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18 WHAT'S ON Theatre Art Music Shows Festivals Tyrannosaurs at the National Printmakers - The Museum of Scotland call it. Dr Nick Fraser, Keeper of Natural Botanist's Daughter Science at National Museums Scotland said: “For any of us who are fascinated by dinosaurs, T. rex is surely the most recognisable, whether in popular culture or on Canadian artist Alexandra Haeseker goes wild at Edinburgh Printmakers with larger than life exhibition of plants and insects schemes hinting at something not quite right. Alexandra Haeseker told The Edinburgh Reporter : “Well, the the front of your first dinosaur Giant colourful prints reframe show has to do with the greater book or poster as a kid. I think our relationship with nature awareness in a sense that people there is a real sense of wonder and highlight the fragility of the have now of climate change. So that such a seemingly fantastic natural world in new exhibition The I'm looking at two aspects, plant animal actually walked the earth. Botanist’s Daughter life and insect life. And at the Tyrannosaurs shows visitors Marking the beginning of same time when I was building not only the mighty scale of T. the 2020 season at Edinburgh these works it was Fall and so I rex, but also their fascinating Printmakers, The Botanist’s was aware of the lingering last few family tree, including early Asian Daughter is Alexandra’s first moths and the fading flies. And so feathered tyrannosaurs which solo exhibition in the UK. Her I'm showing both aspects in this are some of the most exciting vibrant hyper-real representations exhibition.” recent discoveries in dinosaur of plants and insects draw Alexandra Haeseker: The palaeontology.” inspiration from the rich and Botanist’s Daughter

The most comprehensive excavation crew from the Royal Museum Lates Jurassic Party 13 bountiful resources of hand-pulled 18 January to 22 March 2020 exhibition ever mounted on tyrannosaurs makes its only European appearance in Saskatchewan Museum after they had made a toast with malt whisky whilst deliberating over what to March. nms.ac.uk/tyrannosaurs engravings found in Museum and Library collections, illustrating botanical and entomological Gallery 1, Edinburgh Printmakers Castle Mills, 1 Dundee St, EH3 Edinburgh. Tyrannosaurs explores themes. 9FP www.edinburghprintmakers. the most feared and revered of The Botanist’s Daughter subverts co.uk all dinosaurs, bringing the latest relationships of scale between palaeontological discoveries to life the viewer and the plants and and challenging preconceptions insects represented in the about these ferocious predators. exhibition. Haeseker’s intention is

The exhibition features rare to encourage us to develop a new fossil specimens, cast skeletons paradigm in relating to the natural including one of ‘Scotty’, one of world, by considering more fully the largest and most complete what is often invisible to our eyes, T. rex skeletons in the world, and and below our feet. These large incredible models of feathered scale pieces will take over Gallery dinosaurs. Scotty was discovered 1 at Edinburgh Printmakers with in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1991. PHOTOS by Neil Hanna the vibrant almost lurid colour The specimen was named by the

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