A Love Letter To Plants

Royal Botanic Garden Exhibition

pictured: ‘Bushland' by the Murray #2’, Nat Ward, Oil on canvas.

A multi-sensory new exhibition in Sydney – A LOVE LETTER TO PLANTS.

PL❤NTS is an immersive new exhibition of more than 150 artworks at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney that is set to engage all of the senses.

Curated as ‘A Love Letter to Plants’, the show rejoices the many ways plants enhance our world, with innovative works across a range of mediums, including sculpture, sound, photography, painting, drawing and collage.

pictured: ‘I know that something good is going to happen’, Nicola Woodcock, oil pastel on timber.

pictured: ‘Data hub aberration (edition 4 of 10)’, Daniel Shipp, pigment ink-jet photographic print on Museum etching paper.

Plants deserve our ‘love letters’ – they are so essential to all our lives. Highlights include:

Wildly imaginative installations of prismatic light and fun creative workshops by Skunk Control, a team of scientists and artists from Victoria University.
A wall dedicated to paintings from the private collection of much-loved Australian horticulturist and gardening writer, the late Shirley Stackhouse OAM.
Plantasia, an album by American pioneer musician Mort Garson recorded especially for the listening enjoyment of plants.

Rare and unusual plants propagated from the Botanic Garden will also be on sale.

The exhibition runs from Saturday 25 July – Sunday 2 August 2020 at historic Lion Gate Lodge (off Mrs Macquaries Road) in the Royal Botanic Garden and is suitable for all members of the family.

Entry is free of charge and all artworks are for sale.

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