An Australian has taken out the top honours in the Margaret Flockton Award – recognised as the world’s leading Award in scientific botanical illustration.
Lucy Smith, an Australian botanical illustrator currently living in the UK and working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew has been awarded first place (and $5000 prize money) for her detailed illustration of Nepenthes petiolata.
Second place (and $2000) went to Edmundo Saavedra Vidal (from Mexico) who also was Highly Commended for his work Alvaradoa amorphoides.
Other Highly Commended Awards went to Klei Sousa (Brazil), Sandra Sanger (Victoria), Pauline Dewar (Victoria) and Susana Souza (Brazil).
The winning entries in the annual Margaret Flockton Award for Excellence in Scientific Botanical Illustration, recognised as the leading award of its kind worldwide, are currently being exhibited, alongside works by some of the world’s leading botanical illustrators, at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney until Sunday 15 June.
Botanical Illustrators from around the world can enter the Margaret Flockton Award competition by submitting one to two original scientific botanical illustrations in black and white. This year’s entries, which numbered thirty-three, came from Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Spain Brazil, Mexico, the UK plus France, Belgium and Canada. A selection of these entries, together with the winners, are now on exhibition at the Royal Botanic Garden, to allow people the rare opportunity to appreciate this extraordinary art form.
Margaret Flockton Award Exhibition
Joseph Maiden Theatre, Royal Botanic Garden
24 May to 15 June, 2014
Sydney
Lucy Smith, Nepenthes petiolata, 2013
