Tag Archive for Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

Exhibition | Northern Lights | Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

Image: Polixeni Papapetrou, The Provider, pigment ink print edition of 8, 2009, City of Darebin art collection

Northern Lights Friday 1 March – Sunday 5 May, 2013 In a search for the sublime, subliminal and seminal, Northern Lights celebrates the creative wealth of women artists in the northern suburbs of Melbourne whose diverse backgrounds and experiences are connected by location. The majestic landscape and its human intervention are seen in the work of Rosalind Atkins, Peta Clancy, Georgina Cue, Aunty Gwen Garoni, Siri Hayes, Anna Hoyle, Rebecca Mayo and Polixeni Papapetrou. Interior explorations – architectural, domestic and anatomic – are revealed in the work of Louise Blyton,…

Exhibition | Cloudy Sensoria, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

Jason Parmington & Cara-Ann Simpson  Bundoora Homestead sonic mirror #1 2012  digital image  Collection of the artists

Cloudy Sensoria October 19 2012 - December 2 2012 From light phenomena to sound, qualities of smell and the dispersal of air in space, Cloudy Sensoria explores the intangible forms of sensation. The exhibition acts as a site specific interpretation of the time shifting experiences at Bundoora Homestead. Originally the home of an aristocratic family, then an institution for men deeply traumatised and often disfigured by war; no one lives here anymore, it is now a cultural centre, a place for ideas and contemplation. As if the walls could tell…

Exhibition | Time Machine: Sue Ford

Sue Ford Self-portrait 1961  chromogenic print, printed 2011 26 × 19.9 cm courtesy Sue Ford Archive

Time Machine: Sue Ford August 31 2012 - October 14 2012, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre Sue Ford (1943–2009) was one of Australia’s most important photographers and filmmakers. Ford studied photography at RMIT and in 1974 was the first Australian photographer accorded a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. The exhibition describes a period when photography was charged with political and personal meaning. It provides a great opportunity for audiences to reassess the talent of this important photographer, whose work was at once political, beautiful and elegiac. In an…