Opening Weekend

Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 July 2026

Bringing together two leading Australian artists across generations, Man on Fire: Visions of Nebuchadnezzar (4 July – 11 October) explores a story of hubris and undoing. Illuminating the enduring questions of power, exile and human frailty, Boyd and Gladwell wrestle with ideas of masculinity, reckoning and renewal.

We look forward to welcoming you for our opening weekend with free entry to the Art Museum, artist talks and new live performances by artists Shaun Gladwell and Roslyn Orlando.

OPENING WEEKEND PROGRAM

SATURDAY 4 JULY

11am | Smoking Ceremony
Presented by Gadhungal Marring

11.30am | Welcome To Country & Opening Address
Presented by Uncle Gerry Moore and Bundanon CEO Rachel Kent
Auslan interpreted

12pm | Talk: On Shaun Gladwell with Blair French
Discover Shaun Gladwell’s expansive video and performance practice with Blair French, CEO at Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA)
Auslan interpreted

1pm | Live Performance: Shaun Gladwell
A new live performance by artist Shaun Gladwell in Bundanon’s Art Museum

1.45pm | Live Performance: Progesterone Dreams with Roslyn Orlando
A new commission and vocal performance, conjuring a dream of creation through conscious effort

2.30pm | In Conversation: Shaun Gladwell & Sophie O’Brien
Hear about the making of Shaun Gladwell’s new commission for Bundanon with exhibition curator Sophie O’Brien
Auslan interpreted

3–5.30pm | Live Music: Russ W Duo
Immersive ambient live music from brother duo, Russell and Al Webster (Shining Bird, Tropical Strength), evoking South Coast landscapes

ALL DAY
10am–5pm | Art Museum open
10am–5.30pm | Ramox Café open

SUNDAY 5 JULY

10am–12pm | Bundanon Blak: Workshop with Janet Fieldhouse
Meet Kalaw Lagaw Ya and Meriam Mir artist Janet Fieldhouse and create a small ceramic artwork to take home
Free event with limited capacity. Booking required

11am–2pm | Live Music: Huon Fox & William Kiss
Live music from jazz guitarist and bass duo Huon Fox & William Kiss at Ramox Café

ALL DAY
10am–4pm | Art Museum open
10am–3pm | Ramox Café open

Tickets

Free event

Dates & Times

4 July 2026

10am–5.30pm

5 July 2026

10am–4pm

Location

Bundanon Art Museum
170 Riversdale Road
Illaroo NSW 2540

Book

Featuring

Shaun Gladwell

Over a career spanning more than two decades, Gladwell is best known for striking moving image works that explore the politics and poetics of human movement, often using the constraints of physical challenge and endurance to reflect the relationship between the body and its environment.

Roslyn Orlando

Roslyn Orlando is an artist, writer and gardener based in Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country. Her writing and artistic works explore relationships between language, botany, history and technology. She studied journalism at the University of Sydney, and Arts Politics at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Her poetry book Ekhō was released in Australia through Upswell in 2024 and in the USA by Soft Skull Press in 2025.

Blair French

Blair French is the CEO of MAMA. He was previously CEO, Carriageworks; Director, Curatorial and Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) and Executive Director, Artspace Visual Arts Centre. He has curated numerous exhibitions in Australia and abroad including Shaun Gladwell: Pacific Undertow (2019, co-curator) and The National 2017: New Australian Art at the MCA as well as the 2011 and 2013 editions of the SCAPE Public Art: Christchurch Biennial. He has published extensively on contemporary art, performance and photography.

Janet Fieldhouse

Janet Fieldhouse is a Meriam Mer (Torres Strait) ceramic artist based in Cairns, Queensland. Her hand-built forms acknowledge Torres Strait traditions of navigation, living from the sea and the land, and women’s practices such as weaving body adornments for ceremony and scarification. Bringing together new and existing works, Fieldhouse’s work will focus on the bird life of the Shoalhaven region.