'Voyages Botanical' is artist Christine Johnson’s tribute to the untamed treasures of Australia’s vast native flower garden. It is indeed a voyage: through rare and wonderful landscapes, but also through our botanical heritage and history.
'Voyages Botanical' was inspired by Johnson’s time as a Creative Fellow at the State Library of Victoria. Her research, which drew on the library’s collection of rare books of botanical illustration, took her back to the pioneering work of early botanical artists including Sydney Parkinson, Pierre-Joseph Redouté and Ferdinand Bauer. This was the beginning of Johnson’s own creative journey that at once honours our past, present and future.
Johnson’s aim is simple: to tell the story of these early years of the exploration of Australia - but embellishing it by blending art with science, cartography and facsimiles of writings from the explorers’ journals, including the flowers they picked along the way.
'Voyages Botanical' is touring regional galleries around Australia from 2015-2018 read more
'Voyages Botanical' was inspired by Johnson’s time as a Creative Fellow at the State Library of Victoria. Her research, which drew on the library’s collection of rare books of botanical illustration, took her back to the pioneering work of early botanical artists including Sydney Parkinson, Pierre-Joseph Redouté and Ferdinand Bauer. This was the beginning of Johnson’s own creative journey that at once honours our past, present and future.
Johnson’s aim is simple: to tell the story of these early years of the exploration of Australia - but embellishing it by blending art with science, cartography and facsimiles of writings from the explorers’ journals, including the flowers they picked along the way.
'Voyages Botanical' is touring regional galleries around Australia from 2015-2018 read more
Christine Johnson speaks with 3RRR's Richard Watts about Voyages Botanical
Listen online:
http://ondemand.rrr.org.au/grid/20141106100154
Listen online:
http://ondemand.rrr.org.au/grid/20141106100154
Read the 54 page catalogue for Voyages Botanical online at Issuu.com
http://issuu.com/www.christinejohnsonartist.com/docs/christinejohnson_voyagebotanical_fi?e=14267311/10028647
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http://issuu.com/www.christinejohnsonartist.com/docs/christinejohnson_voyagebotanical_fi?e=14267311/10028647
or view below and scroll through