SARASOTA, FLA.- Selby Gardens announces The Orchid Show 2025: Rebecca Louise Law, on view at the Downtown Sarasota campus October 11 through December 7, 2025.

The Orchid Show 2025, presented by Better-Gro®, features the work of British contemporary artist, Rebecca Louise Law, who is well known for creating immersive installations using natural materials. Rebecca’s beautiful installation at Selby Gardens occupies the Richard and Ellen Sandor Museum of Botany & the Arts at the Downtown Sarasota campus. Here visitors are encouraged to navigate through a quiet and contemplative space filled with preserved flowers, leaves, and other plant parts suspended from the ceiling.

President & CEO of Selby Gardens, Jennifer Rominiecki, commented, "Rebecca’s breathtaking installation invites our visitors into a space where art and nature are not just in dialogue—they are one and the same. It’s an honor to showcase her work alongside our living orchid displays, which together create a truly immersive experience like no other.”

Accompanying Law’s installation is a stunning presentation of living orchids and other plants in the Display Conservatory. Designed by Selby Gardens’ horticulture team, the presentation draws inspiration from both Rebecca’s work and the institution’s own preserved plant collections. The spectacular results blur the lines between art and nature in fun and surprising ways.

Rebecca Louise Law (b. 1980) is a contemporary British artist well known for creating immersive installations using natural materials. Her most widely recognized works feature preserved flowers, individually sewn and suspended. Over the past 20 years, Rebecca has amassed a vast archive of more than 2 million preserved flowers, which she has exhibited across the globe. Flowers are added to this growing body of material with each new installation, reflecting each new location where Rebecca’s work is presented. Flowers from both Selby Gardens' campuses have been added for this purpose to Rebecca's ever-expanding collection.

Rebecca’s wider practice spans painting, printmaking, weaving, glass, pottery, video, and more. Her work explores the complexity of our human connection to nature, aiming to inspire a deeper appreciation of the natural world.

Rebecca’s installation at Selby Gardens explores the theme of survival, which is relevant to the institution and its collections in several ways.

In Rebecca’s own words, “Marie Selby Botanical Gardens has taken my breath away with its devotion to conservation. Preservation is present throughout both campus locations… I was touched by the hands that work with nature and the minds that have devoted their lives to care for this earth. A word came to mind whilst studying the array of plants in the collection – Survival. I have always been fascinated by the flower and its ability to evolve and attract. I have also been obsessed with our human relationship with the earth and our struggle to find a peaceful balance. It is all survival. The natural world is striving to survive and the physical and spiritual connection we have with nature is essential for our own survival.”