Overview
This electronic publication accompanies the exhibition Celebrating 150 years: rail in Bendigo and the Bendigo Brass Band.
This electronic publication accompanies the exhibition Celebrating 150 years: rail in Bendigo and the Bendigo Brass Band.
This electronic publication accompanies the exhibition Mapping great change: the landscape of central Victoria.
This electronic publication accompanies the exhibition A cure for all ills: medicine in Bendigo.
This electronic publication accompanies the exhibition Theatrical traditions: stage and screen in Bendigo.
This electronic publication accompanies the exhibition Menagerie: animals in Bendigo history.
The archetypal ‘Madonna and Child’ is perhaps the most iconic vision of the tender bond between mother and child embodying the sacrifice and heartache characteristic of the role. In the Western Art canon, Mary, the hallowed Mother of God, is joined by a cast of mother figures leveraged for the symbolic power of their maternal virtues. In the 18th and 19th century Britannia, represented as a warrior goddess, she became a personified emblem of British national identity.
Bendigo Art Gallery Curator Clare Needham in conversation with New Zealand born, Naarm/Melbourne based contemporary artist Kirsty Budge - winner of the 2021 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize.
Bendigo Art Gallery Curator, Clare Needham in conversation with contemporary artist Jahnne Pasco-White the 2019 winner of Bendigo Art Gallery’s prestigious Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize.
Clare: Your winning work messmates 1, is fleshy and visceral. Can you talk a bit about the relationship of this work and the title messmates to the body?
In 2018, Bangerang artist Peta Clancy was awarded a Fostering Koorie Art and Culture Residency Program grant from the Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne, to research massacre sites on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central and Northern Victoria. Working closely with Traditional Owners, Clancy spent a year visiting and documenting an unmarked site submerged underwater, learning the land and it’s hidden stories to create the expansive and compelling photographic series Undercurrent.
Welcome
The City of Greater Bendigo acknowledges the Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung Peoples as the traditional custodians of the lands across Bendigo. We acknowledge and pay respect to their Elders past present and emerging.