Flowers: Passion. Pain. Nation. – Exhibition

Flowers hold a special place in the history of Western art, having been used since ancient times to symbolically represent all the most important aspects of life, such as love, marriage, eroticism, religion, piety, charity and death. Consequently, they have developed their own unique and complex artistic language.

In Flowers: Passion. Pain. Nation., explore the history of flowers in art and discover their different and varied meanings through over 80 sublime paintings, porcelains, sculptures and furniture on display across three galleries. View extraordinary art from the late Renaissance, Napoleonic France and Victorian-era Britain alongside the Modernist works of Australian female artists, including Grace Cossington Smith, Freda Robertshaw and Margaret Preston, and leading contemporary art by Michael Zavros, Ah Xian, Christian Thompson and Robyn Stacey.