Episode 24: Anna Laurent, Seeds and The Fertile Crescent
Anna Laurent is an award-winning artist and author. Her projects include the internationally exhibited "Dispersal" project; a book about Victorian botanic wall charts (2016, University of Chicago Press); "The Iraqi Seed Project," a documentary about biodiversity in the Fertile Crescent; and commissioned work in the Temperate House at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Anna shares her journey with us and talks about how she quit her job determined to find someone who would pay for her to learn about plants.
How did she do?
Let’s find out.
Related Links
The Sorcery of Seedpods: Little Packages of DNA that Explode with Beauty
Temperate House at Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
Botanical Art from the Golden Age of Scientific Discovery (Chicago University Press)
The Art of Botanical Painting: Iconic Botanical Wall Charts from the Golden Age of Scientific Discovery (Ilex Press, September 23, 2025) - Hardcover & eBook
Art, Botany & Society: Plants in the Limelight (ArtPlantae Interview, 2012)
In Memoriam - Anna Laurent (1979 - 2024)
https://www.instagram.com/anna__laurent/
Episode notes updated August 17, 2025