13 March 2008 – 9 June 2008
Nation Focus Gallery. Free.

What do fungi and stonewash jeans have in common?
What has a moss got to do with the Tyrolean icemen?
How can lichens help us tell the age of a rock?

The answers to these questions are found in this remarkable touring exhibition – Hidden in Plain View: The Forgotten Flora – from the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.

The exhibition highlights the incredible diversity of form and colour of fungi, lichens, mosses and liverworts, and some of the extraordinary people who work with them.

Through botanical illustrations and specimens, historical and contemporary writing, as well as artefacts, this exhibition reveals the fascinating world of forgotten flora.

Image: Watercolour on paper, 2002.
State Botanical Collection.

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Supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government Program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of cultural material across Australia.