Flora: Celebrating Our Botanical World

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Flora: Celebrating Our Botanical World Editors: Carlos Lehnebach, Claire Regnault, Rebecca Rice, Isaac Te Awa, Rachel Yates Format: Hardback First Published: Published By: Te Papa Press
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Pages: 452 Illustrations and other contents: Over 400 full-colour images Language: English ISBN: 9781991150912 Categories: , , , , ,

This big, glorious big book mines Te Papa’s collections to explore and expand upon the way we think about our botanical world and its cultural imprint. A true treasure, it features over 400 selections by an expert, cross-disciplinary museum curatorial team that range from botanical specimens and art to photography, furniture, jewellery, tivaevae, applied art, textiles, stamps and more. Flora’s twelve essays provide a deeper contextual understanding of different topics, including the unique characteristics of New Zealand flora as well as how artists and cultures have used flora as a motif and a subject over time. Elegant, expert and engrossing.

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"Every one of the 402 images in this book is a love letter and a testament to human life entangled with the lives of plants. Te Papa’s large curatorial team, who spend their days steeped in this glorious collection, have dug deep to find those stories, and to share them with us. Open Flora on any page and you will be drawn into and immersed in those stories. What pleasure, what joy, what richness, what abundance, what love" -- Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books, reviewed by Joyce Campbell

Author Biography

Carlos Lehnebach is Curator Botany at Te Papa. His expertise lies in the native orchids of Aotearoa. Claire Regnault is Senior Curator New Zealand Histories and Cultures at Te Papa. She is the author of several books. Her most recent, Dressed, won the Illustrated Non-Fiction Award at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Rebecca Rice is Curator of New Zealand Historical Art at Te Papa and has a special interest in early botanical art. She is working on a book on the taonga associated with the New Zealand Wars held at Te Papa. Isaac Te Awa is Curator Matauranga Maori at Te Papa. He is a practising weaver and is actively collecting for Te Papa's contemporary taonga Maori collection. Rachel Yates is a former Curator Pacific Cultures at Te Papa, where she worked closely with Pacific maker communities. She now works for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.