Author: Hendrix, Jan
Title: Jan Hendrix: Paradise Lost
Description: Kew, Richmond, Surrey, Kew Publishing, Royal Botanical Gardens, 2020. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Illustrated boards. 157 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. Jan Hendrix is a Dutch-born, Mexico-based contemporary artist. His work is all about observation and analysis; nature and its different ways of representing and telling extended stories, often in a non-linear narrative. Based on an exhibition at Kew Gardens, this book is a visual report of Hendrix's multiple visits to the Kamay Botany Bay Area of New South Wales, Australia, made over a 20-year period. Beautiful and thought-provoking works convey his response to the fragile, changing landscape, under constant threat of fire and destruction. His work also draws on first collections of plants at Kamay Botany Bay documented by botanists Joseph Banks, Daniel Solander and Sydney Parkinson as part of the HMS Endeavour expedition in 1770. Supporting texts by Art Historian Dawn Ades, CEO of the Bundanon Trust Deborah Ely, and filmmaker Michael Leggett contextualise the work of the artist. With a foreword by Kew Director Richard Deverell. VG. Ex-art workshop library, only markings being a sticker on the spine and rear paste down. Otherwise would be close to new.

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