PLANT LIFE

We’re delighted to be starting the New Year with a group exhibition, Plant Life, curated by Rhett D’Costa, Magali Gentris, and Jason Waterhouse, and for which we have made new work. We will also be exhibiting an edition of Bilateral Symmetry.

Plant Life
Stockroom Kyneton, 98 Piper Street, Kyneton
Saturday 24th of January – Sunday 1st of March, 2026

Sofi Basseghi, Steven Bellosgardo, Kris Coad, Amber Cronin, Rhett D’Costa, Beverly Downs, William Eicholtz, Peter Ellis, Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Clare McCracken & Heather Hesterman, Anthea Kemp, Sara Lindsay, Sally Mannall, Julie Millowick, Betty Mula, Laetitia Olivier-Gargano, Petra Rodgers, Sarah Rudledge, Jason Waterhouse, Lisa Waup, Rosie Weiss

The exhibition Plant Life, curated by Rhett D’Costa, Magali Gentric, and Jason Waterhouse, brings together twenty-three artists who draw on the vegetal world to explore a range of ideas, including human/plant relationships, storytelling, beauty, fragility, ecologies and the environment. Utilising the three exhibition spaces at Stockroom Kyneton, this dynamic and ambitious show presents a diverse range of materials and forms, including drawings, paintings, artist books, ceramics, photography, sculpture, video, and performance.

Stockroom Kyneton

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19th of January, 2026

“The Book of Flower Studies belongs to what is often dubbed "the last flowering" of northern European manuscript illumination in the medieval tradition. Illuminators working at Tours brought the garden inside to enrich the pages of princely manuscripts. The pages of this book unquestionably provided the models for renderings in several celebrated commissions linked to Claude, Queen of France and to Antoine de la Barre, a prominent ecclesiastic who became Archbishop of Tours.

These flowers were painted in witness to their inherent beauty, not gathered merely for their symbolism, nor for their perceived medicinal value.”
— THE MET