• Motherhood in art | From the Collection

    06 May 22

Overview

    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.

    • In conversation with 2021 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize Winner Kirsty Budge

      23 Dec 21

    Overview

      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.

      • In conversation with contemporary artist Jahnne Pasco-White

        19 Jul 21

      Overview

        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?

        Jahnne Pasco-White, **messmates 1** 2019, various. Courtesy the artist and Daine Singer, Melbourne. Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize Winner 2019

        • Undercurrent: the history beneath the image

          24 Jul 20

        Overview

          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.

          Peta Clancy, **Undercurrent** work in progress image, 2018. Image courtesy of the artist
          Peta Clancy, **Undercurrent** work in progress image, 2018. Image courtesy of the artist
          Peta Clancy, **Undercurrent** 2018-19, inkjet pigment print. Created with support from the Koorie Heritage Trust’s Artist Residency Program 2018, funded by the Australian Government’s Indigenous Languages and Arts Program. Image courtesy of the artist
          Peta Clancy, **Undercurrent** 2018-19, inkjet pigment print. Created with support from the Koorie Heritage Trust’s Artist Residency Program 2018, funded by the Australian Government’s Indigenous Languages and Arts Program. Image courtesy of the artist
          Peta Clancy, **Undercurrent** 2018-19, inkjet pigment print. Created with support from the Koorie Heritage Trust’s Artist Residency Program 2018, funded by the Australian Government’s Indigenous Languages and Arts Program. Image courtesy of the artist
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