Nine wild plants

Published in a signed and numbered edition.
Book was launched at an exhibition entitled "Creative 8" at Clerkenwell Green Association, 25 Nov. 2006.
Of green leaf, bird, and flower: artists' books and the natural world, p. 18.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 8, signed by the artist. In original printed wrappers. Other items produced for the exhibition Nine wild plants, and now in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art, include: the finished collage of Meadow buttercup (Ranunculus acris); the finished collage of Field poppy (Papaver rhoeas); drawing no. 1 (collage) and sketch no. 1 of Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale); and sketch no. 4 of Common nettle (Urtica dioica).
Tracey Bush "began Nine Wild Plants after reading ecological thinkers, including Paul Hawken, who notes that the average Western adult can recognise over 1000 brand names or logos, but fewer than ten local, indigenous plants. Posing the question 'Which nine wild plants could you confidently identify?' Bush began emailing a range of people and collecting their responses. Texts from these email exchanges are reproduced in a small artist's book and form the basis of a series of unique, transparent bookworks that include original line drawings of the plants described."--Emma Hill for Printmaking Today, via artist's website.