Florascopic: Pressed Impressions

Saturday 18 April to Sunday 10 May

“This was an enigma so complex and yet so simple that one recognized in it a direct revelation of Nature.”
- Claire Winger Harris, The Miracle of the Lily, 1928

Pressed Impressions is the first solo exhibition by Sherin Siew, exploring the aesthetic and scientific intricacies of plants. Using pressed botanical specimens as both medium and subject, Sherin’s work sits at the intersection of art, design, and botany. Flowers are gathered at fleeting moments of peak form, then preserved and re-encountered through careful arrangement that foregrounds structure, repetition, and variation.

Inspired by flora as intelligent, self-organising, self-changing life forms comprehensively shaped by time and place, the artworks explore pattern as meaning, and observation as an ethical act. Viewers are invited to draw upon our biophilia—to slow down and read the plant itself, contemplating the small yet profound details of a single petal.

About the artist

Sherin Siew is a Malaysian-born artist and digital designer based in Oxford. She works with locally-gathered flora, often grown from seed and preserved using traditional flower-pressing techniques. She is currently studying Plant Behaviour at the University of Oxford.