HARD RAIN - Remaking a World Gone Wrong : The Exhibition
Dawyck Botanic Garden Sat 7 Mar — Sun 27 Sept 2009
Concluding its tour of the four RBGE Gardens, this display interweaves the Bob Dylan lyric with soul-searching images from around the globe that reflect mankind's destructive influence on our planet.
Raffles' Ark Redrawn: Natural History Drawings from the Collection of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
Inverleith House, Edinburgh Sat 9 May — Sun 5 July 2009
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781 - 1826) is best known as the founder of Singapore, but he also formed a superb collection of Southeast Asian drawings and manuscripts. Acquired by the British Library in 2007, Inverleith House presents a selection of these botanical and zoological drawings.
Cerith Wyn Evans
Inverleith House, Edinburgh Sat 9 May — Sun 5 July 2009
Cerith Wyn Evans (b.1958, Wales) is recognised internationally for the conceptual clarity and beauty of his work which incorporates a wide range of media. Selected by the artist for Inverleith House, this will be his first solo museum exhibition in Scotland. Presented with White Cube, London.
Botanical Seasons
Dawyck Botanic Garden Sat 20 June — Mon 30 Nov 2009
Maggie and Cherrie treat you to a kaleidoscope of colours and imagery exhibiting the diversity of Textile Embroidery and Lace.
A hope unbroken: John Hope's place in the history of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Tues 30 June — Fri 28 Aug 2009
As RBGE opens its stylish new visitor centre focused on plant biodiversity, an opportunity is taken to display artefacts and books relating to John Hope (1725-1786), the RBGE Regius Keeper in whose honour the building is named. Hope was a pioneering Scottish botanist and a leading Scottish Englightenment figure, who established and developed RBGE on a new site at Leith Walk.
Ikebana, The Japanese Art of Floral Arrangement
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Fri 10 — Sun 12 July 2009
Senior teachers from Ikenobo, the most celebrated of the Ikebana schools and the origin of Ikebana itself, will compose a spectacular exhibition and teach the skills and techniques of Ikebana in a series of demonstrations and workshops.
John McCracken
Inverleith House, Edinburgh Thurs 6 Aug — Sun 11 Oct 2009
Sculpture and drawings by one of the great living American artists whose brilliant use of colour and form has influenced generations in a career spanning 45 years; his first solo museum exhibition in the UK.
Folding Words - exhibition by Edinburgh International Festival
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Fri 14 Aug — Sun 6 Sept 2009
A beautiful display of origami cranes has been created from letters primary school children have written about something they have always wished to express. Part of the Edinburgh International Festival's Bank of Scotland Connecting to Culture programme.
Botanical Art Class
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Tues 1 Sept — Fri 2 Oct 2009
This exhibition features outstanding creative work by the Diploma in Botanical Illustration at the end of their first year.
The Wych Elm Project
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Tues 15 Sept 2009 — Thurs 1 Apr 2010
The Wych Elm Project features work by some of Scotland's leading craftspeople and makers using material from a giant and much loved wych elm that was felled in the Botanic Garden in 2004.