Bundanon

21st March 2022

Shoalhaven, NSW: On Saturday 19 March The Hon Paul Fletcher MP, Australian Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts and the Hon Ben Franklin MLC, NSW Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Minister for the Arts, and Minister for Regional Youth will officially open Bundanon’s new world-class Art Museum and Bridge for Creative Learning. Jennifer Bott AO Chairman and Rachel Kent CEO will welcome the many...

22nd February 2022

This event has been cancelled due to significant rainfall in the region.  Artists featured in the festival will be invited to perform at Bundanon throughout the coming year. If you have purchased tickets to the Festival, our team will be in contact with you shortly to issue full refunds. ______ First Peoples-led Impulse Festival to...

20th January 2022

Shoalhaven, NSW: Bundanon will open the doors publicly to its new Art Museum and Bridge for Creative Learning from Saturday 29 January 2022, with an official ceremony and festival of events being held on Saturday 5 March 2022, including live music and performance. Bundanon will deliver three exhibition seasons annually, with a dramatically expanded range...

21st December 2021

Bundanon’s Artist in Residence program supports new work, research and collaborations by artists and researchers from around the world. The program is structured through a series of partnerships with leading arts organisations and companies, cultural agencies and benefactors. Congratulations to the artists who will be in residence at Bundanon in 2022.

13th July 2021

The Chairman of Bundanon Trust’s Board of Directors, Jennifer Bott AO, announced today the appointment of Rachel Kent as the new CEO of Bundanon Trust after a six-month international search and recruitment process. Rachel will commence on 6 September 2021. She will work with current CEO, Deborah Ely AM, on a full handover in the...

10th May 2021

 In its pre-budget statement of 7 May the Australian Government announced additional funding of $7.1M over two years for Bundanon Trust. Bundanon’s CEO Deborah Ely AM and Chair Jennifer Bott AO commented: With these new resources Bundanon will be able to successfully launch its ambitious new art museum and creative learning centre later this year,...

4th May 2021

Now on view in the Homestead gallery, the exhibition Gifted represents important acts of generosity by collectors and artists to the Bundanon Collection over several decades. The selected works sit against the larger backdrop of the gift of Bundanon to the Australian public by the Boyd family and indicate the depth and diversity of the...

19th April 2021

A centre for reflection, creation, and experimentation. Open to applicants from all disciplines and stages of career, the residencies are highly sought after by artists nationally and internationally. Bundanon has new partnerships with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation and the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia, NSW, supporting two new residencies for Australian artists....

4th December 2020

Bundanon’s CEO, Deborah Ely, has this week announced her intention to step down from the role in mid-2021. Her departure will coincide with the physical completion of Bundanon’s ambitious new arts infrastructure, designed to house the $43M Boyd art collection,and set to transform the cultural tourism of the NSW South Coast. Chairman of the Bundanon...

3rd December 2020

We Need To Talk About Fire brings into focus critical issues that the devastation of the catastrophic Black Summer Bushfires brought to the front of the national consciousness and international media: climate change, fire management and practices, and the role of fire in regeneration.

23rd November 2020

An extraordinary series of four films directed and produced by celebrated filmmaker Bridget Ikin, presented by proud Quandamooka man Wesley Enoch AM, writer and the current director of Sydney Festival.

5th November 2020

Bundanon Trust and the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers House Trust are excited to announce the three Australian composers awarded the Prelude residencies for 2021: Aviva Endean, Matt Laing, and Dr Yitzak Yedid.  Prelude is a national network of long-term residencies for Australian composers, housed in historic buildings and providing time and space for the creation of new work. For 2021 the three historic houses are located in Perth WA, Angaston SA, and Sydney NSW.  Prelude is based on the sentiment expressed by Peggy Glanville-Hicks in 1958 that,...