Commissions for permanent collections:

2019 Agri/Culture. Works interred in vault alongside Svalbard Seed Vault. Longyearben, Norway

2018 Royal Botanic Garden at Kew, London. Interpretation panels throughout Temperate House. Photographs of fruits & seeds. UK 

2018 The Exhibitionist Hotel. Immersive installation ‘Flora: Exploration to Extinction’. London, UK

2012 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. Exhibition about urban biodiversity. Photographs of fruits & seeds. Los Angeles, USA

Selected Exhibitions:

2019 Agri/Culture. Group show. Svalbard Seed Vault. Longyearben, Norway

2018 Evolve/Involve. Group show. The Exhibitionist Hotel, London UK

2017 The Fall. Group show. Fitzrovia Gallery, London UK

2017 Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show. Group show & competition, juried portfolio. London UK 

2017 Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. Group show, International Garden Photographer of the Year, London UK 

2017 Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, Group show. The Netherlands

2017 Gibraltar Botanic Gardens (The Alameda), Group show. Gibraltar

2017 Dispersal: Berkeley. Solo show. All specimens collected on site. University of California Botanical Garden, Berkeley, USA 

2014 Dispersal: Arnold. Solo show. All specimens collected on site. Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, USA

Awards:

2021 International Photography Award, First Place, Nature: Other

2017 International Garden Photographer of the Year, Bronze medal. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

2017 Royal Horticultural Society, Silver Gilt. Photography Portfolio exhibited at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Bibliography:

Journal of The Autobiography Society (cover image), vol. 35, Winter 2020

International Garden Photographer of the Year, ed. Curtis McGlinchey, Garden World Images, 2017 

ArtNew, “Flower Power: On Vegetation and Verdure in Art”, Andy Battaglia, December 12, 2017 

Economic Botany, New York Botanical Garden, vol 71, December 2017

Botanical Research Institute of Texas, vol 10, no 2, December 2016

Harvard Magazine, “The Sorcery of Seed Pods”, January 2014

The Boston Globe, “The Seed Pod Army”, Kevin Hartnett, January 5, 2014

Books & Publications:

‘Botanical Art: From Rennaissance Herbaria to the 19th Century’, White Star (Italy), 2018

‘The Botanic Wall Chart: Illustrations from the Golden Age of Scientific Discovery’, University of Chicago Press, Hachette, 2016 

Hymn, Laboratory Arts Collecrive, “Fear”, Spring 2014

Evolve, Journal of The Ecology Center, “Seed Pods as Shelter”, Issue 09 Spring 2014

Arnoldia: the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard, “Dispersal”, Volume 71, no. 2. Autumn 2013

Lectures & Talks:

Agri/Culture, Longyearben, Norway, June 2019. ‘The Iraqi Seed Project’ presentation / exhibition.

The Exhibitionist Hotel, London. Nature & Art; Panel discussion, 22 January, 2019

Fitzrovia Gallery, London, 22 May, 2018. The Botanical Wall Chart slideshow.

University of California Berkeley School of Environmental Design (invited by Ronald Rael, Associate Professor of Architecture), 23 January, 2017.

University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif., 18 & 25 January, 2017. The Botanical Wall Chart, Dispersal slideshow.

Royal Horticultural Society Wisley, UK. 19 November, 2016. The Botanical Wall Chart slideshow.

Stories & Books Café, Los Angeles, Calif. 7 November, 2016. The Botanical Wall Chart slideshow.

Westchester Garden Club, Westchester, Connecticut, 12 October, 2016. Dispersal slideshow.

Hartford Garden Club, West Granby, Connecticut, 7 October, 2016. Dispersal slideshow.

Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. 28 October, 2013. Dispersal slideshow.

Press:

“In her show ‘Dispersal’, Laurent reminds us that plants do move. Her photographs illustrate with exquisite beauty & botanical panache that these seemingly sessile organisms disperse in fantastic ways. This can only be accomplished [by] the scholar-artist, and Laurent is clearly both.” — Michael Dosmann, Curator of Living Collections, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

“The Robert Mapplethorpe of seed pods.” — Gwen Stauffer, Executive Director, Lotusland

“Laurent’s images testify to the many ingenious ways that life propagates itself.”— Kevin Hartnett, The Boston Globe

“Anna Laurent has done a series of photographs of seedpods that are aesthetically magnificent and also present superb detail.” — Anna Ursyn, Handbook of Research on Maximizing Cognitive Learning through Knowledge Visualization, 2015

Alumna profile in Harvard magazine, “The Sorcery of Seed Pods”, January 2014

Press for my book ‘The Botanical Wall Chart’ is here.