Person

Pieroni, Margaret Edith (1936 - )

OAM

Born
1936
New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Botanical artist and Photographer

Summary

Margaret Pieroni is one of Australia's foremost botanical artists. After two decades of working as an artist in advertising, and recovering from leukaemia, Pieroni moved to Western Australia in 1974 and became immersed in the study of the local flora. She is recognised for her significant contribution to the study of Dryandra (a series within the genus Banksia) endemic to Western Australia. For many years she has collected specimens, painted and photographed the plants, and undertaken horticultural research. Since 1987, she has been Leader of the Dryandra Study Group of the Australian Native Plants Society. In 1991, with six other eminent Western Australian botanical artists, she founded the Botanical Artists Group of Western Australia. Other groups of which she is a member include the Society for Growing Australian Plants, the Wildflower Society of Western Australia, and the Watercolour Society of Western Australia.

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Chronology

1987 - 2008
Career position - Leader, Dryandra Study Group, Association of Societies fior Growing Australian Plants
1991 -
Career position - Founding Member, Botanical Artists Group Western Australia
2008 -
Career position - Leader, Dryandra Study Group, Australian Native Plants Society
2024
Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to botanical art

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Published resources

Books

  • Cavanagh, Tony and Pieroni, Margaret, The dryandras (Melbourne: Perth: Australian Plants Society (SGAP Victoria): Wildflower Society of Western Australia, 2006), 237 pp. Details
  • George, Elizabeth A.: paintings and illustrations by Margaret Pieroni, Verticordia: the turner of hearts (Nedlands, W.A>: University of Western Australia Press, 2002), 422 pp. Details
  • Gooding, J., Brush with Gondwana: Botanical Artist's Group of Western Australia (North Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Press, 2008), 142 pp. Details

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See also

Helen Cohn

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