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Bundanon Trust

Locality: Illaroo

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25.01.2022 We had some visitors back this week - the lovely Glossy Black Cockatoos! They love feeding on the allocasuarina trees and were spotted on the ridge above the Amphitheatre.

23.01.2022 Sophie OBriens #curatorspick this week is a textile work by contemporary artist Martine Peters. "This work one of a series of seven is a small, delicate response made in residence here at Bundanon. The bright colour blocks of embroidery on handwoven cotton sit alongside watermarks, earth and charcoal stains. An ephemeral sampler, it encapsulates a full, messy engagement with nature, as well as toying with the late Modernist ambition for a clean perfection." Martine Peters, Surface, 2006-7. Bundanon Trust Collection.

23.01.2022 Just released and available to stream online! Our program 'We Need To Talk About Fire' explores the ongoing impact of the Black Summer Bushfires. The program includes an extraordinary film series exploring the ongoing impact the fires have had on individuals, community, and land. Filmed largely at Bundanon, speakers share stories of community action, Indigenous knowledge systems, healing initiatives and creative responses to find a way forward. The films were directed and pro...duced by celebrated filmmaker Bridget Ikin, and presented by proud Quandamooka man Wesley Enoch AM, writer and the current director of Sydney Festival. Find out more and stream now: https://www.bundanon.com.au/we-need-talk-about-fire/ Chris Palmer, District Inspector from the NSW Rural Fire Service, Shoalhaven, at Bundanon. Photo: John Janson-Moore.

23.01.2022 Listen to Arthur Boyd talk about his hopes for Bundanon to become a gift to artists. Below artist Anna Glynn shares her memories of Arthur for #AB100. "I was fortunate in 1993 to be invited by Arthur to spend time at Bundanon helping him prepare for his upcoming exhibitions. I was already a full time artist but thought that this would be a great opportunity to see what his art world was like. Also who gets offered a chance like this?"... "So began more than a year of 4 wheel driving around the property with the canvasses strapped to the ute. Paints and brushes secured and Arthur hanging on for dear life as we ventured to different locations to paint. Sometimes Yvonne would accompany us and read poetry and if we were well organised there would be a picnic. So apart from preparing canvasses and keeping the studio ready, Arthur insisted that I paint along side him. I loved the way he painted with his hands directly onto the canvasthe taut fabric acting like a drumbeating a rhythm as his work emerged. He encouraged me to go beyond what I was doing, to imagine bigger stories," said Anna Glynn.

22.01.2022 In honour of National Science Week Mary Preece, our Education Manager, snapped this beautiful local flora on her travels through Bundanon. Early spring sightings. Touched By The Earth, is one of the education programmes offered at Bundanon, which combines science, ecology and education. Go to www.bundanon.com.au for more information about programmes and visiting us on open days. Images include from left to right, Hardenbergia violacea - Purple Coral Pea, Indigofera australis - Australian Indigo, a Pultenaea species - Bush Pea and Pandorea pandorana- Wong-Wonga Vine.

22.01.2022 Fabulous to have WIN News at Bundanon today. The build of the Art Museum is on schedule with the doors opening at the end of this year.

22.01.2022 This week conservator David Stein shares his memory of working with Arthur and restoring his paintings for #AB100 "My enduring memory of Arthur and Bundanon was in 1994. I was asked to go down to meet with Arthur Boyd to talk about his paintings stored at Bundanon. Many of his paintings were in storage containers out in the paddocks. They had suffered from high heat, damp, insect and rodent activity. Nine large paintings were rolled up in the room at Bundanon, now Jen Thomps...ons office at Bundanon. Arthur helped me unroll them. They had been removed from their stretchers in the 1960s and rolled up and not moved since then. I put them in the back of my car and took them to my studio in Rose Bay. I restored them and continue to care for them today," said David Stein. Video of David Stein and Tony Ameneiro caring for artworks by Arthur Boyd. #AB100 is a celebration of Arthur Boyds 100th birthday. It brings together anecdotes and memories of Arthur from those who knew him, as well as insight into what Bundanon means to contemporary artists today.

21.01.2022 Red Room Poetry has commissioned this anthology of poems, Guwayu - For All Times published by Magabala Books. Red Room Poetry has a long standing relationship with Bundanon. Edited by Dr Jeanine Leane (former Artist in Residence and 2019 Red Room Fellow). It features 63 poems in 12 First Nations Languages. Watch tonight at 7pm when the Guwayu anthology will be launched as part of the Melbourne Spoken Word online festival program. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/events/582973542614286

21.01.2022 Pterostylis curta, commonly known as the Blunt Greenhood Orchid, is a beautiful native orchid. We were delighted to find these beauties poking through last week.

21.01.2022 Exploring the collection this week, Sophie picks this painting by artist Jock Young. Young completed this painting of the Shoalhaven River while in residence at Bundanon in 2000. Jock Young, Brown river Shoalhaven I, 2000

20.01.2022 #AB100 Don Featherstone shares a memory of working with Arthur: "As part of the documentary we made about Arthur in 1985 we followed as he created a large en plein air painting of The Bathers then observed as he translated it to a large studio work. We were amazed at the speed he painted. Using his fingers and palm he applied thick layers of paint creating sky, clouds, pulpit rock, riverside boulders, a black dog or a hillside and then swiftly and deftly switched to a small... brush with extra long strands of bristle looping gum tree crowns of eucalyptus leaves over white upright trunks. All the time offering rare insights into his life and art. In the studio he painted to music, his tape player almost an artwork itself with the play, stop and rewind buttons daubed in the colours of his palette. Most memorable was his generosity and humility. He was Australias finest painter but completely approachable and generous with his time and spirit. Even to the extent of operating our 16mm camera with a paint brush attached. Image credit: Featherstone productions

20.01.2022 The team are at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre this week helping with the installation of the exhibition, 'Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul'. Opening this Saturday, Jennifer Thompson, Bundanon's Collection and Exhibitions Manager will give a Floor Talk at 11:00am. Book online here: https://bit.ly/3qBXwZ9

20.01.2022 Arthur Boyd regularly used paints from Australian family business, Art Spectrum Manufacturing. They supplied Arthur with this beautiful hand painted colour chart to choose from. We love the variation from light to dark on each block. #repost @thevalueoftourism

20.01.2022 There a few spots still left to join Uncle Steven Russell and Aunty Phyllis Stewart for the first of Bundanons cultural walks THIS SUNDAY at Bundanon. Uncle Steven Russell and Aunty Phyllis Stewart will be discussing Indigenous technology and tool making, fibre techniques and the use of materials in the making of Bundanons Nawi. Walk start time is 10:30 am for 11:00 start. Book online @ https://bit.ly/2ZhvBTl

19.01.2022 ABC came to Bundanon to film the 5 Artists-in-Residence who stayed with us last week as part of the @accessiblearts and @bundanon partnership. If you missed it last night, Watch at ABC News NSW Friday 23/10/2020 in iview https://iview.abc.net.au//abc/series/0/video/NU2001H255S00

18.01.2022 On the 29th of July we reached a new milestone! The bridge that will lead visitors across the gully to the new gallery and facilities has been lifted into place. Photos by Heidrun Lohr.

18.01.2022 It's been over three months since the construction of our new subterranean art museum and creative learning centre began here at Bundanon. As you can see in this latest drone footage, work is well underway! Visit our website to find out more: https://bit.ly/2TeRAqJ

18.01.2022 Congratulations Janet Laurence on being awarded the 2020 Australian Antartic Arts Fellow. Laurence is one of Australias leading contemporary artists, and at Bundanon has created Treelines Track in partnership with Landcare Australia. Conceived by Laurence, the three-kilometre planted artwork weaves a connection between the old and new concepts of landscape. The walk is open to the public every Sunday, so visit us soon to enjoy.

17.01.2022 Now on at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre. Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul. This touring exhibition celebrates the landscape in Arthur Boyd’s work from youthful plein air subjects celebrating light, to the final phase of Boyd’s career depicting the Shoalhaven on the south coast of New South Wales. The exhibition will be at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre until 2 May 2021.... Read more: https://www.bundanon.com.au//arthur-boyd-landscape-of-the/

17.01.2022 Its #landcareweek and we want to acknowledge the efforts and hardwork of our Bundanon Landcare group of volunteers and staff. This group is dedicated to the maintenance and restoration of Bundanons natural resources. We couldnt do it without them! In its early days these projects and working bees were led by Ralph Dixon and Tim Dallimore, pictured here participating in the project to restore the Shoalhaven River habitats. #bundanon #landcare #volunteers #thankyou Shoalhaven Landcare Landcare Australia

16.01.2022 #AB100 We invited Susan Wyndham to reflect on her experiences as an artist in residence at Bundanon. "My Bundanon residency in 2018 was an inspiring time for my writing for many reasons: the spacious studio with a view of grazing kangaroos, the mixture of solitude and stimulating company, intense work refreshed by magical walks, visits to the Homestead and art collection, and always a restful sense of being away from the hubbub. I made satisfying progress on a novel, and whi...le still unfinished the writing now contains references to Bundanon’s landscape and art, and holds the spirit of Arthur Boyd’s generous legacy. What a privilege to feel that intimacy with such an important site of cultural history." - Susan Wyndham You can read Susan's full response on our website: https://www.bundanon.com.au/ab100/ Susan Wyndham

16.01.2022 Visit Bundanon and view Ruth Maddison's exhibition 'When No Birds Sing'. Maddison was caught in the vortex of the fires at Eden and recorded the drama of dark skies and the role of local evacuation centres. In the weeks after the fires, she was called on by friends and neighbours to document their resilience in rebuilding their homes. This exhibition is the new series of photographs captured by Maddison during this period. This exhibition will be on view in the Bundanon Homes...tead until 28 February 2021, as part of our summer program, 'We Need to Talk about Fire'. Bundanon is open every Sunday. Book online: https://www.bundanon.com.au/whats-on/open-days/ Ruth Maddison, 'Walking towards Aslings Beach. 7.14 am, 31 December 2019', 2019.

14.01.2022 Sophie OBrien, Bundanons new Head of Curatorial and Learning, talks to Gina Fairley from Arts Hub about her previous experiences working internationally as a curator and her plans for the new light-filled bushfire proof, subterranean gallery and collections store, which will house the $43 million art collection, as well as the world-class creative learning centre.

14.01.2022 70,000 trees planted! Bundanon registered for the Carbon Credit scheme in 2014 and has since planted over 70,000 trees to restore the landscape. In 2020 Bundanon was issued with almost 12,000 100% clean energy ACCUs by the Australian Government Clean Energy Regulator. When you visit us for our Open Days, you can see this carbon forest from the Bundanon Homestead. Photo: John Janson-Moore

13.01.2022 #Sophies pick from the Bundanon collection. An unexpected Arthur Boyd painting, this little board is scratched and bumped, with thumb prints around the edges. This is most definitely a more northern hemisphere landscape, with muted, soft colours and low hills. However, the delicate little branches in the doorway literally foreground a freedom and movement of line that remained with Boyd throughout his practice. Arthur Boyd, Looking out the studio door, Suffolk, 1979, oil on board.

13.01.2022 Construction on the new contemporary museum and world class creative learning centre began in July this year. Watch the progress video from ADCO Constructions.

12.01.2022 This week, Sophie explores the collection and picks this work by Lucy Boyd, Arthur and Yvonne’s daughter. Here, a grey and black glazed bird perches, wonkily animated amongst the fingerprint indigo smudges on a simple vessel form. Lucy Boyd, 'Vase with bird', 1972

12.01.2022 Vanessa Cavanagh is an Aboriginal woman with Bundjalung (NSW north coast) and Wonnarua (NSW Hunter region) ancestry. She is currently a PhD student and associate lecturer at @uow where her research interests are in Australian Indigenous Geographies, focusing on Aboriginal women’s engagement in cultural burning practices in NSW. In the film 'Nurturing Country', Vanessa Cavanagh discusses the role that women and children have played in caring for Country through the use of fire. 'We Need To Talk About Fire'. Stream the series now https://www.bundanon.com.au/we-need-talk-about-fire/

11.01.2022 Our CEO, Deborah Ely, has this week announced her intention to step down from the role in mid-2021. Her departure will coincide with the physical completion of Bundanon’s ambitious new arts infrastructure, designed to house the $43M Boyd art collection, and set to transform the cultural tourism of the NSW South Coast. As a staff, we are very sorry to see Deborah leave, but understand that the timing has been carefully considered with Bundanon moving into a new chapter. We are... all glad to have a further 6 months with Deborah before the new infrastructure is handed back over from ADCO (construction company) to Bundanon. "I feel exceptionally privileged to have directed the company for over fourteen years... The number of remarkable artists with whom I have had the opportunity to work, and the creative freedom of the role, have been a gift. It has been a joy to work in such an environment, and I would like to thank the board and staff for their support in helping to realise the Masterplan and programs. Deborah Ely Read more: https://bit.ly/3qr6auy Deborah Ely. Photo: William Yang

11.01.2022 This week, Sophie picks an artwork from our collection that is inspired by a familiar subject. Rodney Spooner's sculptural piece depicts the Single Man's Hut. This building here at Bundanon is a farm worker's cottage, dating from the 19th Century. The hut reflects Scottish cultural norms, in that 'bothies' or single quarters were provided on Scottish estates for single estate workers. Such buildings are rare in the Shoalhaven region. 1. Rodney Spooner, Singleman’s Hut, 2000, 2. Single Man's Hut, photo: John Janson-Moore.

10.01.2022 Drone footage of the Masterplan build at Bundanon. Note the footbridge installed. We look forward to seeing our first visitors cross the bridge late 2021! #bundanon #kerstin_thompson_architects photo credit JBG

10.01.2022 Judith Nangala Crispin is an artist in residence at the Writers Cottage this week. She is currently planning the manuscript of her newest book, an illustrated verse novel entitled The Dingos Noctuary. This book will include botanical pressings, maps, drawings, poems, prose and lumachrome glass prints. Judith is a poet and visual artist working in alternative photographic techniques and lumachrome glass printing. She is poetry editor for The Canberra Times and a Creative Mentor for PAW Media Productions in Yuendumu. Judith is the author of two books of poetry and a book of collected photographs of Warlpiri people in the Tanami Desert.

09.01.2022 After the rain at Bundanon. In the foreground are water tanks, which are part of the new ember suppression system installed to protect Bundanon from bush fire. Photo by Robyn Backen.

09.01.2022 In 2013 artist Camille Serisier stayed at Bundanon as an artist-in-residence, where she created this work inspired by Arthur Boyds Horse Skull Under a Blanket and a Starry Sky. During her residency, Camille explored the history of Australian landscape painting and reinterpreted different works by Arthur Boyd in the landscape at Bundanon. Camille Serisier. After Arthur, 2013.

09.01.2022 Sophies pick: "Gently, delicately bucolic, this overcast landscape brings a sense of dream-state to our little lake here at Bundanon. It has an ephemerality and lightness of touch in its colour palette, but this runs somewhat counter to the bigger, darker stories hidden in the trees. We can see the artist thinking through drawing." Shaun Tan, Cloudy landscape, Bundanon, 2008

09.01.2022 #AB100 - Richard Morecroft, the long-running host of ABC News, conservationist, and previous Bundanon Trust board member, talks about the vision of Arthur and Yvonnes gift of Bundanon to the Australian people. Richard Morecroft (Official)

09.01.2022 Earlier this week, with Victoria's borders now open, Melbourne based architect Kerstin Thompson visited the construction site of the new art museum and the bridge for the first time since 2019. The teams from Bundanon and Kristin Thompson Architects also were offsite inspecting new concrete and steel materials that will form significant parts of the new art museum and the bridge for creative learning. When Kerstin visited in August 2019 a recording of her conversation with writer Caroline Baum was made. If you missed this live, click on the below link to listen online. https://bit.ly/3mf9zKy

09.01.2022 Congratulations to the 5 artists who have been selected to take part in the 2020 Accessible Arts & Bundanon Artist-in-Residence program. This program aims to empower the creativity and careers of professional artists with disability. Bernadette Smith, Eugenie Lee, Liz Cooper, Michelle Teear and Rhiannon Pegler will each undertake a 1-week residency at Bundanon from 12 18 October. Accessible Arts credit: Eugenie Lim

09.01.2022 Construction of the new subterranean gallery and creative learning centre is right on schedule despite the recent wild weather. We hope you enjoy this video drone footage of the build site. ADCO Constructions

09.01.2022 Join our team! Bundanon is hiring a Marketing and Communications Officer. This new position will support the Marketing and Communications Manager to ensure clear communication of Bundanons messages across all channels. To find out more visit www.bundanon.com.au/about/employment

09.01.2022 Celebrating NAIDOC 2020's theme Always Was, Always Will Be, Bundanon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of this land, and recognises their continuous connection to culture, community and Country. Custodian Matt Simms, from Djiriba Waagura, performing Welcome to Country at the Bundanon amphitheatre, photo by John Janson-Moore.

08.01.2022 "Boats, the sea and the river are recurring elements in Arthur Boyd works. This choppy, blustery painting, with a hatted figure leaning in to the water and the wind, speaks to Arthurs noted interest in the work of Austrian artist Oskar Kokoshka; the little yellowy green horse perfectly captures the Expressionist spirit of those times. This painting is shortly to go to the coastal town of Geraldton in WA, as a part of our touring show Landscape of the Soul." Sophie OBrien, H...ead of Curatorial and Learning at Bundanon Trust, selects this painting by Arthur Boyd for her weekly pick. Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the the Soul, touring Geraldton Regional Art Gallery , Geraldton, WA 2 October - 14 November, 2020 : Arthur Boyd, Man launching boat, 1940, oil on canvas. Bundanon Trust Collection

07.01.2022 Our new Head of Curatorial and Learning, Sophie OBrien, will take over our Facebook every Wednesday. As she dives into her new role, she will share short videos and highlights of whats happening behind the scenes at Bundanon. Keep an eye out for her first #curatorspick tonight!

07.01.2022 Last week we welcomed our AIRs back on site with the arrival of Kate Champion, Lachlan Philpott, and Paul Mac.

07.01.2022 Abstract art or art museum roof? The new Art Museum at Bundanon is taking shape. Here we have an aerial shot of one of the concrete roof slabs poured by ADCO Constructions. Getting very exciting! by ADCO

07.01.2022 Heres another example of work carried out by our Landcare volunteers and staff. This is a before and after of Creek Walk. Once covered in invasive weeds, a few working bees quickly put an end to that! #landcareweek

07.01.2022 Almost 20 years ago, in 2002, the Shoalhaven region was impacted by bushfires. During his residency that same year, artist Jon Cattapan completed a series of watercolours in response to the events. 12 of Cattapan's watercolours from the series are in our collection. After the recent announcement of our summer program 'We Need to Talk about Fire', Sophie picks Cattapan's work as this week's collection highlight. Jon Cattapan, Bundanon Fire Series, 2002

07.01.2022 #AB100 "Bundanon became the metaphor of a kind of operatic Odyssey, from the innocent vales and shorelines of Mornington Peninsula of Arthur’s childhood to the cleansing purity of light and air at Shoalhaven, torn along the way with anxiety about a world misbehaving itself. It was nothing less than a vision of sanctuary for a planet and its people in trouble, preserved so well by its current custodians." Barry Pearce FUniSA, Emeritus Curator, Art Gallery of New South Wales.... Curator, Landscape of the Soul. Visit our website to read Barry Pearce's full response to Arthur Boyd's great legacy: https://www.bundanon.com.au/ab100/ Image: Arthur and Yvonne Boyd at Bundanon

07.01.2022 Bundanon recently commissioned posters by Wendy Murray themed around the bushfires and environmental issues arising from climate change. These can now be viewed in the homestead along with selected highlights from participants of the Wendy Murray workshops held in Nowra, September 2020. Visit our website to book in for one of our upcoming Open Days: https://www.bundanon.com.au/whats-on/open-days/

06.01.2022 Sophie OBrien, Head of Curation and Learning at Bundanon Trust visited Biennale of Sydney last week. She loved this work Brutal Family Roots 2020, by Mohammed Bourouissa. Bourouissa is a former artist-in-residence at Bundanon Trust and made this work whilst in residence.

06.01.2022 Reminder! Applications for Prelude 2021 residencies close next week on Sunday 23 August. To apply visit https://www.bundanon.com.au//prelude-composer-residence-p/ Rachael Dease 2020 Prelude Composer in Residence at Gallop House, Western Australia. Photo by Joe Kapiteyn.

06.01.2022 Last week, Kerstin Thompson Architects received (for the second time) a Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture (Houses) in the 2020 National Architecture Awards. Robin Boyd was a celebrated Australian architect and writer, and of course we also know him as Arthur Boyd's first cousin. Congratulations Kerstin Thompson Architects! Visit our website for an update on the construction of the new Art Museum and The Bridge: https://www.bundanon.com.au/riversdale-reimagined/

05.01.2022 #curatorspick "Shields snapshot style means I can almost feel the breeze and sunshine as I drive past this Bolong Road farm. Why is that telephone wires are such strong modern reference points for Australians (and Americans)? It may be the vast spaces we move across, the scale humans adapt to when they are outside the cities. The bleached out, stacked green bales belie the human work involved." Sophie OBrien, Head of Curatorial and Learning at Bundanon Trust, selects this p...hotograph by Tara Shield for her weekly pick. Tara Shield, Bolong Road #1, 2001. Bundanon Trust Collection.

05.01.2022 "If I had seen this in an old, dusty cabinet in an archaeological museum in Crete, I would not have been surprised. Soft earthy glazes are painted onto a hand-shaped jug, and the rabbit, bird and fox forever chase one another. Those little foxy claws and speckled tail could have been painted 50 years ago or 500," This week Sophie OBrien, Head of Curatorial and Learning, selects Jug with rabbit, bird and fox by David & Hermia Boyd for her #curatorspick. David & Hermia Boyd, Jug with rabbit, bird and fox, 1966. Bundanon Trust Collection.

05.01.2022 Artist Anne Ferran remembers working as an artist-in-residence @Bundanon. #AB100 My residency project was to explore Arthur and Yvonne Boyds personal library and to make some work about it. However the project kept growing until it included an artist book (Artists Library), a body of photographic work (Intimate Journals) and a touring exhibition. One of the things that make this library special is the way the interior space of the library opens directly onto the natural wor...ld outside. In Artists Library I tried to catch something of that closeness between inside and outside. It also led me to photograph the landscape around the house, and those photographs, overlaid with text, became the photographic series Intimate Journals. Image: Anne Ferran working on "Artists Library" in the Bundanon Homestead.

05.01.2022 Writer and broadcaster Caroline Baum shares her memories of Bundanon for #AB100. Photographed at her writing desk, the book which Caroline wrote part of whilst at Bundanon, a photo of wildlife taken by Caroline during her residency at Bundanon. "Seeing Arthurs brushes made of his childrens hair really struck me, the way it brought together his family life and his passion in a practice that meant he drew on whatever was to hand, so even though the hair in question was curly,... so what? He made a brush out of it, and then painted with the curl - the kind of inspired resourcefulness I love." "I think the dusk emergence of the wombats around the AIR studios was always a highlight of the day, as was swimming in the river when it was stinking hot, making friends with other artists in residence, having long conversations over shared meals at the end of the day about creative life and what that means in a real practical sense, i.e. away from media and non artists, talking honestly about the challenges, highs and lows." Caro Baum To read more visit bundanon.com.au/ab100

04.01.2022 Meryl Tankard AO, an Australian dancer and choreographer, 2019 remembers her 2019 residence. The times shared with other residents around a hearty meal exchanging stories from all our different backgrounds: Diana Simmonds Tamara Cislowska Elena Kats Chernin, Rwandan film maker Kantamara Cahigiri, poet Melanie Mununggurr Wiliams. Watching Tamara and Elena sitting at the Steinway and filling the whole valley with the most powerful sounds created. The Homestead alive again, inha...bited with creative genius again. Outside the cold wind, nature listening. Time for reflection. In the Musicians cottage, working out ideas for a revisit of the Wild Swans and a film score with Tamara and Elena. Bundanon a magical place, which offers a haven for contemplation but also creation, focus on whatever engages you at the time. Then the concert in Boyd Education Centre: brilliant space. Music alternate between sadness and exultation. Four hands criss-crossing, weaving a fabulous tapestry of sounds. Indelible memories of a short residency in Bundanon. And all the time there is the nature all round, the forest, the river the animals, all very inspiring. From left to right, Regis Lansac, Elena Kats-Chernin, Meryl Tankard, Tamara-Anna Coslowska, photo by @regislansac

04.01.2022 Children and teachers from Bomaderry Community Preschool enjoyed their visit to Bundanon today for Landcare Week, through the Junior Landcare community. The children planted grasses in an endangered ecological community woodland area, picked and bagged the invasive weed Fireweed and also made an artists book. This project is supported by Toyota Environmental Grant.

03.01.2022 "The whole painting captures the spirit of pineapple. Its chunky and spiky. It looks like Yvonne painted it swiftly the moment it was just sliced. Yvonne captured things around her, in her daily life and in the landscape. It has a three dimensional weightiness that I feel the artist Philip Guston would appreciate," said Sophie OBrien, Head of Curatorial and Learning at Bundanon. Whats your favourite work in Bundanons collection? Let us know. Yvonne Lennie (later Boyd), ...Pineapple on Chopping Board, oil on canvas, 1941, inscription on back: 28/12/1941 Yvonne Lennie. Bundanon Archive. #sophiespick #artcurator #bundanon #curatorslife @philipguston #yvonneboyd #curatortakeover

02.01.2022 This International Women's Day we're celebrating the staff, artists and volunteers who have supported Bundanon over the years. This year we must give a special shout out to our CEO, Deborah Ely, who has led the team and Bundanon's vision for over 14 years. The United Nations theme for International Women’s Day 2021 is: ‘Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world’. Deborah Ely, photo by William Yang; Siteworks 2016; Janet Lawrence, 'Treelines Track', photo by John Janson-Moore; The Bridge render by KTA.

02.01.2022 Visit Bundanon. Arthur Boyd's working studio at Bundanon remains one of the most significant artistic sites in the country. Left as it was when he finished working there in 1998 the studio unpacks the working method of the artist and was the place where many of his greatest artworks were created. Bundanon is open every Sunday. Plan your visit: https://bit.ly/2ZBO7FL