New Scientist recommends Mat Collishaw's Petrichor show in London

You have until 7 April to catch Mat Collishaw’s amazing Petrichor exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London. His art is unlike anything I have ever seen, drawing on botany and evolutionary biology while mashing up old and modern techniques.

For example, to make his Alluvion series, Collishaw used artificial intelligence to generate images of flowers that resemble insects – a phenomenon known as Pouyannian mimicry, where flowers evolved to look like insects to attract other insects and get pollinated. He painted the results in the style of Dutch Golden Age artists.

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