Artwork
"Dulcis Legatum" by Artist Marie Bogoyevitch
The “Dulcis Legatum” series (Sweet Legacy) is inspired by the scientific images created Georgina Sweet (1875-1946) in her detailed descriptions of the Australian marsupial mole and of the endoparasites of Australian livestock and fauna. Sweet was an active zoologist and internationally-recognised parasitologist, significantly advancing the involvement in women in Australian science. This series has been created by the photointaglio printmaking process, in which Sweet’s black and white images have been transferred to photosensitive plates. Each plate is then printed in new colours – sepia to reinforce the historical reference of Sweet’s images, her favourite blue-green hues of turquoise and teal, and a multi-colour spectrum echoing the false colour used in modern representations of microscopy images. Marie is a Melbourne-based artist. She has followed her passions for science and art in her professional career as a biomedical scientist and, more recently, in botanical art and natural history illustration. Marie enjoys the challenge of presenting the fine detail and beauty of plants in a variety of media, extending her skills in a range of different techniques under the guidance of a number of renowned Australian and international botanical artists. See more of Marie’s work on her Instagram page @marie.bogoyevitch.art and at the Royal Botanic Gardens exhibition: https://tabi.rbgfriendsmelbourne.org/marie-bogoyevitch