Protecting Biodiversity
Still continuing the work, but now outside of the Herbarium, I have been making a series of large totemic shields in clay. The patterns...
Playing 'Top Trumps' in the archive
The Gardenia fruit Top Trumps Game has come from the printer! The pack contains all 68 different species that I have found in the drawers...
My definition is this?
One of the things I wanted to explore in the Herbarium was how botanists organise the visual information from the plants, e.g. leaf and...
The art of time-travelling....slowly
I am looking at the variety of shapes that Nature created with the DNA of the Gardenia species. Because I can't work with messy materials...
"It is fairly widely known that the plants have hatreds between themselves " ... and the b
I navigate the herbarium corridors and think of a little text I just read: "It is fairly widely known that the plants have hatreds...
By their fruits shall ye know them
Speaking to some of the scientists last week, I found out that a recognised method to identify plants is using 'Gestalt' - just like we...
Going down the rabbit hole....
It is a pleasure to become lost looking for the tearoom, the whole building is full of interesting finds. We are both getting too many...
A Bit of Kew's Herbarium History
I seat by the window at my desk in Kew Gardens Herbarium, I look around myself, and I see cabinets and cabinets filled with plants from...
The "Carp" Collection
Johanna is looking at the 'Carp.' collection of Rubiaceae (family) Gardenia (genus). The 'Carp.' collection of fruits is housed in...
Kew Herbarium Residency begins
Hi! We are Johanna Bolton and Maria Lusitano, two visual artists based in London. One year ago we visited Kew Gardens Herbarium and...
