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General Lab Facilities
General Lab Facilities
Biosecurity Plant health and host/pathogen interactions: our laboratory facilities are licensed for work with quarantine listed plant pathogens, either on host plant material, soil or as pure cultures. We also have facilities to support research on…
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Visiting RBGE Library
Visiting the Library
Access is by appointment only - please see the Opening Hours page to find out more. Books and other items from the collections will be retrieved for you by Library staff and made available for consultation in the Reading Room where visitors also…
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Apply to Join the Workshop
Apply to Join the Workshop
The workshop will use the RBGE's extensive collection of botanical artworks, prints and photographic materials, as a starting point for an exploration of the challenges and opportunities relating to the creation and curation of botanical art and…
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Criteria for Applicants
Criteria for Applicants
1. Expertise / Knowledge Demonstrable involvement in the creation and / or curation of botanical art or art involving plants; we use a broad definition that includes any artistic output inspired by or featuring plants, fungi, and…
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Franz West: Mostly West
2013 - West
Mostly West encapsulates West's belief in the juxtaposition of various artistic viewpoints through collaboration and in art as a participatory activity. His hugely influential Adaptives, early sculptural works begun in 1974, were made to be held…
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Joan Mitchell
2010 - Mitchell
"I paint from landscapes of the memory I carry with me and feelings from the memory of them which naturally become transformed... I prefer to leave nature to itself. I do not intend to improve it... I could never mirror it. I love most of all what…
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John McCracken
2009 - McCracken
John McCrackenInstallation view: Inverleith House, 2009 From left to right: Luster, 2006; Stardust, 2006; Ring, 2006.Private collection, courtesy David Zwirner, New YorkPhotograph: Ruth Clark On 1 January, 1966 the Californian artist John…
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John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884): Nature Study
2008 - Balfour
Artist unknown: "Linum usitatissimum L., Common flax", Pre-1859. watercolour and ink on board, 60.9 x 48.2cm. Nature Study was one of a unique series of exhibitions in which contemporary artists are invited to exhibit alongside works from the…
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Juergen Teller - Awailable
2006 - Teller
Juergen Teller: "Cherub, London, 2006", C-type print. Juergen Teller has been credited not only with changing the face of fashion photography in Britain in the 1990s but producing some of the most compelling and authentic photographic images…
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William Eggleston - Portraits 1974
2007 - Eggleston
William Eggleston: Untitled, 1974, pigment print on archival paper. This exhibition was the first showing of large-format colour photographs by William Eggleston, taken in 1974 on a 5 x 7 camera but only recently printed for the first time.…
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