'Our Plants - Past, Present and Future'
O Tātou Tipu o Mua - o Ināianei me te Āpōpō'
Many Congratulations to the exhibiting artists who have had work selected for this exhibition
Amanda Ffion Bell
Annette Judd
Bernard Salmon
Birgit Rhode
Cathy Brickhill
Claire Broughton
Erin Forsyth
Flo Pirotais
Gillian Receveur
Helen Gunter
Jane Marshall Fitzgerald
Jennifer Duval-Smith
Jenny Haslimeier
Jenny Lee
Jo Ewing
Katharine Allard
K M Reilly
Lesley Alexander
Lisa Dickson
Lorraine Thompson
Megan Lockwood
Michelle Freeborn
Sandra Morris
Sara Bissielo
Sigurd Wilbanks
Sue Wickison
Valerie Cuthbert
Wilma Blom
Yvonne Vannoort
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
2025
24th – 27th March - Receiving days for selected works
Saturday 29th March - Opening of Auckland exhibition
Sunday 18th May - World Day of Botanical Art
Saturday/Sunday 17/18th May - Weekend of Botanical Art
29th June - Auckland Exhibition closes
1st August – 30th September - Wellington Botanic Gardens
17th October – 7th December - Ashburton Art Gallery
7th December - Exhibition ends, all work returned to Auckland
BASNZ and The Friends of Auckland Botanic Gardens are delighted to announce that following the huge success of Botanical Art Worldwide exhibition in 2018, there will be another Botanical Art Worldwide in 2025.
The theme for this exhibition is ‘Crop Diversity’. The American Society of Botanical Artist’s steering committee for the Botanical Art Worldwide decided on the theme and say -
‘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.’
www.botanicalartworldwide.info; February 2022
All correspondence regarding this exhibition should be emailed to baww25nz@gmail.com
Useful websites -
The Heritage Food Crop Research Centre in Whanganui is a great source of information
‘Kōanga’ is home to a large collection of heritage food crops based in Wairoa, Northern hawkes Bay
‘Sentinels Group’ are a collective of New Zealand based hobby growers offering heirloom and locally adapted seed lines for sale.
Riverton Environment Centre is home to the South Coast Environment Society, which heads a number of community and environment initiatives in the Southland Region of New Zealand. They have a page for identifying heritage apples and a seed savers page where you can find out more about heritage seeds suitable for growing in the south of NZ.