Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Open every day 10am-6pm
(except Christmas Day)
Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Botanical artist Audrey Eagle (1925–2022) painted New Zealand’s native plants from 1952, culminating in the 2006 publication of her life’s work, Eagle’s Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand, which won the prestigious Montana Medal for non-fiction in 2007. Audrey was awarded the CNZM for Services to Botanical Arts in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honors and was conferred an honorary Doctorate of Science by the University of Otago in 2013. She lived in Dunedin.
Photo by Alan Dove Photography.
Every known native New Zealand tree and shrub – in colour and life size. Winner of the Montana Medal for Non-fiction 2007 and winner of the Illustrative section of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2007.
The Essential Audrey Eagle: Botanical Art of New Zealand offers botanists, gardeners, and art lovers Audrey Eagle’s exquisite botanical artworks – in a compact, portable format.
Botanical artist Audrey Eagle, author of the Montana medal-winning ‘Eagle’s Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand’, talks about her remarkable life and work.
A stunning range of personal notebooks and boxed cards, featuring a popular selection of Audrey Eagle’s celebrated botanical artwork of New Zealand flora. This beautifully produced range of products accompanies Te Papa Press’s new The Essential Audrey Eagle: Botanical Art of New Zealand.
