The Wych Elm Project
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Tues 6 Oct 2009 — Sun 21 Mar 2010
The Wych Elm Project features work by some of Scotland's leading makers using material from a giant and much loved wych elm that was felled in the Botanic Garden in 2003.
Karla Black: Sculptures, with paintings by Bet Low (1924-2007)
Inverleith House, Edinburgh Sat 14 Nov 2009 — Sun 14 Feb 2010
New sculptures made for Inverleith House by Karla Black (b. 1972) in her first major solo exhibition in Scotland. Also showing; a room of paintings by Bet Low (1924-2007), selected by Karla Black.
Alexander Hamilton: Sensorium - Pictures from Nature's Laboratory
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Wed 23 Dec 2009 — Wed 17 Feb 2010
Alexander Hamilton’s work provides new responses to plants and the effects of climate change using picture-forming methods. Pictures were created at Brantwood during a Leverhulme Fellowship and inspired by cherry trees from the RGBE phenology monitoring programme.
Colour Fields
Dawyck Botanic Garden Mon 1 Feb — Sun 25 Apr 2010
John Nelson produces paintings which he hopes encapsulate his natural joie de vivre and love of colour.
Spring Bouquet
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Tues 2 Feb — Wed 31 Mar 2010
Snowdrops have featured prominently in previous February exhibitions.
Phylogeny by Hamer Dodds
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sat 20 Feb — Tues 30 Mar 2010
Artist Hamer Dodds shows work produced in response to aspects of the science undertaken at the RBGE. The work includes drawings and materials stemming from fieldwork in Belize with plant taxonomists and his recent work on phylogeny.
Pteridomania - The Renaissance
Benmore Botanic Garden Mon 1 Mar — Sun 11 Apr 2010
Marking the opening of the restored Victorian Fernery in Benmore Botanic Garden, this exhibition sets a remarkable building in the context of the fascinating world of ferns from Victorian pteridomania to the current conservation work of the Garden.
Victoria Morton
Inverleith House, Edinburgh Sun 14 Mar — Sun 2 May 2010
An exhibition of new paintings by Victoria Morton (born 1971, Glasgow), made for Inverleith House. Having attracted critical acclaim for exhibitions presented in Britain, Europe and the United States, this is Morton’s first major solo exhibition in a Scottish museum for seven years.
Green to Red
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Thurs 1 Apr — Thurs 27 May 2010
An exploration of Scotland's biodiversity through a variety of media.
Questioning Evolution? Evolving Answers?
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sat 3 — Wed 21 Apr 2010
Find out how evolution makes the most of simple systems to produce the huge diversity of plants in nature, and how scientists are using their understanding of these systems to help improve our food. Presented by the BBSRC.