46 artworks have been selected for the Botanical Art Worldwide - America's Flora at the US Botanical Garden in Washington DC - opening May 2018.
The names of the Selected Artists were announced last week.
Many thanks to the artists who kindly supplied images of artwork selected for the exhibition as a hint of what is to come!
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The Botanical Art Worldwide Exhibition has a brand new and fabulous website at https://www.botanicalartworldwide.info. One of the great things about it are the wonderful images used on some of the pages which highlight the diversity of plant life on earth and in the different participating countries. The website includes an ABOUT page highlighting the goals of the project, the participating countries and how the project is organised. I see somebody agreed with me that 'a global view' was the appropriate image for the top of the page! (see my page on the Worldwide Exhibition of Botanical Art 2018 in the Exhibition section - which has a summary on one page). I like the little leaf icons to indicate which countries are participating. It also has sections devoted to Events and News. (The latter needs a method for subscribing to news - but I'm sure that will arrive as news begins to get posted) The Countries section highlights all the participating countries, plus links to where more information can be found about that country's exhibition (calls for entries; dates and venue of the exhibition etc.). Some countries have created independent websites for the exhibition which are seperate from the relevant organisation for that country. The names of their exhibitions which, to date, are as follows (link to the page embedded below in the name of the exhibition). This is not the order on the website - but 'Botanical Art and Artists' does everything by continent so I'm reordering the list in this blog post into continents! Africa
Note: For those wondering..... The website is using SquareSpace (I know one when I see one!). This has been a top web-ware solution for some years for those needing well designed and high performing websites with templates well suited to art websites. I've been wondering what would be chosen for this global initiative and I'm really pleased with the choice - it's one of my favourites. I have every confidence it will cope well as the exhibition expands and the associated website needs to expand and needs galleries / videos etc. The virtual exhibition will look brilliant!
The NEW Association of `British Botanical Artists (ABBA) today announced its Call for Entries for the UK contribution to the Worldwide Botanical Art Exhibition in 2018.
In brief:
In Ruskin's footsteps - "Linking people to plants through botanical art" The exhibition is OPEN to:
Eligibility: Artists can enter one country’s exhibition, and that is the country of the artist’s primary residence. If an artist’s country of residence is not holding a worldwide exhibition, and the artist has some connection with the UK, the UK can invite the artist to submit an entry to the British exhibition. The Call for Entries provides all the details that artists need to know at this stage. Here's the basics of what's required
All entries will be juried by a prestigious team of professional artists, scientists and curators (to be announced at a later date). The paintings will be assessed according to:
In terms of dates there is no time to lose! If interested please note the following dates for the two stage application/submission process
For further information you can meet with representatives of ABBA at the RHS London Botanical Art Show on the 24th and 25th February. I'm just really pleased to see this exhibition get off the ground. I was involved in getting it started in the Autumn and wrote a very long brief for what needed to be done - which was an awful lot! Many congratulations are due to all those involved in making the exhibition real and finding a venue (which is really not easy in May!) I know for a fact that there must have been an awful lot of work involved to get this far. I've created a page on my website for a summary of the Worldwide Exhibition of Botanical Art in 2018. This includes:
The official Botanical Art Worldwide website contains comprehensive information about the exhibition and can be found at https://www.botanicalartworldwide.info/ Participating countries Each of the entries for countries that have announced their intention to participate includes:
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THE ENTRY FOR YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS UPDATING. A note of concern My understanding when the exhibition was announced was this exhibition is open to botanical artists all over the world. I've checked with the outline I received and it states Original botanical artworks juried from submissions of artists residing in each participating country In other words if you are a botanical artist who lives in a country you can enter work for that country's exhibition.
Consequently I was extremely surprised and concerned to see an additional limiting constrain introduced. Some of the Call for Entries define the eligible artist as "being a member in good standing with (name of botanical art society)". I have to emphasise that I think this is really sad. This exhibition goes way beyond the normal exhibitions held on a regular basis by groups of botanical artists around the world. Indeed one of the themes of the exhibition is the degree of collaboration required to hold the exhibition. It's extremely sad that exhibitions in some countries will not be reaching out to those excellent botanical artists who choose - for various and excellent personal and professional reasons - not to belong to an art society or group. I can think of many professional botanical illustrators and other well regarded and world renowned botanical artists who don't belong to a botanical art society. It would be such a pity if they were denied the opportunity to exhibit in this exhibition. By all means charge non-members a higher fee - as happens in normal open exhibitions. Just don't exclude excellent botanical art of native plants because someone might not be a big fan of 'clubs'. I do hope there'll be a rethink.... |
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