Botanical Art: Catherine Field-Dodgson and Rebecca Rice in conversation
Explore Aotearoa New Zealand’s rich history of botanical art with the authors of two stunning coffee-table art books from Te Papa Press.
Thu 28 Aug, 6.00pm–7.30pm, Schrödinger’s Books
Schrödinger’s Books, 137 Jackson Street, Petone, Lower Hutt
$5.00
Explore Aotearoa New Zealand’s rich history of botanical art with Rebecca Rice, Senior Curator Art at Te Papa and co-editor of Flora, and Catherine Field-Dodgson, co-author of Groundwork.
Flora: Celebrating Our Botanical World mines Te Papa’s collections to explore and expand upon the way we think about our botanical world and its cultural imprint.
Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris brings to light one of New Zealand’s most significant botanical artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
About the authors
Dr Rebecca Rice (FLORA) is Senior Curator Art at Te Papa. She has a special interest in early botanical art, particularly the relationship between art and science. Recently, Rebecca has been working with her natural history colleagues to research Te Papa’s extensive holdings of material by artist and botanist, Nancy Adams.
Catherine Field-Dodgson (Groundwork) is the author of a 2003 Master’s thesis that included the first detailed study of Emily Harris’s exhibiting practices. She is currently researching her great-great-grandmother Keita Halbert/Wyllie/Gannon and her connections to Tūranganui-a-Kiwa.
