Art historian Claire Bishop observed that museums and galleries are an expression of what we consider culturally important, and that they also offer a space to reflect upon these values. A collection of works of art that has been built over time offers fascinating insights into what society has valued at particular points in history, as well as an opportunity to (re)consider the ways these works resonate today.
Bendigo Art Gallery has made the most of the lockdown period and taken the opportunity to conduct some vital maintenance work behind the scenes. We are delighted to reveal a dramatic refresh of our historic courts. Introducing Teal Tree!
As part of an extraordinary recent gift of the Honourable Paul Guest OAM QC, Bendigo Art Gallery has acquired a major work by Niuean-born New Zealand Aotearoa poet, painter and writer, John Puhiatau Pule. You Promised Me You Would Never Perish on Earth 2007 is the first work by Pule, who is one of the Asia Pacific region’s most acclaimed artists, to enter the Gallery’s collection.
The hardworking staff of Bendigo Art Gallery are putting the final touches on the major exhibition Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits ahead of its unveiling next week. An accompanying exhibition at Post Office Gallery will showcase the eventful visits of the British Royal family to Bendigo.
A new exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery tells the story of Christian Waller, celebrated Australian printmaker of the Art Deco era, and her niece, the pioneering ceramic artist, Klytie Pate.
The new exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery, Gothic Beauty: Victorian notions of love, loss and spirituality traces the Victorian gothic into contemporary art, and brings together the work of a variety of artists who explore these ideas.
Those who collect may nurture a singular obsession, for Australian art pottery perhaps, or postcards; or their passions may extend to many areas of collecting. One day late last year, not long after I had started working at Bendigo Art Gallery, a pair of Art Nouveau vases caught my eye as I walked through Abbott Court. Abbott Court is of course the eponymous Gallery of R.H. Abbott, one of Bendigo Art Gallery’s founders and originator of the R H S Abbott Bequest Fund that continues to support acquisitions of art to the Gallery’s collection.
