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Botanical artist worked continuously and exclusively on The Banksias project, managed by Monash University, for the past 25 years, for the first time, her 76 exquisitely detailed life-size watercolours documenting all the known species of banksias are displayed together, along with some preliminary drawings and a Banksia serrata tapestry from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop. The original, on which this work is based, was painted for the Australian Academy of Science in 1969, presented to the Royal Society of London to mark the beginning of the bicentenary celebration of Captain Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific. The results of Celia Rosser’s dedication were published successively in three volumes in 1981, 1988 and 2000. The first Australian to be awarded a Linnaeus Society medal for her contribution to botanical art.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Latrobe Gallery exhibition archive; http://www.nla.gov.au/ntwkpubs/gw/51/p24a01.html (06/08/03); National Library of Australia catalogue;

Exhibition Catalogue:
The banksias / Celia E Rosser and Alexander S George. London: Academic Press, 1981-2000
ISBN 0215980019 (v 1); ISBN 0867468580 (v 2); ISBN 0732621267 (v 3);