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  2008 The Eden Project Cornwall
Shape Shifters
A major retrospective exhibition of plant photograms that blurs the boundaries between art and science. Easterling collaborated with Dr Alistair Griffiths to research leaf adaptation and create over 100 life size images ranging from the tiny Venus Fly Trap to the vast Coco de Mer.
View Shape Shifters movie on YouTube
     
Detail from Body and Soul poster   2007 RHS Lindley Library London
Body and Soul
Herbarium specimens and photograms
A collaborative exhibition between Easterling and herbarium expert Diana Miller. They created matching images showing how artist and scientist choose to represent plant life in different ways.
     
Green in Black and White - allium   2007 Winchester Gallery
Green in Black and White
A group exhibition exploring how artists choose black and white photography to bring the natural world to life in a different way.
     
Blueprint for Living   2007 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
Blueprint for Living (permanent)
Full figure cyanotype photograms of the Agewell participants. Permanent installation Atrium, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
     
In The Light of a Summer’s Day - lillies   2006 Fox Talbot Museum Lacock
In The Light of a Summer’s Day
A joint exhibition with Susie Needham, the first women ever to exhibit at the Fox Talbot Museum. Both Angela and Susie create sun printed images using the Victorian methods but with contemporary results.
     
Caught in Time - Poke me boy   2005/6 Kew at Wakehurst Place Gallery
Caught in Time
British Virgin Island critically endangered plants
Photograms of critically endangered plants resulting from an expedition to the British Virgin Islands with a scientific team led by Dr Colin Clubbe. This was part of a Darwin Initiative Project. The images were later shown on treasured Islands the Kew exhibit at the Chelsea
Flower Show.
     
    2006 Gallery 286, Earl’s Court Road
Christmas Delights
     
    2006 Riverside Studios London
Blueprint for Living
     
    2005 Hammersmith Town Hall
Agewell People
     
    2005 Martin’s Gallery, Cheltenham
Capturing Shadows
     
Floral Portraits   2005 The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room
Floral Portraits
Joint show with Martin Cole and Paul Hart
     
    2005 Royal London Hospital
Photosynthesis
     
    2004 Royal Albert Museum, Exeter
Photosynthesis
     
    2004 The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room
Summer show
     
Seeing Things - detail from flyer   2003 Victoria and Albert Museum
Seeing Things
A group exhibition in six sections ranging from early photographic works to key contemporary images.
     
Grass Photogram   2003 Eden Project, Cornwall
Grass Photogram
A photogram on 150ft of grass.
     
    2003 Museum of Garden History
Botanical Ghosts
     
    2002 Eden Project, Cornwall
Biome Species
     
    1998 Art of Flower Gallery, London
Summer
     
    Commissions
     
Picture showing collecting cactus   2004 Anegada British Virgin Islands expedition for The Royal Botanic Garden Kew
     
2003 Seychelles expedition for The Eden Project   2003 Seychelles expedition for The Eden Project
     
    2005 Blueprint for Living. Cyanotype body prints and workshops. Community project for Hammersmith and Fulham Agewell Activities.
     
    2000/2004 Leaf Adaptation Series for The Eden Project
     
    2000 Series of cards and poster for Habitat
     
    1999/2000 Series of posters and cards for The Art Group
     
   

1998/99 Albert Roux Restaurant chain. 80 Vegetable studies

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