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WILDFLOWER SEASON brings together a collection of artworks exploring the many ways meaning is made through images of plants and flowers.

We celebrate the conclusion of a significant conservation project with the exhibition of forty botanical watercolour studies by Emily Pelloe, made between 1920 and 1934

After relocating to Western Australia from Mildura in 1916, Pelloe quickly established herself as a figure of influence in Perth society, well known for her passions for botany, equestrian sports, journalism and women's issues. She was a prolific and self-taught artist and produced many of her watercolour studies on long-distance horseback rides through the South West. This exhibition will place her paintings in the context of her life and work, bringing together a substantial folio gifted to the University of Western Australia after her death in 1941, to be held in trust for a women’s college.

In dialogue with Emily Pelloe’s watercolours will be a diverse group of artworks – including painting, etching, sculpture, photography and moving image – which complicate rules of botanical and scientific classification. They emphasise lore rather than law: the stories we tell, and keep alive, about plants and the places we find them. Through observation, documentation and the arrangement and rearrangement of collections, each artist describes their place within a complex, living world.