Botanical Art Worldwide 2025 | Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum
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Dec 7, 2025Posted on
Oct 15, 2025Event type:
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Ashburton Art Gallery and MuseumAddress:
327 West Street, Ashburton, 7700Region:
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Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum are excited to be exhibiting the Aotearoa New Zealand Botanical Art Worldwide exhibition for 2025, which has been displayed at the Botanic Gardens in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.
Botanical Art Worldwide 2025 is the second iteration of a project in which artists around the world join together to curate simultaneous exhibitions of botanical art. The exhibitions created aim to raise awareness of the rejuvenation of this art form and bring attention to plants and their importance to humanity.
This second Botanical Art Worldwide Project celebrates the biodiversity in crops that have been closely associated with the human species over thousands of years. The theme is designed to draw attention to the vast variety of food and useful plants available, in contrast with the relatively few varieties currently used in mass cultivation. Plants eligible for inclusion were those cultivated for food, textiles, building, energy, and medicine.