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- Title(s):
- [Dandelion] : [Taraxacum officinale].
- Additional Title(s):
- Nine wild plants
- Published/Created:
- 2005-2006.
- Physical Description:
- 1 collage ; 40 x 39 cm, on sheet 42 x 29 cm and 1 drawing : pen and black ink ; 22 x 24 cm, on sheet 44 x 28
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and Manuscripts Folio B 2016 4bYale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art FundAccessible in the Study Room [Request]Rare Books and Manuscripts Folio B 2016 4cYale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art FundAccessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Copyright Status:
- © 2020 Tracey Bush
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/alma/99116851413408651
- Classification:
- Visual Materials
- Notes:
- "[Bush] began Nine Wild Plants after reading ecological thinkers, including Paul Hawken, who notes that the average Western adult can recognise over 1000 brand names or logos, but fewer than ten local, indigenous plants. Posing the question 'Which nine wild plants could you confidently identify?' Bush began emailing a range of people and collecting their responses....Central to the exhibition was a series of nine, large-scale, collages drawings including the stinging nettle, buttercup and poppy....Bush referred to the Herbarium Handbook as well as to her own observed drawings to make templates for hand-drawn plant silhouettes..."--Emma Hill, Printmaking Today.
Other items produced for Bush's exhibition Nine Wild Plants and now in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art: the finished collage of Meadow buttercup (Ranunculus acris); the finished collage of Field poppy (Papaver rhoeas); and sketch no. 4 of Common nettle (Urtica dioica). The collection also includes a copy of the Nine wild plants artist's book.
BAC Folio B 2016 4b: "Sketch no. 1." Pen and black ink drawing depicting the disconnected leaves and stems of a dandelion; one leaf is partially filled with Marlboro packaging. Specimen label in pen and black ink, lower right: 'Flora of [Britain]. Botanical name: [Taraxacum officinale]. Vernacular name: [Dandelion]. Altitude. Date: [14th August 2005]. Habitat: [Parkland/mixed meadow]. Notes: [Very few flower heads]. Collector: [Tracey Bush]. No: [1].' Signed at lower left: 'Sketch no. 1. Herb/01/05.'
BAC Folio B 2016 4c: "Drawing no. 1." Collage of commercial paper packaging fragments supplemented with pen and black ink to create an accurate silhouette of a Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). On 100% rag herbarium paper. Titled at lower right, in graphite. Signed and dated by the artist in graphite.
Preliminary collage study ("Drawing no. 1") and sketch ("Sketch no. 1") for Dandelion, one of nine collages made by Tracey Bush for her 2006 solo exhibition Nine Wild Plants. - Subject Terms:
- Botanical illustration -- Great Britain.Branding (Marketing)Dandelions.Hawken, Paul. Declaration of sustainability.Logos (Symbols)Plants -- Great Britain.Plants -- Identification.Wild flowers -- Great Britain.Wild flowers -- Identification.Women in natural history.
- Form/Genre:
- Cut-paper works.
Collages (visual works)
Ink drawings.
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"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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