Bundanon celebrated the work of two leading Australian artists through two exhibitions.
Offering different perspectives on contemporary practice, these exhibitions encompassed significant bodies of work made over many years, and new commissions created especially for Bundanon – reflecting Arthur Boyd’s vision for Bundanon as a ‘working arts centre’ and a place for creativity and connection, for all people.
The Shape of Music brought together four bodies of work by David Sequeira in diverse media, including a major new commission for Bundanon. Sequeira’s creative practice reflects a longstanding interest in colour, geometry and sound. Ideas of presence, endlessness and contemplation inform his delicate paintings on music manuscript sheets – their overlain geometric forms creating chords of intense colour.
His new commission, ‘Form from the Formless (Under Bundanon Stars)’ (2025), comprised 30 music stands, each bearing manuscript sheets with hand-painted imagery of the glittering Bundanon night sky, alongside his signature geometric forms, and a soundscape.
Two earlier works highlighted Sequeira’s exploration of colour intensity and tonal variation in print-media and glass, working with the Australia Print Workshop, Melbourne and the Glass Studio Jam Factory. Sequeira’s unique-state prints considered the vitality of colour, advancing and receding before the viewer’s eye. His vast accumulations of transparent glass vessels present colour and form as constantly changing yet connected, suggestive of the slow unfolding of time.
Dates & Times
28 June — 5 October 2025
Location
Bundanon Art Museum
170 Riversdale Road
Illaroo NSW 2540
ACCESS
David Sequeira The Shape of Music is an accessible exhibition with several resources available below and at the Art Museum Reception. Visitors are advised that this season is a 90% visual exhibition, predominantly featuring painting, installation, video and soundscape.
SENSORY MAP
The sensory map for David Sequeira The Shape of Music and Betty Kuntiwa Pumani maḻatja-maḻatja (those who come after) includes information specifically on the Art Museum and current exhibition, noise and lighting levels and other information relevant to sensory processing. Please contact the museum staff if you have any questions about the exhibition or Bundanon Relaxed dates for sensory-friendly visits to the exhibition.
SEATING
There is a small amount of seating in the exhibition. Individual seating is also available from museum reception, please speak with the friendly staff if you would like extra seating to experience the show.
There is also a wheelchair available to borrow from the museum reception.
LARGE PRINT
Large print versions of the exhibition text are available to borrow from museum reception.
Audio Descriptions
A selection of audio descriptions are available below for rooms and works in the exhibition. For support in accessing the descriptions below, please speak to the gallery reception staff.
Audio descriptions are listed by room, clockwise.
Gallery Two
David Sequeira, Form from the Formless, 2023.
David Sequeira, Reach out and Touch.
David Sequeira, Fugue, 2018.
Foyer
Arthur Boyd, St Francis with Potter Holding a Butterfly.
maḻatja-maḻatja: those who come after
Bundanon celebrated the work of two leading Australian artists through two exhibitions, David Sequeira The Shape of Music and Betty Kuntiwa Pumani maḻatja-maḻatja.
