Botanical art has taken off in Ireland in a major way in the last few years.
There have been a number of regular exhibitions within Ireland.
This is an archive of important past botanical art exhibitions in Ireland - between 2014-2020.
There have been a number of regular exhibitions within Ireland.
This is an archive of important past botanical art exhibitions in Ireland - between 2014-2020.
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This listing comprises:
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The exhibitions are held at specialist locations, national and regional museums and other venues
Within regular exhibitions at the same location, the list is ordered in reverse chronological order i.e. most recent first |
National Gallery of Ireland
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Exhibition: Drawn from Nature: Irish Botanical Art
Venue: Print Gallery, National Gallery Of Ireland, Merrion Square West & Clare Street, Dublin 2 Dates: 7 March - 21 June 2020 Temporarily Closed NEW Dates: 22 July - 30 August 2020 The exhibition included work by celebrated artists of the past such as
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National Gallery of Ireland
Items in the exhibition were lent by private collectors and public collections including the V&A, Kew, and National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. The exhibition was inspired by Patricia Butler’s book Irish Botanical Illustrators and Flower Painters,
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READ my blog post about the exhibition Drawn from Nature: Irish Botanical Art at the National Gallery of Ireland which highlights the contemporary botanical artists (see below) who also exhibited work.
VIEW: Drawn from Nature | National Gallery of Ireland
VIEW: Drawn from Nature | National Gallery of Ireland
Contemporary botanical artists whose work featured in the exhibition
Bloom - Annual Botanical & Floral Art in Bloom Exhibition
Website: Annual Botanical & Floral Art Exhibition
Venue: Visitor’s Centre at Bloom Garden Festival, Phoenix Park Dublin
This is a juried open submission botanical and floral art exhibition held during the Horticultural Exhibition called Bloom run by Bord Bia (the Irish Food Board) which usually occurs at the end of May/beginning of June. It is open to international artists.
Venue: Visitor’s Centre at Bloom Garden Festival, Phoenix Park Dublin
This is a juried open submission botanical and floral art exhibition held during the Horticultural Exhibition called Bloom run by Bord Bia (the Irish Food Board) which usually occurs at the end of May/beginning of June. It is open to international artists.
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The main change in 2019 was the exhibition was extended to the whole of the month of June
Exhibition: 7th Annual Botanical and Floral Art in Bloom (Open Exhibition - as part of Bloom in the Park 2019) Venue: Phoenix Park Visitor Centre in Phoenix Park, Dublin (behind the Phoenix cafe) Dates: Thursday, 30th May to the end of June 2019 Exhibition: Bloom - Annual Botanical & Floral Art Exhibition (2018)
Venue: Visitor Centre in the Phoenix Park, Dublin - during Bloom Horticultural Exhibition, Dublin Dates: 31st May - 4th June 2018 Call for Entries for the 2018 will open in February 2018. See Call for Entries for 6th Annual Botanical and Floral Art in Bloom Exhibition 2017: 5th Annual Botanical & Floral Art Exhibition (2017)
Dates: 1st and 5th June 2017 2016: 4th Annual Botanical & Floral Art in Bloom Exhibition
Dates: Thursday, 2nd June to Monday, 6th June 2016 I wrote a number of blog posts including:
2015: 3rd Annual Botanical & Floral Art Exhibition Dates: 28th May - 1 June 2015 In 2015 there were 53 paintings in total and medals were awarded. See my blog post |
Gold Medal and Best Painting in Show 2019 - Red Rum by Siobhan Larkin (for the third time)
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Irish Society of Botanical Artists
Venue: Visitor Centre at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin - and various locations around Ireland
National Botanical Gardens, Dublin
Exhibition: Botanical Art Worldwide – Éireannach
Venue: National Botanical Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin
Dates: 5th -25th May 2018
This is the Irish contribution to the Botanical Art Worldwide Exhibition being held in 2018. The exhibition features botanical illustrations of Ireland’s native plants by Ireland’s botanical artists.
See my blog post about Selected Irish Artists for Éireannach Exhibition (Botanical Art Worldwide #7)
Venue: National Botanical Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin
Dates: 5th -25th May 2018
This is the Irish contribution to the Botanical Art Worldwide Exhibition being held in 2018. The exhibition features botanical illustrations of Ireland’s native plants by Ireland’s botanical artists.
See my blog post about Selected Irish Artists for Éireannach Exhibition (Botanical Art Worldwide #7)
Sceitse, Sketchbook Exhibition (2020)
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Exhibition: Sceitse, Sketchbook Exhibition
Venue: Visitor Centre at the National Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin Dates: 13th - 29th November 2020 This exhibition celebrates Irish gardens and the artists who use sketchbooks to record their research, drawings, colour-matching skills and test compositions. READ more about the planning for the exhibition on SCEITSE – IRISH BOTANICAL SKETCHBOOKS |
Sketchbook page by ISBA Member Loredana Geninazza
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Botanical Art Worldwide – Éireannach (2018)
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An open day was held on 18th May featuring:
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The 'Heritage Irish Plants – Plandaí Oidhreachta' Exhibition
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Venue: Visitor Centre at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin
Dates: Sunday 13 November until Sunday 4 December 2016 This exhibition celebrated Ireland's rich heritage of garden plants. All paintings were by members of the Irish Society of Botanical Artists. A book of the same name (a joint publication by the ISBA and the Irish Garden Plant Society), will be launched at an event on Saturday 12 November. |
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Aibítir: The Irish Alphabet in Botanical Art
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website: http://www.irishbotanicalartists.ie/projects/aibitir/
The inaugural exhibition of the Irish Society of Botanical Artists was opened on 1 May 2014 by Dr Shirley Sherwood at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin in Dublin. A total of 59 paintings successfully passed adjudication, and were unveiled to the public at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin in May 2014. |
Additional venues for Aibítir on Tour
2015
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Stones, Slabs and Seascapes: George Du Noyer’s Images of Ireland
Venue: Crawford Art Gallery, Cork Dates: 17 November 2017–24 February 2018 George Victor Du Noyer travelled the length and breadth of Ireland, sketching and recording as he went -including exquisite watercolours of Irish apple varieties, roses and other botanical specimens. |
"Irish Apples collected at Belfast" (1837) watercolour on paper, National Botanic Gardens
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Other Botanical Art Exhibitions
Birr Castle DemesneExhibition: ‘Birr Castle Demesne through the Artist’s eye’
Venue: Birr Castle - which includes award-winning gardens Dates: Sunday 13 September to Saturday 24 October 2020 The exhibition covered botanical art alongside floral painting and paintings of gardens. It included artwork by leading Irish botanical artists such as Susan Sex, Lynn Stringer, Shevaun Doherty, Mary Dillon, Patricia Newman, Holly Somerville and Yanny Petters amongst other artists contributing work to this exhibition. The present Earl, Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse, has been involved in plant hunting himself and collecting for the past 30 years. His father before him, the 6th Earl was also a great planter and collector |
Field of Vision Common Spotted Orchid Verre Eglomisé on convex glass 46cm high incl. frame - by Yanny Petters (2020)
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Other Botanical Art Groups
Flora Botanica
An exhibition by a small group of Irish Botanical Artists
Venue: Ranelagh Arts Centre, 26 Ranelagh, Dublin 6
Dates: 5 - 19th May 2016
Venue: Ranelagh Arts Centre, 26 Ranelagh, Dublin 6
Dates: 5 - 19th May 2016
Garden Art from Tourin
Venue: Tourin House, Cappoquin County Waterford
Dates: 9th - 16th October
This is the second of a series of ‘Gardens of Ireland Art Exhibitions’. It includes paintings by a number of international botanical artists. Kilmacurragh was the first garden to invite artists to paint subjects in the garden and exhibit their work in a successful show which ran at Glasnevin last year.
Dates: 9th - 16th October
This is the second of a series of ‘Gardens of Ireland Art Exhibitions’. It includes paintings by a number of international botanical artists. Kilmacurragh was the first garden to invite artists to paint subjects in the garden and exhibit their work in a successful show which ran at Glasnevin last year.
Claregalway Botanical Art Expo
The 4th Claregalway Botanical Art Expo (Saturday 4 July – Monday 6 July 2015) is an exhibition of Irish botanical art featuring some of the top botanical artists in Ireland. It is part of the annual Galway Garden Festival held at Claregalway Castle.
Solo Exhibitions by Botanical Artists (2018-2019)
The Olivier Cornet Gallery
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Field of Vision', botanical treasures in focus - a solo show by Yanny Petters A solo exhibition of Verre Eglomisé glass paintings by:
Yanny Petters Venue: Olivier Cornet Gallery, 3 Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1, D01 NV63, Ireland Dates: 10 Oct - 06 Nov 2021 Hours: Tuesday to Friday: 11am-6pm (till 8pm on Thursdays) Saturday & Sunday: 12 noon-5pm The exhibition will include at least 70 small Verre Eglomisé paintings of the wild plants that are in or closest to Yanny's own garden. They proportionally similar in shape to glass slides used in the old microscope. Each painting is 21cm x 8.5cm on 4mm glass and involves acid etching, drawing, painting and gilding in the technique of Verre Eglomisé. |
Each plant is drawn from nature, a selection from the myriad wild plants growing on about half an acre, native plants which all too often go un-noticed, but which are part of delicate and precious habitats. They include Spring flowers like Celandine, Primrose and Cowslip, Summer flowers from Bluebell, Foxglove and Poppy to Forget-me-not and Clover as well as Autumnal favourites like Bramble, Rowan and Hawthorn. 
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Exhibition: Hedgerow: Stories from a Linear World
Gallery Location: Olivier Cornet Gallery 3 Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1, Ireland Dates: 13 October - 17 November 2019 Solo exhibition by Yanny Petters of a series of black pencil drawings and Verre Eglomisé paintings from that iconic element of the Irish countryside, the Hedgerow. See my blog post Exhibition: Hedgerow: Stories from a linear world by Yanny Petters “Come with me, I’ll show you something beautiful” / “Komm mit mir, Ich zeig' Dir ‘was Schönes” Venue: The Olivier Cornet Gallery, 3 Great Denmark Street (beside Belvedere College, off Parnell Square) Dublin 1 Dates: 9 October - 6 November 2016. (It opens to the public tomorrow - 10th October) Irish botanical artist Yanny Petters's solo show of Verre Églomisé paintings (paintings on glass) depicted the twelve months of the year in the artist’s County Wicklow garden and celebrate the gifts of the artist’s mother to her daughter. |
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The Séamus Ennis Arts Centre
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'Hedgerows' by Yanny Petters
Venue: The Séamus Ennis Arts Centre, Naul, Fingal, Co. Dublin, K32 AY27, Ireland Dates: 15th April - June 2018 Yanny Petters presents a series of monotype nature prints of the plants associated with an iconic element of the Irish countryside, the Hedgerow. These are not only land boundaries with some dating back to Neolithic times. They are also a rich habitat with ancient hedges supporting up to 3000 organisms from flowers and trees, birds and animals to insects and microscopic creatures |
Hedgerow Bank 1 (Montotype / Nature Print 66x45cm) copyright Yanny Petters 2017
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