Exhibition Reflects on Swedish Botanist’s Legacy
Commemorations (2019x)Dr Daniel Solander was a Swedish natural scientist who sailed on the Endeavour alongside Sir Joseph Banks and James Cook on their expedition to Tahiti and returned via Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia in 1768–71. Paradise Lost brings together the work of 10 contemporary New Zealand based artists responding to the life of the Swedish botanist and his contribution to James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific.