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La Trobe Art Institute

Locality: Bendigo, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5444 7272

Address: 121 View Street 3550 Bendigo, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 Now online! Support First Nations artists and art centres from all over Australia by checking out Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, including works by some of the incredible Tiwi artists from Jilamara Arts in Milikapiti on the Tiwi Islands. Timothy Cook and Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri from Jilamara Arts are also exhibiting at LAI in ‘One foot on the ground, one foot in the water’ later this year. We can’t wait to see their works in the gallery!

25.01.2022 A big congratulations to Cyrus Tang who is one of four artists to be awarded the 2020 National Small Sculpture Award, from McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery! Cyrus Tang exhibited in the LAI curated Visual Arts Program at last year’s Castlemaine State Festival - Congratulations Cyrus!!! Repost: McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery We are so pleased to announce the four awardees of the inaugural National Small Sculpture Awards 2020, an initiative of McClelland’s Director Lisa B...yrne to support sculptors during the initial stages of the impact of COVID-19 on the Australian arts and culture sector. We were truly amazed at the response by 320 sculptors, evidence of the significant need for income streams for the artistic community in our specialist field of sculpture. From these 320 submissions a group of 44 finalists have been selected and reflect a strong diversity of approaches to sculpture in the 21st Century. On behalf of the three Judges, Jason Smith, Director Geelong Art Gallery, and McClelland Trustees and Artists Lisa Roet and John Young AM, congratulations to the 44 finalists, and notably the four 2020 awardees, Kerrie Poliness, Cyrus Tang, Matt Hinkley and James Geurts. View all 44 finalists’ works on the McClelland website where you will find the online exhibition e-catalogue and stay tuned on Insta as we highlight each of the works over the coming weeks. #nationalsmallsculptureawards2020 #matthinkley #kerriepoliness #cyrustang #jamesgeurts #mcclellandsculptureparkandgallery

24.01.2022 Our facade has come alive with the artwork of Kay Abude now gracing the Institute in the spring sunshine. ‘WORK WORTH DOING’ is a complex project that is performance, textile, graphic design, sculpture and photography. First presented at the Castlemaine State Festival in 2019, we are thrilled to present this photographic image at scale on Bendigo’s View Street. Reflecting on the value of labour, it is a perfect rumination on our altered appreciation for essential work and wor...kers that has come from our current pandemic experience. Kay was the recipient of grants from Creative Vic and Hume City Council to develop and deliver this project, and worked directly with local business, cultural and educational partners to make it come to fruition. A fine example of an art-led project with multiple partners across various industries ... highlighting the value of arts labour to our broader social experience. La Trobe University La Trobe University, Bendigo #kayabude #workworthdoing #laifacade #contemporaryart #visitvictoria #bendigo #explorebendigo

23.01.2022 It’s NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK! Introducing Dr Donna Whelan, DECRA Fellow, Pharmacy & Biomedical Science, La Trobe University Dr Donna Whelan is a Bruce Stone Fellow in Chemical Biology based in Bendigo as a part of the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science. She is currently building a new, next-generation single molecule microscope, and exploring DNA damage and repair pathways. Her collaborations include research into the underlying mechanisms of host-virus interactions, neu...rodegeneration, and proteolysis. Prior to starting her own lab in Bendigo, Donna completed her PhD at Monash University, developing advanced microscopic and spectroscopic techniques for applications in biophysical research. During her PhD she constructed cutting-edge single molecule super-resolution microscopes and made extensive use of the Australian Synchrotron. Following this, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in New York University’s School of Medicine under the supervision of Dr Eli Rothenberg, focusing on applying super resolution imaging to map the cellular repair pathway of DNA double strand breaks. In early 2021, artist Danica Chappell will exhibit new work at La Trobe Art Institute, drawn from a collaborative engagement with Dr Donna Whelan and research she is undertaking using her own designed and built single-molecule laser microscope. Danica Chappell has a curiosity for spatial-temporal abstraction. Working with the elasticity of process from ‘darkroom haptic’ actions, the artist skirts the peripheries of photography to deconstruct material conventions. The exhibition will be presented as the next iteration of ‘Collaboratory’, a biennial exhibition series at La Trobe Art Institute that explores collaboration in contemporary art practice. During the exhibition LAI will also be an official exhibition site for PHOTO 2021. #nationalscienceweek #photo2021 #drdonnawhelan #danicachappell #artscience #chemicalbiology #molecularscience #biophysics #singlemoleculeimaging #dnadamage #collaboratory #latrobeartinstitute

21.01.2022 ‘Tutini (Pukumani poles)’ carved by Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri and animated with jilamara (designs) by Timothy Cook. These works are currently on display in ‘One foot on the ground, one foot in the water’, an exhibition about mortality and the inseparable link between life and death. ‘The Pukumani ceremony is the culmination of ritual mourning for a deceased person in Tiwi culture. Several months after the burial, family commission in-laws of the deceased to carve and deco...rate elaborate tutini. These are then placed at the gravesite during a performance of kawakawayi (song) and Yoyi (dance), and tunga (bark bags) are placed upside down on top of the poles to signify the end of life. These sculptural objects are left to the elements, returning to the bush from which they are made. Traditionally Tiwi use bloodwood for tutini, but cured ironwood is the preferred timber for commercial carvings due to its durability. Current practice of carving Pukumani poles is an expression of the artist’s cultural heritage through contemporary art. They are created as an artistic form of expression to be viewed and appreciated by a broader public with the intention to maintain and share Tiwi cultural knowledge. Tutini carved with a pronged or forked apex represent the fight between Purukuparli and his brother Japarra (the moon man). Diamond and curved shapes are a form of female embodiment. Each pole represents all and everything that is Tiwi culture.’ (Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association, Milikapiti) Artwork (left to right): Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri and Timothy Cook ‘Tutini (Pukumani pole)’ 2020; 2020; 2019 natural earth pigments on ironwood 238 x 27 x 22 cm; 210 x 17 x 31 cm; 204 x 28 x 19 cm Courtesy of the artist and Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association, Milikapiti. The presentation of these works has been supported by Chapman & Bailey, Melbourne. This exhibition has received assistance from National Exhibitions Touring Support - NETS Victoria’s Exhibition Development Fund 2020 supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. #timothycook #patrickfreddypuruntatameri #tiwiart #tutini #pukumani #pukumanipoles #jilamara #onefootontheground #onefootinthewater #latrobeartinstitute

20.01.2022 Visit the 14th Annual Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair - explore art and culture from your home.

19.01.2022 How do you feel about crowds and public spaces? This issue of Education Matters explores Simon Terrill's 'Crowd Theory - Southbank' from the collections of La Trobe University. Edition #10 - https://mailchi.mp/latrobe.edu/education-matters-edition-10

19.01.2022 It’s NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK! Meet Dr Jim Radford, Principal Research Fellow, Ecology, Environment & Evolution at La Trobe University Dr Jim Radford is the Principal Research Fellow in the La Trobe Research Centre for Future Landscapes. The Research Centre aims to find solutions and develop next-generation tools to address the global challenge of sustaining natural ecosystems and biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes under climate change. With colleagues from La Trobe, o...ther universities, government and industry, Jim is undertaking research into the outcomes of landscape change on ecological communities and native wildlife, practices to increase the ecological and social sustainability of farming, integrating nature conservation into landscape design and management, and approaches to improve biodiversity monitoring at broad spatial and temporal scales. Jim completed his PhD on the breeding biology and conservation ecology of the White-browed Treecreeper at Deakin University in 2002. Since then, Jim's research has focused on: (1) Development of ‘whole-of-landscape’ approaches to analysing and interpreting relationships between native fauna and changes in their environment. In association with Prof Andrew Bennett, Jim argues that effective biodiversity conservation requires understanding and inference at a landscape scale. The consequence of this is that the ‘landscape’ becomes the unit of study and replication. (2) Identification and evaluation of ecological thresholds. Jim's research into ecological thresholds has contributed to the development of thresholds as a management tool for biodiversity conservation. (3) Integrating science into conservation management. During Jim's time in the not-for-profit conservation sector (2008-2016), Jim made a concerted effort to increase scientific literacy in the sector and to incorporate science into ‘business as usual’. This resulted in evidence-based reports on the ecological outcomes of investment for donors and supporters, development of an ‘ecological scorecard’ for reserves (see https://www.bushheritage.org.au/what-we-/science/scorecards) and embedding evidence-based decision-making into management. (4) Improving monitoring design and implementation. Long-term monitoring at an appropriate spatial scale is essential to evaluate the effectiveness of conservation management actions or to quantify the impact of land-use changes on the natural environment. Jim has a keen interest in improving the way we monitor and ensuring monitoring results are incorporated into an adaptive management cycle. Image: Dr Jim Radford delivering a pop up talk at Castlemaine Festival 2019 surrounded by artwork by Taichi Nakamura. #drjimradford #jimradford #scienceweek #latrobescience #ecology #environment #evolution #climatechange #climatescience #centreforfuturelandscapes

13.01.2022 In Education Matters - Edition 10 we take a close look at an artwork from the La Trobe University Art Collection. ‘Crowd Theory - Southbank’ (2007), is a photograph by London-based Australian artist Simon Terrill. The work is part of a series in which the artist invites people to gather in urban public spaces to be photographed as part of a crowd. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, representations of crowds have renewed meaning and raise new questions and concerns. The ...resources included in this edition of Education Matters are designed to encourage student-led conversations around public and private spaces and the corresponding behaviours of individuals and groups. Available via https://mailchi.mp/latrobe.ed/education-matters-edition-10 Victorian Curriculum: Geography: Level D and Foundation to 10 (Places, Spaces and Interconnection) and VCE Art Unit 2: Contemporary Artworks and Culture, VCE Geography Unit 4: Human Population Trends and Issues. Artwork: Simon Terrill, Crowd Theory - Southbank (2007), type C photograph, 180 x 240 cm. Produced in association with Footscray Community Art Centre. La Trobe University Art Collection, LTU2390. #simonterill #crowdtheory #southbank #photography #latrobeuniversityartcollection #spacesplacesinterconnection #vceart #contemporaryartworksandculture #vcegeography #arteducation #artresources #educationmatters #teachingresources #learningresources #artlearning #educationprogram #latrobeartinstitute

07.01.2022 We are thrilled to see new artwork go into place on our facade. Kay Abude WORK WORTH DOING (2019)... Installed on the facade of La Trobe Art Institute, this multilayered photograph addresses the View Street arts precinct and neighbouring cafes, restaurants and wine bars. It calls attention to ideas of work, service, hospitality and the value of artistic labour that have become urgent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Melbourne-based artist Kay Abude created the photograph for a La Trobe University project at the 2019 Castlemaine State Festival. The image shows a hospitality worker undertaking his duties in the manufacturing and production zone of Castlemaine’s Shedshaker Brewery. The worker wears an artwork modelled on a high-visibility vest and screen-printed with the words ‘WORK WORTH DOING’. Abude took the phrase from a speech made by Theodore Roosevelt in 1903, in which he stated: ‘Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing’. Through this staged image, Abude asks: What is the value of doing a good job, working hard and giving it our best? She asks this of herself too. Abude’s photograph loosely refers to a history of artworks that similarly frame the precarity of work. ‘A bar at the Folies-Bergere’, the French Impressionist painting by Edouard Manet, portrays an enigmatic barmaid at a Parisian cabaret in the 1880s. Artists such as the Australian realist painter John Brack (‘The bar’, 1954) and contemporary Canadian photographer Jeff Wall (‘Picture for women’, 1979), among others, have made works that link Manet’s famous picture with their own context. The portraits of locals in the background of Kay Abude’s image were part of an exhibition by artists Daniel Butterworth, Jennifer Barnett, Donna Anderson and Emilie Hanson held at the brewery’s taproom as part of the 2019 Fringe Festival. #kayabude #workworthdoing La Trobe University La Trobe University, Bendigo #laifacade #contemporaryart #bendigo #explorebendigo #visitvictoria

07.01.2022 ‘Garnkiny ngelmang rurt ngarri nginji. Wardel tal kerlurr ngarrkalen laarne pertij nginyi tanyi garnkiny. Wiji ke ngarri ngurramangpe ngewa tampurru-kal. Gangpelkpe nginini. Kerlewirring tek nginini Nginini pirri nangkap parrrun na nginini pirri ngayimuwana murlinte ngenpenke. Purapurap ngeliyante wanemay pirri melakawum tam. Wurrji ngarri perrani yilak. Taam merrkernpem purakarr ngeliyante Nangkapwa perrayin kili namuwana ngininji. Merrkern taam nginji purap ngitji. Taam mer...rkernpem.’ ‘Well this the dream by Wardel and Garnkiny (star and moon). That’s what my mother and father told me about that Dream. The moon sits in the east. The star sits on top of the hills, the moon came and climbed that hill. That moon loved his mother-in-law, but they told him he couldn’t love her and to go away. He left with shame and climbed up the hill and he was looking from on top [of the hill]. He told all the people that they were going to die. He said that he would be the only one living. He cursed those people, saying that he would be the only one coming back alive. He told them, while they were sitting down, ‘you are all going to die and I will be still alive, coming out. Every month I will rise from the dead’. They all died and he was the only one that stayed alive. He came back as the moon every month.’ (Mabel Juli. Gija transcription & translation by Frances Kofod) This is Yarin country in Darrajayin (Springvale Station), south of Warmun, Mabel Juli’s traditional country. (Warmun Art Centre) Mabel Juli features in our current exhibition ‘One foot on the ground, one foot in the water’, open until 17 Jan 2021. We are now open Sat & Sun 12-5pm / Tues-Fri 10am-5pm (closed Mondays). Artwork: Mabel Juli Garnkiny Ngarranggarni (detail) 2020 natural earth pigments and charcoal on linen 120 x 180 cm Courtesy of the artist and Warmun Art Centre Photo: Ian Hill This exhibition has received assistance from National Exhibitions Touring Support - NETS Victoria’s Exhibition Development Fund 2020 supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. #mabeljuli #garnkiny #ngarranggarni #wardelgarnkiny #warmunart #gija #gijaart #onefootontheground #onefootinthewater #latrobeartinstitute

06.01.2022 Congratulations to all of the artists selected as finalists in The Paul Guest Prize 2020! We are delighted to see a number of artists we have previously worked with/are currently working with/are working with on future projects! What a lineup! We cannot wait to see the finalist exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery, bringing some of the best to regional Victoria! Repost @bendigoartgallery The Paul Guest Prize 2020 finalists have been named. We had so many great entries and we wis...h we could have put everyone through. Congratulations to the 42 finalists and we look forward to seeing their entries in the finalist exhibition, 17 October 2020 to 7 February 2021. The winner will be announced 16 October 2020. Finalists: Zoe Amor Mary Barton Belle Bassin Adam Boyd Matthew Clarke Steve Cox Leo Coyte Sam Cranstoun Adam Cusack Julia Davis + Lisa Jones Mark Dober Stephen Eastaugh Craig Easton Carolyn Eskdale James Geurts Minna Gilligan Deanne Gilson Richard Grigg James Hale Alex Hamilton Euan Heng Mark Hislop Laura E Kennedy Elliott Kuhlmann Adam Lee Richard Lewer Roman Longginou Sue Lovegrove Simon MacEwan Jordan Marani Lily Mae Martin Alasdair McLuckie Betty Muffler Nicole O’Loughlin David Palliser Rosslynd Piggott Pip Ryan Natalie Ryan David Sequeira Vivian Cooper Smith Tiger Yaltangki Heidi Yardley

05.01.2022 La Trobe Art Institute online public programs One foot on the ground, one foot in the water - https://mailchi.mp//public-programs-one-foot-on-the-ground

03.01.2022 Nell’s ‘I AM Passing through’ (2017) from the multipart work ‘With things being as they are...’ (2017) is currently on display in ‘One foot on the ground, one foot in the water’, at La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo until 17 January 2021. ‘One foot on the ground, one foot in the water’ explores the subject of mortality and the inseparable link between life and death. The exhibition features works from eleven contemporary artists, that challenge us to reckon with death and dyin...g as an inherent part of life, invoking experiences of loss, impermanence, transience, remembrance, memorialisation and their own expressions of grief. Artwork: Nell I AM Passing through 2017 earthenware, enamel paint 63 x 44 x 45 cm Courtesy of the artist and STATION, Melbourne and Sydney. Photo: Ian Hill. This exhibition has received assistance from National Exhibitions Touring Support - NETS Victoria’s Exhibition Development Fund 2020 supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. #nell #nellartist #withthingsbeingastheyare #IAMpassingthrough #stationgallery #onefootontheground #onefootinthewater #latrobeartinstitute

03.01.2022 French & Mottershead’s ‘Grey Granular Fist’ (2017), presented for the first time in Australia in our current exhibition ‘One foot on the ground, one foot in the water’, open until 17 Jan 2021. Due to the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 the audio component of this work is available online at https://soundcloud.com//grey-granular-fist-one-foot-on-the for the duration of the exhibition, thanks to the generosity of the artists. The artists request that you are seated when experien...cing the work. ‘Grey Granular Fist’ is an experiential sound work that explores transformation and the life that exists beyond life itself. One of four works from French & Mottershead’s ‘Afterlife’ series, ‘Grey Granular Fist’ offers listeners an intimate, visceral and poetic glimpse of our own mortality. Andrew Mottershead has commented that the ‘Afterlife’ series ‘stems from a combination of personal fear connected to dying alone and not being found, and also a curiosity about the science of decomposition and decay [...]. It’s all about the life that occurs after that last breath, about the process of transformation and renewal’. ‘Grey Granular Fist’ reminds us that we are part of a much larger biological system. It suggests that we might find solace in being part of a life cycle outside of our own lived experience one that we are created from and in time return to. The presentation of this work has been supported by Bendigo Tech School and Jacques Sodell. Image: French & Mottershead, ‘Grey Granular Fist’ (2017) listening session, 2019. Photo: Wellcome Collection. Courtesy of the artists. This exhibition has received assistance from National Exhibitions Touring Support - NETS Victoria’s Exhibition Development Fund 2020 supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. #frenchandmottershead #greygranularfist #afterlife #onefootontheground #onefootinthewater #latrobeartinstitute

01.01.2022 Home schooling? Looking for educational activities for students? Edition 6 of ‘Education Matters’ provides a digital learning resource that focuses on the subject of light media in contemporary art, using ‘Autoluminescent’ as a case study. This resource is available via the follow link: https://www.latrobe.edu.au//Autoluminescent-Digital-Educat ‘Autoluminescent’ was an exhibition produced by La Trobe Art Institute in 2019, featuring artwork by Brendan Van Hek, Rebecca Bauma...Continue reading