Most of you who read my posts will know I am keen on showing you the very many new and exciting flowers I come across in Australia. So it is like a calling when Museum of Brisbane puts on an exhibition with the above name -Well known artists such as Vida Lahey and Margaret Olley are featured. The exhibition is not quite as one dimensional as my presentations and I am happy to bring you some of the exhibits which spoke to me.

Keith Burt paints flowers from everyday life. Playing with still life and light. His favourite is the native waratah.

Sarah Rayner collects seeds and twigs and flowers from her garden and then uses the silky texture of porcelain to recreate them the way she lays them out or draws them.

Pamela See is interested in the history of Chinese Communities in Australia. Her art form which is of cut out paper is reminiscent of a style in her mother’s province of Guandong in China. She recreates the vegetables and flowers sold by Chinese market gardeners in Brisbane.

Elisa Jane Carmichael is a Ngugi woman. She makes these works by placing wildflowers and weaves on the paper and then exposing it to sunlight to create the series of Cyanotypes she calles ragi or bush from the Jendai language.

Jaishree Srinavasan has created 800 ceramic petals inspired by the jasmine flower, reminiscent of her childhood in South India but also Brisbane.

Finally but by no means least this garland banner of crocheted and knitted flowers.

Milomirka Radovic learnt to crochet, knit and spin from her Serbian mother and grandmother. She became a chartered engineer of textile technology. Now retired, she makes her own gardens from her crochet and knitted creations.

The exhibition is on the 3rd floor of Brisbane City Hall and is on until August of 2024.

Rearranged: Art of the Flower