Gallery

Butterfly
Catrin Morgan and Rachel Pedder-Smith

This exhibition brings the history of florilegia into the context of the art gallery, presenting two sets of contemporary botanical paintings and texts. The exhibition asks the visitor to consider the idea of collecting, or collections, both as scientific pursuits necessary for the accurate documentation of our natural world, and as a form of contemporary art practice that intends to give a sense of visual beauty to the inexpressive rigour and systematisation normally associated with purely scientific study.

We wish to give special thanks to Daunt Bookshop for supplying the books.

Exhibition runs to 6th September

For gallery opening hours please see Visiting and booking

For more information please email daniel.campbellblight@lbhf.gov.uk, tel:020 7610 7169