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Exhibitions > 2013

15 November 2013 - 05 December 2013

A Natural Selection
At The National Botanic Gardens, Dublin

A Natural Selection is an unusual opportunity to purchase a rare specimen at a common or garden price! 100 renowned Printmakers have produced 100 original prints in editions of 100 based on the riches of the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin. These are available to you at the amazingly affordable price of €100. Beneficiaries will be Graphic Studio Dublin, the artists and you the buyer!

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An Exhibition Of Fine Art Prints inspired by The National Botanic Gardens Dublin. The National Botanic Gardens were founded in 1795 in a golden age of exploration and scientific discovery. During those extraordinary times, expeditions set out from Europe to every corner of the globe, exploring, opening trade routes and seeking knowledge about the natural world.

This was a romantic era of botanist plant-hunters who journeyed, often in difficult conditions, in search of botanical specimens to carry home for study and cultivation. The naturalist Charles Darwin was one such explorer whose famous voyage around the world on the HMS Beagle and whose subsequent studies led to the publication of his seminal work On the Origin of Species, a work which radically changed our perception of the natural world. The term 'Natural Selection' was coined by Darwin to describe how natural forms evolve differently in different locations, to suit their specific environments.

There has always been an important link between botany and the visual arts. The desireto capture botanic images is rooted in antiquity. We find it in the Minoan palaces at Knossos, in the frescoes of Pompeii and in Egyptian tomb painting. In the 16th century, Albrecht Durer's work displayed a new naturalism in the depiction of plants. In France, in the early 1800s, the Belgian artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté was appointed official artist by the Empress Josephine. The sumptuous images from his almost fifty publications based on the EmpressÕ gardens at the Ch‰teau de Malmaison remain in reproduction to this day. For over three hundred years printmaking has been an integral part of botanical research and discovery, and vice versa.

This exhibition, organized by a group of artists who are members of Graphic Studio Dublin, unveils 100 fine art prints by 100 artists from Ireland and overseas. This ambitious project has brought together artists from Ireland Ð North and South, alongside artists from Finland, Germany, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden and United Kingdom. In approaching their work, the participating artists were asked to consider all aspects of the National Botanic Gardens: the 170,000 different species of cultivated forms within the collection, the natural beauty of the gardens at Glasnevin in Dublin and the arboretum at Kilmacurragh Co. Wicklow, their renowned architectural features like the spectacular Curvilinear Range of Glasshouses and the Palm House, and their continuing scientific and botanical research work.

The result is an exceptional exhibition of fine art prints ranging from the figurative - beautiful botanical records, to the conceptual - exploring the shared space between the artist and the natural world. In their different and individual ways the artists have been inspired by and have paid tribute to the richness and diversity of the natural world and to the work of a great institution, an institution which is filled with treasure, and which is itself one of Ireland's national treasures, the National Botanic Gardens.

Plant collecting and printmaking share a similar characteristic insofar as the propagation of plants mirrors the multiplicity of an edition of prints. In its turn, this shared characteristic facilitates access to people for their enjoyment and inspiration. In this spirit, all the participating artists have agreed to allow their respective works to be purchased at the unusually affordable price of €100 each. This is an opportunity for all those who appreciate art and botany to acquire an original work of art at a modest price, in the knowledge that the proceeds will go to support Graphic Studio Dublin and the participating artists.

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The image size is 13 x 12 cm and the Paper size is 32 x 28 cm. Prices for unframed work are €113.5 inc. VAT of 13.5% and are available from Graphic Studio Gallery from the 5th December 2013.
MORE IMAGES TO COME...

Sophie Aghajanian Buddleia Etching & gold leaf Ed. of 100 €113.50	Yoko Akino Soon, this too will be a memory Etching & aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50	James Allen Wisteria Sinensis Etching & aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Anne Anderson Fritillaria Imperialis Linocut Ed. of 100 €113.50
Paul Bailey Arbor Photoetching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Jean Bardon Lupins Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Ailbhe Barrett Salix x Sepulcralis Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Brian Barry Venus Eye Trap Linocut Ed. of 100 €113.50
Margaret Becker Botanical Bloom Etching & drypoint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Carmel Benson Ancient Yew Grove Drypoint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Carmel Benson Bright Fire Drypoint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Caroline Brophy Aeonium close-up Solar-plate etching with Chine Colle Ed. of 100 €113.50
John Campion Rose Petal Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Gerard Cox Full Moon and Bamboo Woodblock Ed. of 100 €113.50	Gráinne Cuffe Clematis orientalis (L) Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Zoe Dalton Tree heart Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50
Diarmuid Delargy Salix Babylonica Sugar lift, etching & engraving Ed. of 100 €113.50	Aisling Dolan Watchful Photoetching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Grainne Dowling What was that noise? Etching & aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Joe Dunne Strelitzia Reginae Carborundum with egg tempera Ed. of 100 €113.50
Susan Early Cacti Etching with aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Susan Early Curvilinear Range Etching with aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Camilla Fanning Kilmacurragh Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Paul Fitters Philodendron Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50
Aidan Flanagan Quercus Suber Screenprint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Niamh Flanagan Part 1: in which a cactus speaks of love and loneliness Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Niamh Flanagan Part II: in which heads of lettuce dance unaware & snails lurk below Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Jane Garland The sun and the Rain Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50
Mary Grey Where Giants sleep Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Seán Hanrahan Tulipa Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Clare Henderson Quietly, he passed us by Etching with drypoint and chine collé Ed. of 100 €113.50	Rebecca Homfray Outside the Shell Linocut Ed. of 100 €113.50
Siobhan Hyde Reap and Sow Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Lilian Ingram Take Root Beneath Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Peter Jones Yellow Echinacea Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Margaret Kallen Ipomoea Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50
Brian Lalor 'As the leaves of the trees are the generations of men', the Great Palm House, Glasnevin Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Jennifer Lane Leaf & light Woodblock Ed. of 100 €113.50	Stephen Lawlor Extranjero Spitbite & Aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Louise Leonard Catching the light Etching & Aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50
Louise Leonard Pine Hill Etching & Aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Pamela Leonard Seeking Space Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Mo Levy Floralis Relief print Ed. of 100 €113.50	Rachel Likely Prickly Pair Lithograph Ed. of 100 €113.50
David Lilburn A visit to the Botanic Gardens Drypoint, roulette & engraving Ed. of 100 €113.50	Daniel Lipstein Tall Pine at the GardenÕs Depth Etching & Aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50	David Lunney Some Bushes Etching & Aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Niamh Mac Gowan Kilmacurragh Vista Etching & Aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50
Bernadette Madden Spotlight on the Gardens Screenprint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Kelvin Mann Grand day for the insects Photoetching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Susan Mannion Botanic Reflections Wood Engraving Ed. of 100 €113.50	Marie-Louise Martin Mid-winter Gardens Drypoint Ed. of 100 €113.50
James McCreary Tulip Mezzotint & Aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50	James McCreary Lilies Mezzotint & Aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Margaret McLoughlin Dappled Shadows Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Margo McNulty Jovibarba Photoetching Ed. of 100 €113.50
Frieda Meaney Ceannbhán Etching & Aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Niall Naessens Falling Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Lars Nyberg Unknown Plant Drypoint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Liam Ó Broin Wild Iris Lithograph Ed. of 100 €113.50
Gavin O'Connor Slipper Orchid Mezzotint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Ruth O'Donnell Nightingale in the Rose Garden Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Ciara O'Hara Eucalyptus & Cabbage White Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Noelle O'Keeffe In the Rose Garden Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50
Gay O'Neill Tidying Up! Drypoint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Leila Pedersen Untitled Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Mary Plunkett Wrenn's Nest Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Sarah Rogers The Afternoon Knows What The Morning Never Suspected Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50
Piia Rossi Taxus Baccata Woodcut & silver leaf Ed. of 100 €113.50	Robert Russell Blue Blossoms and Butterfly Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Dermot Ryan Calla Lily Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50	Deirdre Shanley Tropical Plant Etching Ed. of 100 €113.50
Cecilia Stephens Lavatera Arborea Drypoint chine colle'd over mallow paper Ed. of 100 €113.50	Adrienne Symes Fiery Ferns Etching & Aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50	Catherine Thompson Delphinium Blue Linocut Ed. of 100 €113.50	Elke Thonnes Curvilinear Photoetching & Embossing Ed. of 100 €113.50
Michael Timmins Dispersal Lithograph Ed. of 100 €113.50	Marta Wakula-Mac Magnolia VI Etching & Aquatint Ed. of 100 €113.50

Exhibitions > 2013

15 November 2013 - 05 December 2013

A Natural Selection At The National Botanic Gardens, Dublin

A Natural Selection
At The National Botanic Gardens, Dublin