'Our Plants - Past, Present and Future'
O Tātou Tipu o Mua - o Ināianei me te Āpōpō'
Click on the image below to see all 1,000+ artworks being shown around the world for Worldwide Day of Botanical Art 2025
ART WORKSHOPS
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Watercolour on Vellum
With Lesley Alexander
When: Saturday 10th May
Time: 10am - 12.30pm
Where: UNITEC Building
Auckland Botanic GardensCost: $75
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Watercolour on Vellum
With Lesley Alexander
When: Saturday 10th May
Time: 1pm - 3.30pm
Where: UNITEC Building
Auckland Botanic GardensCost: $75
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Botanical Watercolour for Beginners
With Lesley Alexander
When: Saturday 24th May
Time: 10am - 12.30pm
Where: UNITEC Building
Auckland Botanic GardensCost: $75
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Botanical Watercolours for Beginners
With Lesley Alexander
When: Saturday 24th May
Time: 1pm - 3.30pm
Where: UNITEC Building
Auckland Botanic GardensCost: $75
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Polysol Dye and Lino Cut
WIth Val Cuthbert
When: Saturday 24 May
Time: 10am - 12pm
Where: Friends Building
Auckland Botanic GardensCost: $30
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Geli Plate and Lino
WIth Val Cuthbert
When: Saturday 14th June
Time: 10am - 12pm
Where: Logan Campbell Building
Auckland Botanic GardensCost: $30 (15yrs +)
World Day of Botanical Art
18 May 2025
Join us for the weekend to celebrate Botanical Art around the world.
In the Huakaiwakawaka Visitor Centre
Auckland Botanic Gardens
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COME ALONG AND SEE:
ALL WEEKEND
Stunning artwork - 47 artworks by 30 New Zealand artistsSee a slideshow of all 30 countries artwork - showing all day on a big screen
Meet artists in the gallery or drawing in the gardens - why not bring your sketchbook and join them!
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ARTIST DEMONSTRATIONS
in the Library Foyer 10am - 4pm
10am – 11.30am:
1. Jennifer Duval-Smith - Watercolour
2. Megan Lockwood - Watercolour11.30am - 1pm:
1. Lesley Alexander - Pen & ink
2. Val Cuthbert - Lino and geli plate printing1pm - 2.30pm:
1. Sandra Morris - Plant printing
2. Megan Lockwood - Watercolour2.30pm - 4pm:
1. Sandra Morris - Colour pencil
2. Lesley Alexander - Watercolour on Vellum -
COME ALONG AND SEE:
ALL WEEKEND
Stunning artwork - 47 artworks by 30 New Zealand artistsSee a slideshow of all 30 countries artwork - showing all day on a big screen
Meet artists in the gallery or drawing in the gardens - why not bring your sketchbook and join them!
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9am - we start the day with a Powhiri. If you wish to come along, be outside the visitor centre at 8.45am
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ARTIST DEMONSTRATIONS
in the Library Foyer 10am - 1.30pm
10am - 11.15am
1. TBC
2. TBC11.15am - 12.30pm
1. Lesley Alexander - Watercolour on vellum
2. Sandra Morris - Ink and wash12.30pm - 1.30pm
1. Erin Forsyth - Gouache
2. TBC*****
2pm - ‘Te korowai o Papatuanuku – the Cloak of the Earth Mother’,
a talk by Dr Nick Roskruge. Free to attend but numbers are limited. Please RSVP with numbers attending to friendsofabg@gmail.com by Thursday, May 8th
March 29 2025
Official Opening
Artists, their families and invited guests came to celebrate the opening of
'Our Plants - Past, Present and Future'
O Tātou Tipu o Mua - o Ināianei me te Āpōpō'
Amanda Ffion Bell, Annette Judd, Bernard Salmon, Birgit Rhode, Cathy Brickhill, Claire Broughton, Erin Forsyth, Flo Pirotais, Gillian Receveur, Helen Gunter, Jane Marshall Fitzgerald, Janet Marshall,
Jennifer Duval-Smith, Jenny Haslimeier, Jenny Lee, Jo Ewing, Katharine Allard, K M Reilly,
Lesley Alexander, Lisa Dickson, Lorraine Thompson, Megan Lockwood, Michelle Freeborn
Sandra Morris, Sara Bissielo, Sigurd Wilbanks, Sue Wickison, Valerie Cuthbert, Wilma Blom,
Yvonne Vannoort
Many Congratulations to the exhibiting artists who have had work selected for this exhibition
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Sunday 18th May - World Day of Botanical Art
Saturday/Sunday 17/18th May - Weekend of Botanical Art
29th June - Auckland Exhibition closes
1st August – 30th September - Wellington Botanic Gardens
17th October – 7th December - Ashburton Art Gallery
7th December - Exhibition ends, all work returned to Auckland
BASNZ and The Friends of Auckland Botanic Gardens are delighted to announce that following the huge success of Botanical Art Worldwide exhibition in 2018, there will be another Botanical Art Worldwide in 2025.
The theme for this exhibition is ‘Crop Diversity’. The American Society of Botanical Artist’s steering committee for the Botanical Art Worldwide decided on the theme and say -
‘The second Botanical Art Worldwide Project will focus on and celebrate biodiversity in the crops that have been closely associated with the human species over thousands of years. The theme is designed to draw attention to the vast variety of food and useful plants available, in contrast with the relatively few varieties currently used in mass cultivation. Plants eligible for inclusion are those cultivated for food, textiles, building, energy, and medicine.
Currently, many heritage species and varieties are only cultivated in small quantities by specialist growers on a limited scale. It is vital to promote this genetic diversity in a world challenged by a growing population, changing climate, and habitat losses.’
www.botanicalartworldwide.info; February 2022
All correspondence regarding this exhibition should be emailed to baww25nz@gmail.com
Useful websites -
The Heritage Food Crop Research Centre in Whanganui is a great source of information
‘Kōanga’ is home to a large collection of heritage food crops based in Wairoa, Northern hawkes Bay
‘Sentinels Group’ are a collective of New Zealand based hobby growers offering heirloom and locally adapted seed lines for sale.
Riverton Environment Centre is home to the South Coast Environment Society, which heads a number of community and environment initiatives in the Southland Region of New Zealand. They have a page for identifying heritage apples and a seed savers page where you can find out more about heritage seeds suitable for growing in the south of NZ.