Facilitated by our First Nation’s Curator Shonae Hobson, join Josh Muir and Isobel Knowles as they discuss the intricacies of developing Going Solo.

Bookings essential 

10am Morning tea
10.30am – 11.30am Guest speaker

Places of cultural significance enrich people’s lives, often providing a deep and inspirational sense of connection to community and landscape, to the past and to lived experiences.

They are important expressions of Australian identity and experience, and may be significant for their aesthetic, historic, scientific, social or spiritual values, for past, present or future generations.

In conjunction with the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2019, join Charles Green, Professor of Contemporary Art in the School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne and Dr Rebecca Coates, Director Shepparton Art Museum for a lively discussion on painting in Australia today. 

10am Morning tea, 10.30am – 11.30am Guest speaker event

eX de Medici lives and works in Canberra by choice. The artist explores the various transmutations and vectors of the human instinct to accrue power and control, geo-economic systems are the artists favourite hobby. Artist eX de Medici will speak about her practice, including the influences and inspiration for her artworks.

Presented by the Friends of Bendigo Art Gallery.
Hearing loop available.

Art & Tea event

10am Morning tea, 10.30am – 11.30am Guest speaker event

Speaker: Dr Kylie Banyard, artist and Lecturer, Visual Arts and Visual Arts Coordinator, La Trobe University 

Kylie Banyard’s expansive painting practice incorporates installation, photography, video and sculpture and also intersects with fields such as architecture and education. In her work she explores the utopian imagination and the history of experimental models for living and learning.

10am Morning tea, 10.30am – 11.30am Guest speaker event
Artist Karen Ward will speak about her practice, including the influences and inspiration for her artworks

Presented by the Friends of Bendigo Art Gallery.

Hearing loop available.

This workshop is intended for organisations that wish to develop a Collection Policy or review their existing one. At the end of the workshop, participants will have the knowledge to develop a Collection Policy to National Standards which manages and protects their collection. Participants will have an opportunity to begin/review a Collection Policy for their organisation.

There will be a limited number of one-on-one sessions (bookable on the day) for additional assistance.

Catering: tea & coffee on arrival and lunch will be provided 

Join Judith Ryan AM, Senior Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Victoria as she discusses the genesis of Indigenous women’s art practice across five central desert communities - Ernabella (Pukatja), Fregon (Kaltjiti), Utopia, Yuendumu and Kintore (Walungurru).

Ryan will highlight the importance of batik practice for women of the desert and enable links to be made between batiks and paintings of Pitjantjatjara, Anmatyerr, Alyawarr, Warlpiri and Pintupi artists.

Balenciaga in detail: lecture series

5pm refreshments, 5.30pm – 6.30pm illustrated lecture

Maggi Eckardt, Balenciaga fashion icon

One of the most sought-after models of the 1960s, Maggi Eckardt modelled for the House of Balenciaga from 1961 to 1965. Maggi will share her stories of meeting the world’s most significant fashion photographers and what it was like to model clothes designed by ‘the master’.