DANIELLE LOVATT - PLANT HUNTERS
14 November - 20 December 2026
Opening 14 November 4-6pm
Following a completely sold-out exhibition last year at Weswal, this highly anticipated new collection from Danielle Lovatt, blends rigorous historical research with rich visual symbolism.
“A smooshed up, quasi historical, illustrated narrative of the human’s need to study, collect and cultivate plants. Part factual, part dreamt up with a lot of creative licence, I’ve set out to create some little scenes of just a tiny bit of a very long Eurocentric (often arrogantly written) account of the hunting and domestication of botanica for scientific, economic and aesthetic purposes.
Imagined ceramic vessels made for plant heroines on their journey aboard merchant ships to study and explore plants of the New World sit alongside wonky medieval pitchers featuring walled and physic gardens. Victorian and Edwardian greenhouse inspired vases and ceramic hangings are joined by a series of paintings featuring once rare but now ubiquitous varieties.
This is a humble homage to the plant hunters and collectors and the everyday joy that their legacy brings.” Danielle Lovatt
Danielle Lovatt
Acrylic on cotton canvas
37.5 × 47.5 cm
Natural Oak floating frame
Danielle Lovatt
Ceramic
Slab built vase, midefire clay, white clip, underglaze & clear gloss glaze
H 18.5 x W21 (including handles) Base 13.5 cm
Danielle Lovatt
Slab built vase, midfire clay, underglaze, clear gloss glaze
H 16 x W 23 x base 4cm
Danielle Lovatt
Slab built vase, midfire clay, white slip,
underglaze and clear gloss glaze
H 15.5 × W 14 (with handle) x base 9 cm
Danielle Lovatt
Slab built vase, midfire clay, white slip,
underglaze, clear gloss glaze
H 14.5 x W 10 x base 6.5 cm
Danielle Lovatt
Wall hanging
midfire clay, underglaze, clear gloss glaze
H 17.5 x W 11.5 cm
Danielle Lovatt
Wall hanging
midfire clay, underglaze, clear gloss glaze
H 17.5 x W 11.5 cm
Danielle Lovatt
Wall hanging
Earthenware clay, underglaze, clear gloss glaze
H 19.5 x W 16 cm
Wire plate hanger included
Danielle Lovatt
Wall hanging
Earthenware clay, underglaze, clear gloss glaze
H 17.5 x W 15 cm
Wire plate hanger included
Danielle Lovatt
Slab built decorate plate
Earthenware clay, underglaze, clear gloss glaze
23.5 × 23.5 cm
Wire plate hanger included
Danielle Lovatt
Slab built pitcher vase
Midfire clay, white slip, cobalt, clear gloss glaze
H 15 x W 11 Base 5.5cm
Danielle Lovatt
Slab built pitcher vase
Midfire clay, white slip, cobalt, clear gloss glaze
H 14 x W 10 x base 10 cm
Danielle Lovatt
Decorative wall hanging
Earthenware, underglaze, clear gloss glaze
H 18 x
Danielle Lovatt
Slab built vase, Midfire clay, underglazes, gloss glaze
H 11 x W 13.5 x base 6 cm
Danielle Lovatt
Slab built vase
Midfire clay, white slip, underglaze, clear gloss glaze
H 11.5 x W 10 × 7 cm
Danielle Lovatt
Slab built vase, midfire clay, underglazes, gloss glaze
H 11.5 x W 13.5 base 6 cm
Danielle Lovatt
Earthenware slab formed decorative plate
Underglazes, clear gloss
W 28.5 CM X H 18 cm
Wire plate hanger included
Danielle Lovatt
Earthenware wall hanging
Underzlases, clear gloss glaze
H 18 x W 13.5 cm
Danielle Lovatt
Earthenware wall hanging
Underglazes, clear gloss glaze
H 20 x W 15 cm
Danielle Lovatt
Slab formed plate
Earthenware, underglaze, clear gloss glaze
28.5 cm dia
Wire plate hanger included
Danielle Lovatt
Slab formed scalloped decorative plate
Midfire clay, underglaze, clear gloss glaze
H 19 x W 25 cm
Wire plate hanger included
Danielle Lovatt
Decorative plate
Earthenware clay, underglaze, clear gloss glaze
H 23 x W1 8 cm
Wire plate hanger included
Danielle Lovatt
Slab formed vase
Earthenware clay fired to midfire,
white slip, underglase, clear gloss glaze
H 13.5 x W 13 x base 7 cm
Danielle Lovatt
Slab built vase
Midfire clay, underglaze and clear gloss glaze
H 17 x W 11.5 cm base 9 cm
Danielle Lovatt
Slab formed decorative plate
Earthenware clay, cobalt and clear gloss glaze
21 cm
Wire plate hanger included
Danielle Lovatt
Wall hanging
Earthenware clay, underglaze, clear gloss glaze
15 × 14.5 cm
Adjustable leather tie hand included
Danielle Lovatt
Wall hanging
Earthenware clay, underglaze, clear gloss glaze
15 × 14.5 cm
Adjustable leather tie hang included
Danielle Lovatt
Wall hanging
Earthenware clay, underglaze, clear gloss glaze
14.5 × 14.5 cm
Adjustable leather tie hang included
Danielle Lovatt
Decorative wall hanging
Earthenware clay, underglaze, coloured and clear gloss glaze
22.5 × 13 cm
Wire plate hanger included
Danielle Lovatt
Acrylic on cotton canvas
37.5 × 47.5 cm
Natural Oak floating frame