Coccinia grandis (2016) and (right) Bitter Gourd (2016) |
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| Dr Shirley Sherwood amongst Princess Michael of Kent admiring the contrary petroleum epitome on drinking glass of Teasels for Finches past times Yanny Petters |
Shirley Sherwood Gallery
The gallery is opened upward daily from 10am. The fourth dimension it closes varies past times date.
- From 29 Oct to twenty Nov 2017 gallery closes at 3.45pm – final admission 3.30pm
- From 21 Nov 2017 to 1 Jan 2018 gallery closes at 3pm – final admission 2.45pm
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