Join us for a lunch and long discussion exploring the trailblazing art practice of performance artist Bonita Ely.
In conversation with Sophie O’Brien (Head of Curatorial and Learning, Bundanon) Bonita will share stories from her feminist and environmentally charged practice, over a delicious meal prepared by Bundanon’s Executive Chef Douglas Innes-Will.
Bonita Ely
Since the 1970s, Bonita Ely’s practice has examined environmental, feminist and sociopolitical issues through diverse media including performance, photography and installation.
Her performances explore tensions between humans, other species and the natural environment, with works of the late 1970s and early 1980s tackling the cultural clashes surrounding Aboriginal land rights, as enacted in Jabiluka UO2 (1979); or feminism, as depicted in Breadline (1980), Dogwoman Communicates with the Younger Generation (1982) and A Mother Shows Her Daughter to the Universe (1982).
Wilder Times
Wilder Times sees the return of a series of Shoalhaven landscape paintings by Arthur Boyd to Bundanon for the first time since their creation in 1984 as a commission for the new Arts Centre Melbourne.
The exhibition also brings together over 60 works by seminal Australian artists from the same time Boyd created this momentous body of work. The exhibition provides a window into a period of cultural dynamism in Australia, when ideas of landscape, land ownership and environmental protection were actively interrogated.
