What better way to celebrate Mother’s Day than joining us for a special high tea inspired by Floribunda. This dining experience will be hosted by the exhibition curator David Sequeira, who will be joined by his mother and family.

Enjoy a curated high tea menu served on Robert Gordon platewear, and hear from David Sequeira as he uncovers the stories nestled within the art of Floribunda. Following the talk, spend time exploring the exhibition at your own pace and take in a floral perspective on one of Australia's most important collections. 

Celebrate Mother's Day by immersing yourself in this unique exhibition, a collaboration between the National Gallery of Victoria and Bunjil Place. Floribunda, meaning 'many-flowering,' showcases an abundance of floral imagery, design, and motifs from the NGV Collection. 

The exhibition Floribunda, a major partnership between the National Gallery of Victoria and Bunjil Place, is an intoxicating larger-than-life mashup of floral imagery, design and motif drawn from the NGV Collection. 

Through its ‘Wunderkammer’ style of display, Floribunda celebrates and reimagines the nature and significance of one of Australia’s most important collections. Including Decorative Arts, Fashion and Textiles, Painting, First Nations Australia and Pacific Art, the selection of works spans multiple histories, cultures and art forms. Featuring poignant still life paintings, couture embellished with swirls of floral pattern, and objects lavishly adorned with buds and blooms, Floribunda connects human experience with the beauty and poetic symbolism of flowers.

About David Sequeira

Artist, curator and academic David Sequeira focuses on the use of colour and geometry in the creation of contemplative experiences. Using colour and geometry as ‘languages’, David works across media to explore issues around high and low art, personal and shared histories, banality and profundity, the reverberations of colonisation and the persisting impact of incomplete histories. Curatorship – articulating the intersections between objects, time, place and space – is an important aspect of his art practice. David has exhibited his work extensively throughout Australia and his work is held in important public collections including the National Gallery of Australia. Prior to his role as Director, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, David held senior positions in a range of cultural institutions including the National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery, Australian Parliament House and the National Film and Sound Archive.