Tellus Art Project 1 (at Plantbank, Australian Botanic Garden, NSW)

Abstract

The first of two exhibitions for the Tellus Art Project aims to re-value the plant collection of the Herbarium through the mediation of art. It addresses the affliction of plant blindness, wherein many people do not recognise or value the plant life around them, particularly in an epoch of climate change and species extinction. It considers how the Herbarium plant collection will form the basis of art making and re-valuing of vegetal life.