Viewing Flowers: Flora in Contemporary Art and Culture at Saatchi Gallery

The Saatchi Gallery has stepped up its programming of late, and the latest in a run of engaging group shows is this mega exploration of flowers in art through the ages, perfectly timed to run into late spring.

Flowers is a massive undertaking, with a participating artist list that reads like a who’s who of art, occupying nine gallery spaces over two floors. From large-scale installations to photography, archival objects to fashion, there are an incredible array of more than 500 artworks on show here, including an awe-inspiring installation of 10,000 dried flowers taking over an entire room.

One thing this does is show the perennial, universal artistic impulse to immortalize nature, but also just how many different ways flora can be perceived and depicted, as symbols, subjects and sources of inspiration. And of course, the undercurrent looks to the future, and to what is under threat in the current climate emergency.