MAPh | Terra botanica

Terra botanica2015

from the series Terra botanica

becquerel daguerrotypes

80.0 x 90.0 cm (approximately)

courtesy of the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery (Melbourne)

Artist statement: Terra botanica explores the English botanist, Sir Joseph Banks’s influence in the British colonisation of Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand). Banks was the botanist on James Cook’s first exploration to Australia and Aotearoa where they researched and documented suitable places that the British could establish colonies. Joseph Banks was later requested by the King of England to select an appropriate habitat to send the ‘First Fleet’ of British colonists. The location Banks recommended was Botany Bay in New South Wales as from there it would be possible to colonise Norfolk Island and Aotearoa. The actions by Sir Joseph Banks led to the death of many Aboriginal and Māori people at the hands of the British military and colonists.

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1. Ipomoea batatas I, Kūmar
2. Eucalyptus gracilis
3. Grevillea banksia
4. Metrosideros excelsa, pōhutukawa
5. Agathis australis
6. Eucalyptus leucoxylon II
7. Cyathea dealbata, Ponga
8. Eucalyptus leucoxylon
9. Callistemon salignus
10. Pennisetum alopecuroides

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