Bundanon

Visual artist Bronte Leighton-Dore graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from the National Art School in Sydney in 2018.

Highly Commended in the 2019 Paddington Art Prize, she was a finalist in the Wynne Art Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW the same year. Bronte had her first international showing at Cromwell Place in London in 2023 and was awarded the Waverley Art Prize in 2024.

Luke M de Zilva is an experimental songwriter and composer, curator and broadcaster.

Luke has performed and presented work throughout Australia and overseas, including at Dark Mofo, Volume festival at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Festival, NTS Radio and the University of Technology, Sydney. As a presenter for fbi.radio, Luke has interviewed artists including Sarah Davachi, Mount Eerie, Angus Andrews (Liars), Jim White (Dirty Three) and Shoeb Ahmad.

In Residence at Bundanon

Visual artist Bronte Leighton-Dore and musician Luke M de Zilva will begin a cross-artform collaboration that aims to capture the uniqueness of the Australian landscape whilst contemplating its role in our cultural, social and environmental future. Connecting with the landscape is central to Bronte’s work, as is the communicating of one’s own story through sharing and responding to imagery and sound gathered from place. In parallel, Luke will explore his ongoing interest in building subtly all-consuming music using ‘natural’ instruments and tools, whilst capturing the real-world sounds of Bundanon before transposing them into musical notation to accompany Bronte’s work.