Collecting Nature
鈥� 鈥� the naturalist, from the habit of observing, sees many things not obvious to all persons 鈥︹��
John Leonard Knapp: Journal of a Naturalist (1829)
The instinct to discover and record the natural world is a profoundly human one. It is from close observation of nature that we begin to intuit the patterns that govern our universe, to understand its hierarchies and equilibriums.
Collecting Nature draws on the work of six artists who explore a rich tradition that spans Medieval bestiaries, botanicals and herbariums to the collections of 18th and 19th century self-taught amateur naturalists. The exhibition encompasses many mediums including artist鈥檚 books, botanical drawings, etchings, photographs, entomology boxes, cutting-edge silk screens and stone-printed lithographs. The artists focus on nature to comment upon history, the passage of time, the fragility of our eco-system.
The show features recent and historic work, including Jane Joseph鈥檚 original plant studies for the etching portfolio Seeds and Fruits (2007) 鈥� a collaboration with the writer Mel Gooding that celebrates indigenous British plants 鈥� and Mandy Bonnell鈥檚 Helicopter Flower series which combine pressed botanical specimens with meticulously detailed pencil drawings.
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鈥� 鈥� the naturalist, from the habit of observing, sees many things not obvious to all persons 鈥︹��
John Leonard Knapp: Journal of a Naturalist (1829)
The instinct to discover and record the natural world is a profoundly human one. It is from close observation of nature that we begin to intuit the patterns that govern our universe, to understand its hierarchies and equilibriums.
Collecting Nature draws on the work of six artists who explore a rich tradition that spans Medieval bestiaries, botanicals and herbariums to the collections of 18th and 19th century self-taught amateur naturalists. The exhibition encompasses many mediums including artist鈥檚 books, botanical drawings, etchings, photographs, entomology boxes, cutting-edge silk screens and stone-printed lithographs. The artists focus on nature to comment upon history, the passage of time, the fragility of our eco-system.
The show features recent and historic work, including Jane Joseph鈥檚 original plant studies for the etching portfolio Seeds and Fruits (2007) 鈥� a collaboration with the writer Mel Gooding that celebrates indigenous British plants 鈥� and Mandy Bonnell鈥檚 Helicopter Flower series which combine pressed botanical specimens with meticulously detailed pencil drawings.
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