Australian season at the British Museum

Photograph of an indigenous man carrying an infant and a baby basket, early 20th century Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum

Sidney Nolan's Ram suspended in tree, 1954 Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum

Sidney Nolan's painting Kelly, 1954 Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum

Fred Williams, You Yangs series, 1963 Photograph: PR

Sidney Nolan, I named the hill Mount Hopeless, 1954 Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum

Tasmanian water carrier made from a single piece of bull kelp, one of the fastest-growing algae in the world Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum

A bicornial basket woven from cane, from Queensland, early 1900s Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum

A painted basket made of vegetable string fibre, Northern Territory Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum

A modern-day dilly bag made from natural and dyed pandanus fibre, Northern Territory Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum

Anigozanthos, better-known as kangaroo paw Photograph: Royal Botanic Gardens

Banksia integrifolia. Commonly known as Coast banksia, the species of tree grows along Australia's east coast Photograph: Royal Botanic Gardens

Flowers of a Brachychiton (bottletree) Photograph: Royal Botanic Gardens

Largarstrobos franklinii is a species of conifer native to south-west Tasmania Photograph: Royal Botanic Gardens

OCBIL – or old climatically buffered inselberg landscape in Australia Photograph: Royal Botanic Gardens