NTBG’s Florilegium is a group of botanical illustrators and artists gathered by instructor Wendy Hollender of Draw Botanical. The group comes together annually to explore, study, observe, and document Kauaʻi’s unique native and introduced flora through illustration.
2025 Florilegium Art Show
Opening Reception March 7, 2025 6pm (RSVP)
National Tropical Botanic Gardens – South Shore Visitor Center
4425 Lāwaʻi Rd, Kōloa, HI 96756, USA
Once again, botanical artists around the world will join together to curate simultaneous exhibitions of botanical art to raise awareness of the rejuvenation of this artform and bring attention to plants and their importance to humanity. Special events will also be held to celebrate the Worldwide Day of Botanical Art on May 18, 2025.
The second Botanical Art Worldwide Project will focus on and celebrate biodiversity in the crops that have been closely associated with the human species over thousands of years. The theme is designed to draw attention to the vast variety of food and useful plants available, in contrast with the relatively few varieties currently used in mass cultivation. Plants eligible for inclusion are those cultivated for food, textiles, building, energy, and medicine.
Currently, many heritage species and varieties are only cultivated in small quantities by specialist growers on a limited scale. It is vital to promote this genetic diversity in a world challenged by a growing population, changing climate, and habitat losses.
In Australia the exhibition is to feature plant species that are Bush Foods, Medicinal and Utilitarian Plants indigenous to Australia. This may include natural hybrids, cultivars or man-made hybrids.
John’s work has been selected and will be hung at BELCO Arts Centre in Belconnen ACT from 28 March to 18 May 2025 and is also one of forty works to be sent digitally around the world for viewing in the other participating countries.
Belconnen Arts Centre
118 Emu Bank,
Belconnen, ACT 2617
Phone: (02) 6173 3300
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Curators Alissa Cook and Katharine Rogers, with the support of Judy Dunstan, invite you to consider how charade, pageantry, and mimicry feature in the botanical world. Expect to see an array of stunning depictions of mimicry and deception, including the Tiger Orchid, which fools male wasps into spreading its pollen; the blue-spotted sun orchid, which grows near the native iris, stealing their pollinators away; or the Venus fly trap, which clamps its jaw-like structure over unsuspecting insects. More than just an art exhibition, Botanica is a celebration of conservation and creativity.
The Garden Gallery,
Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
Mrs Macquaries Road
Sydney, NSW 2000 (map)
10am – 4pm
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The 2025 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show will be on from Wednesday 26 March to Sunday 30 March 2025. BASA will be exhibiting our members’ artwork in the Art Exhibition on the Gallery level of the Royal Exhibition Building.
Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show 2025
26 – 30 March 2025
Royal Exhibition Building,
Carlton Gardens,
Melbourne, VIC 300
The Turchin Center is pleased to host an exhibition of works showcasing the work of many of the resident artists supported by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Since 2018, the Foundation has hosted over 120 residents. Their programs include the Interdisciplinary Residency, Botanical Artist Residency, Plant Conservation Science Fellowship, Plant Science Research Fellowship, Stacy Lloyd Fellowship for Bibliographic Studies, and the Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence. As Sir Peter Crane, president of the OSGF has written, the mandate of the Foundation is “to use this remarkable legacy to serve the public interest—by facilitating scholarship, inspiring public dialogue, and encouraging meaningful engagement with the history and future of plants – including especially their contributions to human well-being and significance in the culture of gardens and landscapes.”
Oak Spring: Seeding Artists,
Community Gallery and Hodges Gallery
Turchin Centre
423 West King St.
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-3017
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