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Bush, Tracey, Meadow buttercup , 2006
- Title(s):
- Meadow buttercup : Ranunculus acris / T. Bush.
- Additional Title(s):
- Nine wild plants
- Published/Created:
- 2006.
- Physical Description:
- 1 collage ; 39 x 26 cm, on sheet 42 x 29 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio B 2016 4eYale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art FundView by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Copyright Status:
- © 2020 Tracey Bush
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11684992
- Classification:
- Visual Materials
- Notes:
- "Bush's work has often dealt with the impact that man makes on the environment and she 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. Central to the exhibition was a series of nine, large-scale, collages drawings including the stinging nettle, buttercup and poppy. These works interweave a theme of lost knowledge with the rigour of scientific specimens. Bush referred to the Herbarium Handbook as well as to her own observed drawings to make templates for hand-drawn plant silhouettes; she then collaged fragments of found materials illustrating sweet packet, cigarette and fizzy drink logos etc. ..."--Emma Hill, in Printmaking Today.
Other items produced for Nine wild plants, and now in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art, include: 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). The collection also includes a copy of the Nine wild plants artist's book.
Selected exhibitions: "Nine Wild Plants" (Pennybank Gallery, London, 2006)
One of nine collages made by Tracey Bush for her Nine Wild Plants, a solo exhibition in 2006. The collage is composed of fragments of commercial paper packaging, completed by lines drawn in pen and black ink. Together, the drawn lines and collaged packaging form an accurate silhouette of a Meadow buttercup (Ranunculius acris). On 100% rag herbarium paper. The common name and scientific name of the species are identified by a label in the lower right-hand corner, written in pen and black ink. Signed and dated by the artist in graphite. - Subject Terms:
- Botanical illustration -- Great Britain.Branding (Marketing)Buttercups.Hawken, Paul. Declaration of sustainability.Logos (Symbols)Plants -- Great Britain.Plants -- Identification.Ranunculus acris.Wild flowers -- Great Britain.Wild flowers -- Identification.Women in natural history.
- Form/Genre:
- Cut-paper works.
Collages (visual works)
Ink drawings.
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"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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