The Silent Archive (group show), Inverleith House, The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, January - May 2024
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Etchings, cuttings from the RBGE collection; items from the RBGE collection; Kola nuts, Castor Beans
2024
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A series of etchings that explore the complex history of plants, their migrations and how they interweave with human histories. Presented here are six specimens paired with the cuttings about them that are held at RGBE and explored in relation to economic botany and the origins of botanical gardens, Empire, colonialism, their medicinal and other uses, and, in the Silent Archive exhibition, the transatlantic slave trade.