Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
7-27 Snake Gully Drive, Bundoora
Wednesday - Friday 11am-4pm
Saturday - Sunday 12noon-5pm
free admission
What’s On
Scrub Man (from the series ‘ The Ghillies’) 2013
Two of a Kind
April 22, 2015 - May 31, 2015
Two of a Kind features contemporary works from the Darebin Art Collection alongside a new work by each of the artists, this exhibition will give you an insight into how an artists work changes over time.
Artists include: Peta Clancy, Paul Compton, Georgina Cue, Frances Gallagher, Gwen Garoni, Jennifer Goodman, Mathew Gove, Phil Harris, Katherine Hattam, Hilary Jackman, Michael Kelly, Ju Yuen Merran Chew, Will Murray, Adam Nudelman, Polixeni Papapetrou, Suzana Poljak, John Sheehan, Vipoo Srivilasa, Ray Thomas, Natalie Thomas, Peter Waples-Crowe & Sharon West.
Curated by Renee Cosgrave, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Succulents 2014
Botanica
May 27, 2015 - June 30, 2015
Botanica, is an exhibition of selected artworks from Melbourne Polytechnic students. For many of these artists this is their first opportunity to exhibit in public and a milestone in their careers.
The image displayed is from the 2014 Exhibition Botanica.
Colony 2012
Andamento
June 5, 2015 - August 2, 2015
This exhibition showcases five artists who work in the mosaic medium: Rachel Bremner, Donna Broadbent, Mikiah Nguyen, Cetta Pilati and Bev Plowman. Combining age old mosaic techniques and traditional materials of marble and smalti with modern materials of stained glass and found objects, the artists transform rigid materials to reveal Andamento; the rhythm and visual flow of their work.
The mosaic medium is tactile and emotive, with each piece of tesserae cut and placed by hand. As the process evolves, elements are imprinted with ideas, emotions and deliberations. The investment of the artist’s personality and the intimate connection it forms with the viewer makes these works unique.
Guest Curator: Fiona Tettman
Lancaster 2012
Northerner: a retrospective
July 1, 2015 - July 26, 2015
Combining humour, self reflection and outrage, Ben Holgate’s intricate drawings lure the viewer into an engaging narrative that is deeply rooted in place and experience. Cultural and local references abound in series of work based on notions such as ‘The War on Terror’, the contradictions of modern religiosity and how childhood experience continues to influence our sense of self throughout our lives. This retrospective includes ten years of Ben Holgate’s work since he moved to Melbourne’s Northern Suburbs from the North of England, via London, the Middle East, Hong Kong and Sydney.
2015
Along Route 86
July 29, 2015 - August 30, 2015
Kerry Maher has travelled on the Bundoora to Docklands tram route for many years observing architectural features and points of historical interest along the way. Despite the gentrification of some pockets of the commercial areas, Kerry has been attracted to the rich mix of building styles including Victorian, Art Nouveau and Art Deco.
For this exhibition, Along Route 86, Kerry has recorded some of the buildings and general urban landscapes that have appealed to him. Some of the featured subjects are found on the streets that line route 86, others can be reached in a few minutes. Kerry’s oil paintings are the result of numerous small pen and wash sketches coupled with small oil studies. From these Kerry paints larger oil paintings in his studio. Photographs are sometimes used as an additional reference.
Kerry has a Diploma of Art from RMIT, and has been teaching oil painting at the Diamond Valley Art Society for eighteen years, and also teaches at his home studio. Some of his work is held in the City of Darebin’s Art Collection and many private collections.
Sponsored by Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Unknown child, Merri Station 1977
The Northcote Hysterical Society: presented by David Wadelton
August 7, 2015 - September 27, 2015
Leading contemporary artist David Wadelton presents a selection of paintings and photographs capturing the architecture, people and character of Northcote and its surrounds since 1975. As a play on words, Wadelton began his first blog on the photo sharing platform Flicker and called it The Northcote Hysterical Society. Now a thriving Facebook page, Wadelton invites the viewer to engage and to share experiences and memories in relation to his work via social media. Wadelton capture’s the essence of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and today, via his visual journey down the High Street and its neighbourhood.
Curated by Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Red Series 2, 2013
What we do- What we wish
September 2, 2015 - October 4, 2015
Through the use of large colour photographs, Lisa White investigates the power of the sky and its ability to draw us in and allow us to transcend/ escape the present. Using minimal compositions of constructed sites, building and sky, the works draw upon society’s constant need to construct and de-construct its environment.
This series of work is inspired by Yoko Ono’s story of spending hours with her brother watching the sky and clouds drift past, inventing menus in their heads to counter hunger, during World War 2 food shortages. (Tristan Deratz)
Untitled 1981
Photography meets Feminism: Australian women photographers 1970s–80s
October 2, 2015 - November 6, 2015
Australian women photographers 1970s–80s will feature vintage prints of important photographs, many of which have not been seen for decades.
During this period of the late twentieth century, photography helped feminism and feminism helped photography. On the one hand, feminists used the highly informative and accessible medium of photography to raise awareness of critical social issues. On the other hand, photographic artists embraced feminist themes as a way of making their practice less esoteric and more engaged with contemporary life. This productive exchange between feminism and photography fostered a range of technical innovations and critical frameworks that radically transformed the direction of visual culture in Australia.
Artists in the exhibition include: Micky Allan, Pat Brassington, Virginia Coventry, Sandy Edwards, Anne Ferran, Sue Ford, Christine Godden, Helen Grace, Janina Green, Fiona Hall, Ponch Hawkes, Carol Jerrems, Merryle Johnson, Ruth Maddison, Julie Rrap and Robyn Stacey.
A Monash Gallery of Art travelling exhibition
Deer 2014
Our Studio
October 7, 2015 - November 1, 2015
Northern Support Services is a Northcote-based, not-for-profit community organisation that provides services to people who have intellectual disabilities and autism. This annual arts showcase highlights the outstanding work produced across a range of mediums by the studio’s artists.
We Gather 1 2013
The Sangam (confluence) of Belonging
November 4, 2015 - November 29, 2015
Varuni Kanagasundaram’s exhibition The Sangam (confluence) of Belonging explores the visual narrative of the hybrid minorities of the East who are migrants living in the West. Kanagasundaram’s ceramic artwork captures the dynamic nature of those moving ‘in-between’ traditions of East and West, represented as fabric with decorative elements borrowed from both.
