Hunter | Gatherer: Botanicals

Each of us has a connection to nature — a primal response to certain landscapes — yet we don’t always use it as raw material for our own work. Not content with “letting nature take its course”, the artists shown here reclaim and manipulate plant materials  to create their own botanical curiosities. From the epic installation Falling Garden by Swiss collaborators Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger to the exquisitely detailed Flower Constructions by Dutch artist Anne ten Donkelaar, the following examples reconsider the natural world in new and unusual ways.

Installation by Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger created for 2003 Venice Biennale

 

Flower Constructions by Dutch artist Anne Ten Donkelaar, created with pressed flowers and flowers cut from printed matter mounted three-dimensionally with specimen pins

 Flower Construction #23

Lottas Trees by Swedish artist Lotta Olsson

 Beech Tree

Leaves by English artist Susanna Bauer 

Trans-Plant #3, Magnolia leaves with cotton yarn

Rising I, magnolia leaves with cotton yarn

Environmental installations by Welsh artist Tim Pugh

Hunter/Gatherer is a themed collection of visual inspiration, sourced from the research of Laura Tarrish (www.lauratarrish.com), a graphic designer, illustrator, and ephemera collector based in Portland, Oregon.