Mark Schaller : Botanicus fantasticus (signed copy)

Melbourne : Fox Galleries, 2020. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with wraparound band, pp. 64, illustrated. Foreword by Helen Hughes, essay by Rebecca Agnew. Signed by the artist on the title page.

The first volume in the Modern Seasons series of publications. Modern Seasons is a publication series presenting a portrait of the four seasons. The four-part publication is a documentation of five Australian Visual Artists response to the navigation of abstracted time and causation in 2020.

Mark Schaller presents Botanicus Fantasticus, Autumn with his en plein air painting performances at the Royal Botanical Gardens that playfully investigates urban retreats as spaces of ‘wild’ nature interactions and interventions.