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Botanicals

Botanicals is our Springtime show featuring more than 70 artists responding to the beauty of flora!

Fri 5 - Sun 21st September


Held in Springtime the show celebrates flowers, plants, nature and artists responses to the natural world. Includes a living botanicals arrangement by Sister Sister Flower Gallery. Full catalogue of images and listing of works found below.


KEY DATES:

Submissions close: Midnight Wed 6 August 2025

Selected artists announcement: Friday 8 August 2025

Artists deliver artwork: 10am – 2pm Wed 20th – Thurs 21st August 2025

Exhibition opening: Friday 5th September 6pm – 8pm

Exhibition Duration: Fri 5 – Sun 21 September 2025


List of works selected for the Botanicals exhibition:

First Name

Surname

Artwork Title

Aksara

Harriram

One night only

Alanya

van de Wiel

Polish Spirit House

Alessia

Sakoff

Eiji's Plum Blossom

Alexandra

Tanner

Towards The Sun

Alison

Sobel-Read

Earthen Bloom

Alita

Knaggs

The Acacia .. Fingal Bay

Amanda

O'Bryan

Desire, Ficus carica

Amanda

O'Bryan

Modesty, Ficus carica

Anne

Michael

Gum Blossoms

Bridie

Watt

Lady Camillia

Catharine

Neilson

Bougainvillea

Catherine

Kavanagh Di Gravio

Play Time in the Wallpaper Garden

Catherine

Tempest

Bow Street Hedge Row

Catherine

Hickson

She quietly slipped out and into the field

Cathy

Lane

Honey Song

Chloe

Hooper

Dying Youth

Christiana

Monored

Exuberant

Dan

Nelson

Wandering Fragrance

David

Griffen

Candelabra Tree (Euphorbia grandialata)

Eleanor J

Robinson

Yayoi's flowers

Elizabeth

Shoebridge

Mother's Day

Ella

Thomas

wattle revierie

Emma

Wilks

Snail Trails

Erin

Byfield-Huish

After The Bloom

Estelle

Leishman

Neighbourhood

Fiona

Heard

Livistona

Francois

Van der Walt

Paperbark Stay




Gwendolin

Lewis

FANTASY IN SUMMER

Indra

Deamer

Sticky beak

Jacqui

Hunstone

Favourite corner

Jax

Lisa

Soft Wild

Jenni

Armstrong

Echinacea Aura

Jennie

Williams

Urban Ikebana

Jennifer

Little

Theiere Recuperee Par La Nature IV (Teapot Reclaimed by Nature)

Jennifer

Little

Des Hommes Reconquis par la Nature (Men Reclaimed by Nature Hips II)

Joanna

Cole

Mother of Millions and the context of the tares.

Jodi

Thompson

Riley’s Pot

Joseph

Johnson & KIngs

Congratulations

Juli

Anderson

Banksia in Bloom

Julia

Jones

Canopy Windows

Julia

Polatos

Epidermis

Justin

Lees

After Your My Friend

Kate

Dufty

Smoulder

Kate

Madigan

Tomatillos Uno

Kate

Summers

Cornflowers and Flannel flowers on my dining table

Kelly

Freeman

Blooming Ink

Kerryn

Raco

Come See My Garden

Kitty

Henwood

Banksia & Botanica

Lauren

Sahu-Khan

Rosa Scent from Heaven

Leda

Turner

“I Saw The Light” (Nelumbo nucifera)

Lee

Seaman

Botanic Blueprint

Lesley

Rickman

Dandelion

Leslie

Duffin

Winsome's Gift

Linda

Lunnon

Pretty poison

Lisa

Morris-Pate

augmentation

Liz

Fox

Banksia Cacophany ll

Liz

Sherriff

TULIPS

Liz

Sherriff

IRIS

Louise

Faulkner

Daisy Chain

Lynnette

Passeri

Foliole

Madeleine

Prior

The Darkest Corners

Madeleine

Prior

Up In The Branches

Margaret

Lukas

Just Natives

Maria

Gallagher

Time to bloom

Marilyn

O'Brien

New Season

Martha

Moderitz

Tranquil Bloom

Megan

Barrass

Ruby

Megan

Srisurapon

Perennial Pixels

Mel

Hickey

The Frog Tree

Melanie

Norman

Where the Gumnuts Grow

Michael

Hannah

Radical Botanical

Nadia

Waters

Sipping The Nectar

Natalie

Rutkowska

Daisy

Olivia

Cotovich

Fruitful Summer

Rachael

Vogelzang

Beneath Weeping Olives

Rieteka

Geursen

50 Shades of Geranium; Study 5

Rieteka

Geursen

Grevillea

Rod

Pattenden

Hill End Sky

Rosemary

Cantwell

Okra

Sandra

Fisher

Forest Floor

Sarah

Box

'Everything is coming up roses'

Serena

Owen

Cotton flowers

Sharon

Williams

Wonderland

Sheryl

Cain

Pretty in Pink

Simone

Pilla

Bigger piece - incandescent flora by Goldie / vibrant botany by Goldie

Simone

Pilla

untamed botany { all my love, Tony } by Goldie

Suzie

Bailey

"Sun Day"

Tamasin

Collins

‘Mother Earth’ - single botanical collage

Tanith

King

Winter Blossoms

Vanessa

Turton

Blooms That Watch

Zoë

Tjanavaras

“Triple Bloom the Chorós of Spring - triptych


Further info for exhibiting artists:

https://www.newcastleartspace.org.au/botanicals-submission-info


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NEWCASTLE ART SPACE 2020

The website was funded by the Australia Council for the Arts Resilience Fund.

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