Plantae Amazonicae: art, ethnobotany and biocultural artefacts
Monday 14 May 2018, 6-7.25pm
School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London
Room G01, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
What do art and botany tell us about the Amazon? Artist Lindsay Sekulowicz’s latest exhibition Plantae Amazonicae is the culmination of a decade of work with botanists at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and a wider research team in the UK and Brazil who are examining the collections of 19th century botanist and explorer Richard Spruce. Along with the artist, panellists Antje Southern (Royal Drawing School), William Milliken (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew) and Luciana Martins (Birkbeck) will tell us about the encounter between academics, artists and scientists.
A drinks reception will follow.
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‘Gigantic children of the sun’: Kew’s Palm House
Thursday 17 May 2018, 6-7.25pm
School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London
Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Opened in 1848, Kew’s Palm House staged a tropical landscape just outside London. Reconstructing a visit to the Victorian Palm House, Kate Teltscher (University of Roehampton) will explore the nineteenth-century commercial and cultural obsession with palms, in conversation with Luciana Martins (Birkbeck).
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