Field Notes

On the 6th of January 2020, the skies in Aotearoa/New Zealand glowed an eerie orange. I was flying at the time and became fully immersed in this hazy atmosphere. Looking out of the window, the ground, horizon, and sun had disappeared; instead, my vision was suspended in a golden, smoke infused hazy light. Compelled by...

It’s now several months since my return home from Bundanon, and it feels like a dream. The time there felt thick, and fast and slow. I am still processing the experience and am sure to be for a long time. It was a rare kind of time: without any expectation from outside myself. I could...

While in residence at Bundanon I developed my project exploring the interspecies ‘companionship’ between animals and minerals, and more specifically the animal-calcium ‘kinship’ that has led to the evolution of bones. I spent time studying animal bones on-site at Bundanon, especially wombat and kangaroo bones, marsupials who are resident in magnificent abundance. I am using...

I was very inspired by the collection tour with Jen [Jennifer Thompson, Collections Manager], especially Doris and merric’s pottery, a lot of drawings of pots and jugs grew from that and the walk around the homestead collection. I spent a long time walking each day in the bush and thought a lot about the narratives...

I have spent my time in Bundanon looking for and collecting patterns. Patterns of trees, potholes, leaves and grass. Patterns of light and shadow. The movement of kangaroos and birds. Walking patterns, painting patterns, thinking patterns, working patterns. Collecting shapes, Polaroids, post its, words, colours. I have been collecting as a mode of being here,...

Overview The Tellus Art Project 2022 is a collaboration under development between UNSW Art and Design, the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium, Bundanon and Open Humanities Press. It is the result of an Australian Research Council grant and aims to re-value the plant collection of the Herbarium through the mediation of art. It addresses the...

Is a short film about the making of The Hidden a multi channel film and sound environment installation. The Hidden is a new Bundanon commission by celebrated Australian filmmaker and artist Tim Georgeson and leading composer, performer and proud Kalkadunga man, William Barton. It offers a personal account of the Bundanon land and waterscapes through...

2022 Bundanon Writers Week Poetry Commission Late August Tercets Peter Ramm   READ ➜

2022 Bundanon Writers Week Poetry Commission The River and the Sea Reflections by Gabrielle Journey Jones

2022 Bundanon Writers Week Poetry Commission Kurraarr Far Country 1972 Julie Janson

2022 Bundanon Writers Week Poetry Commission e a t Isabella Luna READ ➜

“I came to Bundanon starving and dying of thirst, and it left me quenched and full.” That would have been a familiar metaphor. The truth seems somehow smaller, though the arc remains the same. I came to Bundanon weary. Perhaps as weary as I’d even been, outside of deepest grief. A nuggetty essence of exhausted...