Flora
This big, glorious 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.
Carlos Lehnebach is Curator Botany at Te Papa. He studies the diversity, evolution and conservation of New Zealand flowering plants. His main groups of interest are terrestrial and epiphytic orchids, alpine plants, and plants shared with other land masses in the Southern Hemisphere.
,Claire Regnault is Senior Curator New Zealand Histories & Cultures at Te Papa. She is particularly interested in New Zealand’s dress histories, and associated industries including fashion photography, textile design, retail and promotion.
She is the author of Dressed: Fashionable Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand from 1840 to 1910 (2021), winner of the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction; New Zealand Gown of the Year (2003); and co-author of The Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design Since 1940 (2010). She is the President of Costume & Textiles Aotearoa New Zealand, and a member of the Eden Hore Central Otago steering committee.
,Rebecca Rice is Curator of New Zealand Historical Art at Te Papa
,Isaac Te Awa is Curator Mātauranga Māori at Te Papa. He is a practising weaver and is actively collecting for Te Papa’s contemporary taonga Māori collection.
- ISBN-13
- 9781991150912
- Publisher
- Te Papa Press
- Imprint
- Te Papa Press
- Publication date
- 20 December 2023
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 452
- Dimensions
- 290 x 250 mm
- Language
- English