Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
The Art + Science Salon (formerly Reading Group) is a virtual gathering of thinkers, researchers and the incurably curious. Organised by PhD candidates Amelia McConville (School of English and Institute of Neuroscience) and Autumn Brown (School of Education and Science Gallery Dublin) and supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the series explores the evolutionary and revolutionary kinship between two approaches to understanding the universe and our place within it.
In this discussion, Botany + Barriers, our hosts are joined by speaker Mary Dillon, an Irish botanical artist whose work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in Florence, Germany, Vienna, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco, Madrid, Frankfurt and London.
She was a key contributor to the Drawn From Nature: Irish Botanical Art exhibition in the National Gallery of Ireland (currently postponed). She is a fellow member of Society of Botanical Artists, UK and a member of the Watercolour Society of Ireland, and is a founding chairperson of the Irish Society of Botanical Art.
She teaches in Barcelona, Greece, the US, Ireland, and was on the teaching team of the Chelsea School of Botanical Art in London. Mary has a particular fascination with botanical art as a personal process for the artist while at the same time striving for excellence in her art practice.
The Art + Science Salon (formerly Reading Group) is a virtual gathering of thinkers, researchers and the incurably curious. Organised by PhD candidates Amelia McConville (School of English and Institute of Neuroscience) and Autumn Brown (School of Education and Science Gallery Dublin) and supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the series explores the evolutionary and revolutionary kinship between two approaches to understanding the universe and our place within it.
In this discussion, Botany + Barriers, our hosts are joined by speaker Mary Dillon, an Irish botanical artist whose work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in Florence, Germany, Vienna, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco, Madrid, Frankfurt and London.
She was a key contributor to the Drawn From Nature: Irish Botanical Art exhibition in the National Gallery of Ireland (currently postponed). She is a fellow member of Society of Botanical Artists, UK and a member of the Watercolour Society of Ireland, and is a founding chairperson of the Irish Society of Botanical Art.
She teaches in Barcelona, Greece, the US, Ireland, and was on the teaching team of the Chelsea School of Botanical Art in London. Mary has a particular fascination with botanical art as a personal process for the artist while at the same time striving for excellence in her art practice.
