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BELOW YOU CAN FIND ONLINE EXAMPLES OF PAST VIRTUAL BOTANICAL ART EXHIBITIONS

This Archive of Online Botanical Art Exhibitions is organised by:
  • List of Organisations with Online Exhibitions - with brief profiles
  • Year
  • Date of Exhibition
  • Organisation
  • Topic
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426 artworks by 221 international artists

Organisations with Botanical Art Exhibitions ONLINE
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Exhibiting Organisations included:

Society Of Botanical Artists

Founded in 1985, based in the UK, with very large exhibitions and a large number of international members
(Note: None of the online exhibitions can be currently viewed online)

American Society of Botanical Artists 

Founded in 1994, based in the USA with a large range of international members

Botanical Art Society of Australia (BASA)

Founded 2006 as the national organisation for botanical artists in Australia.

Edinburgh Society of Botanical Artists ESBA)

Founded in 2011.
​This Society is the Alumni Association for graduates of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s botanical illustration diploma course.

Association of Botanical Artists

ABA have created by far the largest number of online exhibitions to date.
Informally founded in 2016 in relation to the UK contribution to the Worldwide Exhibition of Botanical Art. Formally registered as an Association in 2019. Changed its name in 2022.

The Garden Museum
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The Garden Museum explores and celebrates the art, history and design of British gardens and their place in our lives today. It has an exhibition space and there are periodic exhibitions involving botanical art.

ONLINE BOTANICAL ART EXHIBITIONS IN 2022
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LISTED IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
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Society of Botanical Artists
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SBA Winter Online Exhibition
Dates: December 2022 - 3rd January 2023

NO LONGER ONLINE

The Winter Exhibition was an online version of the Plantae 2022 exhibition held at the Mall Galleries in June 2022.  

It was a VERY large exhibition with artwork being available for view by thumbnail, artwork or artist.

The Exhibition Catalogue is still available to view 

Association of Botanical Artists
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A Botanical Showcase
Dates: May - November 2022

AVAILABLE ONLINE

This is ABA's 8th online exhibition. 73 artists are represented in this exhibition.  Every artist who submitted work has one piece on show.  Altogether, there were a total of 116 entries which is the largest number we have had submitted for any exhibition.

In 2022, the Association of British Botanical Artists changed its name to the Association of Botanical Artists to reflect its growing international membership. This exhibition was intended to showcase members work following that change in name
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A sample of artwork included in Botanical Showcase

Botanical Art Society of Australia (BASA)
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FLORA 2022: The Art and Science of the Plant
- a small works exhibition
Dates: 2nd September - 17th October 2022
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AVAILABLE ONLINE

This small works exhibition was originally held at the Japanese Garden and Cultural Centre Cowra NSW

The Garden Museum
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The Botanical World of Raymond Booth 
Dates: 1st December 2021 - 6th February 2022
Venue: The Garden Museum, Lambeth, London

AVAILABLE ONLINE 
​For those who were unable to visit the 2022 exhibition in person, the Garden Museum is sharing his paintings online to enjoy from home. 

Raymond Booth was a painter, plantsman and naturalist. The Botanical World of Raymond Booth is a celebration of his intense interest in the study of plants. He tended them himself and would not paint a plant that he had not grown and observed through an entire season.

The works in this exhibition are available for purchase, in aid of the Garden Museum and the wildlife charities Booth supported in his lifetime.
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American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA)
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ASBA Annual Conference 2022
​Virtual Small Works Exhibition (2022)

This is the small works exhibition normally associated with the Annual Conference.  This is the video for ASBA Annual Conference New York 2022 - 2022 Annual Small Works Show 

AVAILABLE ONLINE - Via YouTube

ONLINE BOTANICAL ART EXHIBITIONS IN 2021
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LISTED IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
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Association of British Botanical Artists  (ABBA)
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‘ReflectionS’, no plants-no planet’
Dates: October 2021 - April 2022 (website only)
AVAILABLE ONLINE
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This was displayed:
  • On a large screen for viewing by visitors to the Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Kew Gardens, between 16th October 2021 and 27th March 2022
  • Simultaneously exhibited in the ABBA Online Gallery to an international audience. 

This exhibition was inspired by COP26 ( United Nations - Climate Change Conference ) due to be held in Glasgow in November 2021. It  comprised a juried and digital collection of botanical art by ABBA members reflecting the pivotal role that plants play in preserving the planet's biodiversity.
Purely Botanical II
Dates: May - October 2021
AVAILABLE ONLINE

Continuing a conversation about the definition of botanical art (Part 2)

Botanical Art Society of Australia (BASA)
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Flora - The Art and Science of the Plant 2021
Dates: 26 October to 6 November 2021
Venue: Long  Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Battery Point, Tasmania)
NO LONGER ONLINE - but this changed in 2022.

This is BASA's Annual Exhibition. This year
  • The exhibition at the Gallery was accompanied by a Virtual Exhibition - accessible to all - no longer available.
  • These are the Prize Winners
  • The works will be available to purchase online after the Gallery exhibition closes.

American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA)
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ASBA Annual Conference 2021: ​Virtual Small Works Exhibition 
October 2021

AVAILABLE ONLINE - Dare to be Square (2021)

This is the small works exhibition normally associated with the Annual Conference. 

​In October 2021 the Conference was Online - and so was this exhibition - called "Dare to be Square"
24th Annual International Exhibition
Venue: The Studio, Marin Art and Garden Center
Dates: 19th September - 28th December 2021

This prestigious international exhibition is primarily an "on the wall" exhibition - and small. The latter allows the society to keep the images and the artists stories about them available online.

The website provides three ONLINE records of the exhibition via

Society of Botanical Artists (SBA)
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Plantae 2021
NO LONGER ONLINE
Dates Online: 4th - 18th June 2021

This was another online exhibition, following the one in 2020.
This is
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Edinburgh Society of Botanical Artists (ESBA)
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ESBA 9th Annual Exhibition
Dates Online: 8th February - 22nd March 2021 

This was ESBA's first online exhibition 
REMAINS AVAILABLE ONLINE

ESBA artists are all graduates of the internationally recognized Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Diploma course in Botanical Illustration. Many of the artists have exhibited paintings nationally and internationally, won awards and had work selected for publication, and for inclusion in the RBGE Florilegium.

This was an impressive exhibition online.
​I very much appreciated:
  • ​the opportunity to see all artworks by one artist - through the use of thumbnails (one per artist) to index the exhibition 
  • ​keeping the online exhibition online after the intended dates for the 'real' exhibition. 
  • each artwork had an email link attached to it so that prospective purchasers could contact the artist direct

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Thumbnail images on the home page for the exhibition take you to the artworks of individual artists

ONLINE BOTANICAL ART EXHIBITIONS IN 2020
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The Global Pandemic - which became life-critical in early 2020 - saw the cancellation of most botanical art exhibitions.
Neither art societies nor Art Galleries were used to creating online art exhibitions of botanical art
​- however the Pandemic prompted some to find out how!

Association of British Botanical Artists
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Our Winter Warmer
Dates: December 2019 - October 2020 
AVAILABLE ONLINE

The first open exhibition - for its members - held by ABBA. The exhibition was intended to bring some warmth to the winter in the northern hemisphere.

It showcases 40 artworks by 21 members from 6 different countries.
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English Holly - © Emma van Klaveren Finlay
Purely Botanical 1
Dates: October 2020

AVAILABLE ONLINE

Includes artwork by artists from: Australia, China, Columbia, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Thailand, UK, USA.

American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA)
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23rd Annual International Exhibition
Venue: Wave Hill, 675 West 252nd Street, Bronx, NY  
Dates: 5th September - 6th December 2020

This is the first of past ASBA international exhibitions to be preserved as an archive on the ASBA's new website

As always this international exhibition is primarily an "on the wall" exhibition - and small. The latter allows the society to keep both the images of the artwork and the artists' stories about them available online

The website provides three ONLINE records of the exhibition via

Society of Botanical Artists (SBA)
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Plantae 2020 
NO LONGER ONLINE

The planned annual exhibition to be held at the Mall Galleries. Due to the Pandemic and the Gallery being closed it was converted into a digital exhibition for a limited time period. 

Hence this online exhibition was UNPLANNED in this format.
  • It included 426 artworks - paintings, drawings, fine art prints, and 3D work - by 221 artists
  • around 20% of the artists came from countries outside the UK - with a number of countries being represented for the first time
  • it was probably the biggest ever exhibition of botanical art online. 

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ONLINE EXHIBITIONS IN 2019
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Association of British Botanical Artists
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Our Founding Artists
Date: March - June 2019

AVAILABLE ONLINE

This exhibition celebrates the work of the founding members of ABA without whose dedication ABBA would not have been formed. Gaynor Dickeson - Elaine Allison - Martin Allen - Claire Ward - Deborah Lambkin - Lucy Smith - Dianne Sutherland - Adrienne Roberts

Plus a selection of artwork from the World Wide Day of Botanical Art Ruskin Gallery, University of Lancaster - May 2018
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A year in a Welsh Oak Wood © Claire Ward
Local Talent
Date: July 2019

AVAILABLE ONLINE

As a follow-up to the first exhibition in 2018, this exhibition is a sample of the work of ABBA's Champions - local and regional representatives.
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Squash - © Julie Coleclough

ONLINE BOTANICAL ART EXHIBITIONS IN 2018
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The first Online Botanical Art Exhibitions were associated with the first Worldwide Exhibition of Botanical Art in 2018.
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BELOW are links to the YouTube Videos by four countries which provided displays of the artwork selected for specific countries
  • Australia: Flora of Australia
  • Brazil: Botanical Art
  • China: Flora of China
  • Japan: Native Plants of Japan
  • ​New Zealand: "Ngai Tipu Taketake - Indigenous Flora
  • South Africa: Botanical Art
Three organisations set up and held slideshows of the selected artwork on their website