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33: 90:, is a South African botanical artist. She has illustrated more than 200 plates for Flowering Plants of Africa, contributed to various other South African National Botanical Institute publications and eight plates for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. She has illustrated two books by Charles Craib, 146:. In 1983 she became the resident botanical artist with the South African National Botanical Institute in Pretoria, retiring in 2018. She has retained her ties with Botswana through the design of 13 sets of postage stamps for that country since 1982. 110:
Condy was born in Kenya, the youngest of three daughters of Thomas Roy Condy and Phyllis Mary Poulton, and spent her childhood in Uganda where her love for Africa and its plants developed. She received her training at
170:. Her work has been shown internationally in more than 60 exhibitions. She has also exhibited at the 7th International Exhibit of Botanical Art and Illustration, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation in 184:
Gillian Condy is one of the founding members of the Botanical Artists Association of Southern Africa (BAASA). She runs regular art courses for SANBI and BAASA. Her artwork is found on the
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Medal by the Botanical Society of South Africa. In 2006 she designed a set of six stamps for South Africa showing Clivia species.
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of London. In 1992 she received the Beeld Stamp Design of the Year award for
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and in 1990 was presented with the Jill Smythies Award from the
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South African Botanical Art : Peeling Back the Petals
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in London as a natural history illustrator and obtained a
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South African Botanical Art: Peeling back the Petals
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Nairobi
Middlesex Polytechnic
Master of Arts
Royal College of Art
Phuthadikobo Museum
Mochudi
Botswana
International Voluntary Service
Lobatse
Royal Horticultural Society
Linnean Society
Pittsburgh
Cythna Letty
Blue Train
ISBN
1-919766-14-6
ISBN
1-874950-54-7
ISBN
1-919766-41-3
The Cavern
Categories
1952 births
Living people
South African botanical illustrators
South African painters
Alumni of Middlesex University
20th-century South African women artists
21st-century South African women artists

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