Congratulations to our RST member Lynne Uptin OAM who was awarded the 2024 Best Botanical Art Exhibit Award and a Gold Medal award for 2024 for her suite of works.
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in London is staging its annual Botanical Art and Photography Show from 14 June to 7 July 2024. The exhibition hosts exquisite botanical art and photography featuring a rich variety of subjects from medicinal desert flowers to ornamental bananas, and from images of forest slime moulds to urban street plants.
It showcases the work of 23 leading global botanical artists and 18 photographers, representing countries including the UK, Italy, Portugal, Romania, USA, South Africa, Taiwan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Japan and Australia. The exhibition is held at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Lynne’s works occupy the end wall of Gallery One and are the first works seen as you enter the exhibition.
All entries are reviewed by an expert judging panel during the pre-selection process, prior to the show opening in June, and are assessed on aesthetic appeal, scientific accuracy and technical skill. The judges noted that this exhibition contains the best quality of artworks ever received.
The Show contributes to a long legacy of botanical art collecting and display by the RHS, and complements the work of the RHS Lindley Collections, which holds more than 30,000 botanical paintings and heritage photographs. This prestigious exhibition is open only by invitation, sent to a select few of the best botanical artists in the world.
Lynne was Director of Arts Tasmania, the State’s arts funding body, for 20 years and was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in 2010 for services to arts administration, particularly in assisting Aboriginal culture.
Hear Lynne speaking about the award with ABC’s Ryk Goddard here.
Note 1: The image for this post is a detail from the artwork, The Genus Richea: A Relic of Gondwana, for which Lynne received the Best Botanical Art Exhibit Award.
