Artist's Stories

Botanical Bytes

The XX Chromosomes of Botany

When people see a flower, most won’t see it as a gendered symbol. However, in a plant’s practical way, that is just what a flower is. The science of botany

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Botanical Bytes

A wild garden in remote Tasmania

Life is a garden…all of that constant curating, planting, weeding, leaving fallow, the intensive bed preparation, seed sowing and productivity. The sharing of food produce and making of friends. The

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Herbarium label
Major Projects

Churchill Fellowship: unique opportunity

During 2017-18, I travelled overseas to study the early French botanical historical collections from Tasmania, which are held in European herbaria. My Churchill Fellowship was a very unique experience that

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Major Projects

‘Fabric of Botany’ film

The ‘Fabric of Botany’ is a short 28-minute film of broadcast quality, documenting:   myself, botanical artist and fabric designer Deborah Wace   my Arts Residency on the North East

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