Christine Johnson: Voyages Botanical

9 January – 21 February 2016

Voyages Botanical is Christine Johnson’s tribute to the untamed treasures of Australia’s vast native flower garden. It is indeed a voyage: through rare and wonderful landscapes, but also through our botanical heritage and history. Johnson’s delicate and beautifully-realised solar plate engravings of wildflowers are powerful symbols of the vulnerability and fragility of Australia’s natural environment and heritage.

IMAGE: CHRISTINE JOHNSON  Xerochrysum bracteatum (A series) 2014, Solar-plate engraving created from the original copper-plate engraving of a Sydney Parkinson drawing