Arranging by chance - Abbra Kotlarczyk & Briony Galligan Arranging by chance is a collaborative exhibition that builds on the artists’ research into family trees, queerness, toxicity and healing.
Corinna Berndt - jpg Fossils jpg Fossils is a science-fiction inspired video installation by Corinna Berndt. The artwork poetically connects fragments from her digital archive.
Pia de Bruyn - Female Trouble Taking its title from John Waters’ cult classic, Female Trouble explores archetypal femininity through the lens of cinema.
Rest time Rest time is a group exhibition curated by Laura Couttie that offers space for slowing down.
A1 Darebin Art Salon 2025 A major community art prize and exhibition allowing local artists and crafters at any stage in their career to exhibit in a public art gallery.
Amala Groom - Does she know the Revolution is coming? A new acquisition to the Darebin Art Collection- multi-channel video artwork by conceptual Wiradyuri artist Amala Groom.
Ara Dolatian - At The First Flood of Daylight A new ceramics exhibition by Ara Dolatian that examines the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh.
Hootan Heydari - Remembering to Forget A new exhibition by Hootan Heydari, examining history, place and memory.
Jaren | جڑیں | Roots | جذور A collaborative exhibition presented across three venues in Darebin: the Islamic Museum of Australia, La Trobe University and Bundoora Homestead Art Centre.
Selling Sunset An exhibition of works by Natalie Thomas and Erica McGilchrist, exploring the legacy of a powerful artist.
Sammaneh Pourshafighi - You, Me and Everything Around Us A collection of works that navigates the artist’s autobiographical and familial relationships, tracing the shifting boundaries between family, environment, memory, and self.
Taking Back Language How do artists subvert and reclaim language? Find out in this new exhibition of works that utlilise text in both humourous and powerful ways.
Andy Villanueva - Transitory Story A spanning linocut exhibition by Chilean-born, Melbourne-based artist Andy Villanueva.
Darebin Art Prize 2024 The Darebin Art Prize is a national multi-medium acquisitive art prize celebrating excellence in contemporary visual art.
Grace Wood - Permanent Palimpsest A solo exhibition exploring the rich history of Bundoora Homestead and parklands.
Logan Mucha - A Beat to Hold Back the Dawn Logan Mucha. "A Beat to Hold Back the Dawn" is an interactive video and sound exhibition. Using cutting-edge technology, this immersive exhibition recreates Melbourne's past and present queer nightclubs into a single utopia.
New works from the Darebin Art Collection Check out the latest additions to the Darebin Art Collection at Bundoora Homestead.
Poorneet Tadpole Season in the Darebin Art Collection Exhibition presented at Ganbu Gulin as part of FUSE Festival 2024
A Fragile Beauty Curated by Michaela Bear. "A Fragile Beauty" celebrates the strange and vulnerable existence of being in a human body – an experience that is distinctly individual, yet also part of a shared corporeal reality.
A1 Darebin Art Salon 2023 Featuring over 150 artists who live, work, study or base their creative practice in the City of Darebin.
Outline Imager "Outline Imager" presents a new body of work by artist Elyss McCleary, exploring forms and gestures that respond to the interior and exterior environments of Bundoora Homestead Art Centre.
Transition between States 切换于境界间 Jack Lee. Speculating on the intersection between race, religion, gender, and sexuality, this new series of multi-disciplinary works emerge from an inquiry into the concept of ‘in between’ of cultures, places and identities.
The Witch Lays Her Eggs in Terrible Clumps Katy B Plummer. This video installation project digs into ancestral whiteness, unravelling the spiritual and political implications of the artist’s (North American) settler colonist heritage.
The Sun’s Kiss begins to Sting Lina Buck. "The Sun’s Kiss begins to Sting" examines social connectivity as a central theme within contemporary life.
Of Earth And Ether Flowers Never Bend Louise Meuwissen. "Of Earth and Ether (Flowers never bend)" aims to make manifest elements of the ineffable.
Nimbostratus Nimbostratus is a multidisciplinary group exhibition presented by Arts Access Victoria's Nimbus studio. Nimbus is a creative collective working from Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. For many years, they’ve been developing their practices in a range of different media, including drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture, video and even AI.
Sculptures and Ceramics From the Darebin Art Collection The Darebin Art Collection is a resource that inspires, informs and engages. We hope to connect the community through an appreciation of the visual arts and local heritage. Here, you find a selection of objects from our diverse collection. Artists include Lynda Draper, Vipoo Srivilasa, Natalie Thomas, David Ray and a selection of Remued pottery that was made at Preston’s now defunct Premier Potter
Us Mob Celebrating Victorian Koori Elders, curated by Sharon West, Dr. Lyndon Ormond Parker and Simon Rose.
Solace Selwyn Hoffmann explores original ideas and fascinations through multiple media, primarily sculpture. A member of the Australia Deaf community and fluent in Auslan, Selwyn became artistically re-motivated after settling in Collingwood. This rich, artistic environment inspired him to incorporate his lived experience, as well as ideas around Australian Deaf history, into his art.
Alone but So at Home "Alone, but so at home" presents a series of abstract paintings by Lotte Frances. Exploring the complexities of queerness, loneliness and memory, this body of work showcases the artists unique visual language that is at once playful, vulnerable and intimate. Lotte employs vivid colour and experimental mark-making to transcribe their experience, bringing together the music they were listening to.
Faint Echoes Pia Johnson is known for her distinctive portraiture and performance photography. For a this exhibition the artist turns to the self as subject matter, employing self-portraiture to examine transcultural identity, place, memory and belonging. Pia’s line of inquiry centres on the histories of representation of the Eurasian female body in domestic settings.
Made/Worn Australian Comtemporary Jewellery From intimate pieces to large scale works, the contemporary jewellery in Made / Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery explores the act of making and how jewellery is worn on the body, telling stories that start with the artist and continue through the life of the object worn or experienced, creating new resonances with owners into the future.
PLACE A sense of place is something that we need and create—as we move through place, we make memories. What does ‘place’ mean to migrants and refugees in the current geopolitical climate? Place is a new exhibition of works by artists Sha Sarwari, Avan Anwar and Elyas Alavi, whose lived experiences as migrants and refugees filters through a selection of works across painting, sculpture and mixed media.
Tiny Wonders Tiny Wonders presents a series of ceramic works by Melbourne based artist Narelle White offering moments of material delight. Made from Den Haag beach sands embedded in porcelain and hand-pressed into emergent, organic forms that populate a lively imaginary landscape imbued with the mineral properties of their origins.
Simultaneous Light Emma Hamilton Over 12 months, Melbourne artist Emma Hamilton flew four flags in the Bundoora Homestead grounds to mark the changing of the seasons. Simultaneous Light seeks to make visible seasonal changes in weather and lighting, through a series of cyanotype flags, to mark the summer and winter solstices and the spring and autumn equinox.
Mapping the Curious Heart Mapping the curious heart presents key works from the Darebin Art Collection alongside new acquisitions. Bringing together the work of eight First Nations women with strong culturally led practices, we provided a space for discussion around Australia as a colonised nation with an Aboriginal past, present and future.
4am Flaming Arrows 4am flaming arrows collates the work of Alexandra Nemarič, Anita Cummins, Lara Chamas, Jess Tan, Jordan Sibley, Katherine Botten, Matilda Davis, Nunzie Madden, Sarah Brasier, and William Hawkins. In dialogue with the transient state and emotions associated with waking up at 4am a discussion is presented of works as fascinating as they are terrifying, and as unsettling as they are beautiful.
Assemblage Uniting the personal and professional practice of technicians, installers and art-handlers, Assemblage brings together the work of Bryce Demont, Carly Fischer, Mark Galea, Jordan Marani, John Sheehan and Zamara Zamara alongside their personal pick of work/s from the collection. Inviting our technicians to speak to, represent and reengage with the rich, and at times idiosyncratic art.
Cleave EO Gill. Cleave is accompanied by a commissioned text by artist, curator and writer Frances Barrett. Cleave, meaning both to split or sever and to stick to, presents two slippery figures in a domestic setting who perform the same scenes over and again, with changes in emphasis, intonation and camera placement. It uses the formal and aesthetic properties of amateur pornography and erotic narrative.
Collider Collider is a site-responsive work by Jon Butt that investigates the physical and conceptual notions of landscape as matter and phenomena. Using video sequences, this work places the Bundoora Homestead site within a shifting scale of material territories, molecular energies, and entropic disorder.
Darebin Art Prize 2021 The exhibition celebrates contemporary artworks across all media, from painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and craft, through to video art.
First Door on the Right First Door on the Right is an installation of recent work by Julie Vinci, combing found domestic objects and sculpture developed from a year-long project that continues investigations into the societal role’s women have played in the past, the present and into the future.
Li Shannon Lyons' installation pays homage to the care giving environment that once existed for patients at the hospital and makes reference to ‘the shed’ - a kitchen located in an unused ward. The ward became the locus for resident psychiatrist Dr. John Cade’s important research and early experiments with lithium salts in the 1940s.
May All Acts of Love and Pleasure Be My Rituals Ophelia Bakowski's "May All Acts Of Love And Pleasure Be My Rituals" explores Nature as a conduit (channelling) for the facilitation of transcendent states. Invoking forms of magick, rituals of healing are performed for a queer body.
Morphosis In Morphosis, seven artists explore animism and the ancient wisdom of the human/animal and other hybrid forms, drawing varied significance and presenting a multiplicity of perspectives. Artists include: Jeremy Blincoe, Peter Ellis, Monica Lim, Fika Ria Santika, Abdi Setiawan, Laksmi Shitaresmi, Samantha Sommariva. Curated by Julian Goddard.
Restless There are places in which the body finds rest, yet these places also play host to periods of immense unrest. Artist Nick James Archer explores how a pillow can be a place of calm, yet also a place of isolation, torment and sleepless nights. Accompanied by a commissioned text by researcher and artist Violet Aisling MacDonald.
The Multiverse In the multiverse, all possibilities exist. Artists often ask us to reimagine the world we know into different possibilities; some dark, some utopian, some absurd, some just a small step sideways. Xanthe Dobbie, IMMI,Bhenji Ra as part of Club Ate with Justin Shoulder, Diego Ramirez, Kaylene Whiskey. Curated by Charlotte Christie | Digital Space designed by Alexandra Margetic.
Through the Hand to the Mouth Through the hand to the mouth explores the gesture of lighting a cigarette as a recurrent and coded motif occurring in gay cinema since 1950. Presented in the atmospheric Old Billiards Room at Bundoora Homestead, this series of largescale prints continues artist Jeremy Eaton’s inquiry into undisclosed homosocial histories, evoking the sensuality of these discrete exchanges.
Under the Clearest Blue Sky Uncle Brian Birch is a member of the Victorian Aboriginal community. His forebears were originally from Tasmania and Barbados. Under the clearest blue sky is a survey of Uncle Brian’s vibrant and lively paintings. Bringing together works from personal and institutional collections, this intimate body of work examines Uncle Brian’s connection to Country, family and tradition.
Violent Salt The works presented in Violent Salt reflect on a social, physical and geographical landscape that has been witness to violence and oppression. It questions how we can repair deep wounds, re-connect across culture and assert and celebrate cultural identities meaningfully and transformatively.. Curated by Yhonnie Scarce and Claire Watson.
A1 Darebin Art Salon 2020 Our online celebration featured a special Welcome to Country Ceremony by Aunty Georgina Nicholson, prize announcements and a performance by Wergaia/Wemba Wemba singer-songwriter Alice Skye. The A1 Darebin Art Salon 2020 is a celebration of art, creativity and expression from artists who live, work or study in the City of Darebin.
Beneath Our Feet The Grounds Of Bundoora "Beneath our feet: The grounds of Bundoora" explores the history of the site now known as Bundoora Park. Featuring plans, photographs, botanical information, Aboriginal cultural artefacts and artworks, the exhibition highlights the cultural significance of the grounds and the use of the gardens by the Smith Family and the veterans who called Bundoora home.
Larundel George Mifsud. Larundel is a series of photographs captured between 2001 to 2005 at the site of the former Larundel Psychiatric Hospital located adjacent to Bundoora Park.
Mind Fields Adam Knapper. Knapper is a founding member of the Nimbus studio, an Arts Access collaboration based at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre.
This could work! I'm scared HannaTai. "This could work!!/I’m Scared" explores everyday experiences, thoughts and observations in relation to the unfamiliar unknowability of the climate crisis.
Gunditjmara Country Aunty Frances Gallagher. Aunty Frances is a respected Elder who was born in Bendigo in 1926 and is proudly from the Gunditjmara people of Western Victoria. Within her landscape depictions of her Gunditjmara tribal lands, and ancestral memories, Aunty Frances contemplates the significance of place, family connection, spirituality and social displacement.
Colour and Fantasy The exhibition focuses on three key figures from this period; The Ferry brothers, William and Graham, and Richard Sturrock. This trio’s loose collaboration produced exceptional wares from 1896 to 1910 of a type never before seen in Australia. They are considered early pioneers of our studio pottery movement and went on to illuminate and inspire their successors.
Dapper This exhibition features artists who have played with, constructed and considered the threads we wear and how style can both define and expose us. This exhibition connects to our queer histories, gender fluidity and acknowledges the defiantly dapper. The featured artists are: Ray Cook, Lin Tobias, Peter Waples-Crowe, The Butch Project - Meg Allen, UB Topia & Anj Hans. Curated by Angela Bailey.
Darebin Art Prize 2019 The exhibition celebrates contemporary artworks across all media, from painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and craft, through to video art.
Healing Practices Exploring the relationship between past trauma and the body, representation and memorialisation, the exhibition presents newly commissioned works by Duha Ali, Zaiba Khan, Stanislava Pinchuk, Katie West and Justine Youssef. Curated by Rachel Ciesla.
Midsumma Artist in Residence Sean Miles (Ngāti Raukawa) is a cute queer trickster artist and performer living and doing their mahi as an uninvited guest in unceded Kulin nation territory. Their multi-disciplinary art practice spans across performance, photography, video, sculpture and installation.
Prima Materia The exhibition invites a comparison between the creation and destruction dichotomies of the alchemical pursuit, and contemporary art practice. The artists are Julie Gough, Alicia King, Linda Persson (SWE), Andre Piguet, Michael GF Prior, Yhonnie Scarce, Vittoria Di Stefano and Zilverster (Goodwin and Hanenbergh). Curated by Emily Jones.
Those Monuments Dont Know Us Those Monuments Don’t Know Us considers the ways this history has a habit of coming back around, and unpacks the whiteness that still lays at the heart Australia’s national imagination. Khadim Ali, Timmah Ball, Hayley Millar-Baker, Phuong Ngo, James Nguyen, Nabilah Nordin, Diego Ramirez, Priya Srinivasan, TextaQueen and Siying Zhou. Curated by Andy Butler.
Verge The artists explore their connection to the skills and concepts of the discipline. Each maker is connected to the Contemporary Jewellery and Object field in Melbourne, and takes their practice beyond the walls of the studio. Roseanne Bartley, Anna Gray, Tiffany Parbs, Public Assembly (Lynda Roberts & Ceri Hann) & Renée Ugazio. Curated by Claire McArdle
Victorian Quilters One Step Further This prestigious biennial exhibition is organised by Victorian Quilters Inc. who recognise that many textile artists are interested in experimentation, improvisation and abstraction to create unique and thought-provoking work.
Richard Harding Harding’s exhibition was inspired by an SBS News broadcast in the lead up to the 2018 Gay Pride March in Melbourne, and the 40th Anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Juxtaposing images of celebration with archive footage of targeted attacks on people of difference, Pinkwashing examines the unique challenges that still confront LGBTIQ people.
A1 I Darebin Art Salon 2018 A community exhibition. Artist Shannon Lyons Wins A1 Darebin Art Salon Artist Shannon Lyons has been announced as the winner of the A1 Darebin Art Salon. Lyons, who lives and works in Darebin, was announced as the first prize winner out of an impressive 136 entries.
CRAFT LAB+ Craft Lab+ encompassed a range of projects, exhibitions, and workshops that celebrated the work of local crafters and provided a space for creators of all things handmade. Crafters droppd into Bundoora Homestead during public hours to work on their piece in the company of others.
Crocodility Guest Curator Boe-Lin Bastian. The Guest Curator of the exhibition Boe-Lin Bastian says: “We often think of paradox as a literary device, but it can be very important within the visual arts as well."
Artist in residence John Brooks. Making intuitively, he allows the potential of the materials to inform part of the process while also potentially projecting thoughts and ideas onto non-human entities.
Lucky? In a new exhibition titled ‘Lucky?’, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre’s Senior Curator Claire Watson, together with guest co-curator Sophia Cai, explore the history and effects of gold-mining and the pursuit of wealth in Australia through a contemporary lens.
Rozalind Drummond The exhibition ‘Process blue, nature trips, corduroy, pine shelving’ brings digital photography, film and found imagery, including film stills, magazines and books from an array of mined sources.
The Family Mantle Curated by Pia Johnson. Exhibiting artists include Sofi Basseghi, Katayoun Javan, Janelle Low, Morganna Magee, Andy Mullens, Talia Smith and Pia Johnson. Bringing together new work by seven female artists, The Family Mantle presents a series of photographic responses to ideas about the nature and role of the family unit.
The Story Of Bundoora Homestead The Story of Bundoora Homestead chronicles some of the remarkable personal stories behind this significant site. Through this exhibition, explore the rich history of Bundoora Homestead from its commissioning by the Smith family and subsequent use as a Repatriation Hospital, through to its current use as an art gallery and home of the Darebin Art Collection.
Accession Darebin Art Collection. "Accession" presents recent acquisitions from the Darebin Art Collection. The exhibition is representative of a cross-section of Australian contemporary art practices including video, ceramics, painting, photography, glass and craft. Including several new commissions specific to the Darebin municipality. It will be the first time many of these significant works.
Angela Tiatia Angela Tiatia’s 'Holding On' captures a struggle between the body ofthe artist and the body of the ocean as the tide gradually comes in. The artist lies on a concrete slab which stretches out into the ocean; a man-made island. Underestimating the ferocity and strength of the incoming waves, she struggles to maintain her grasp on the island.
I, of the Needle Betty Musgrove. Betty Musgrove’s multi-media practice encompasses contemporary digital modes of textile production and traditional techniques - embroidery, tapestry, cross-stitch and applique.
All Our Secrets Are the Same Charlotte Watson. All Our Secrets Are the Same is a new sculptural installation by Charlotte Watson. Informed by psychoanalysis and the gothic sublime, All Our Secrets are the Same condenses the space in which relationships are made or lost, and considers how personal histories are transferred between generations.
We Curator Renee Cosgrave. "We" explores emerging contemporary artists with studios in the Darebin municipality. We explores emerging contemporary artists with studios in the Darebin municipality. These artists have diverse practices that critically engage with installation, site, sound, video, performance, text, photography, painting and sculpture.
Nimbus Artist Studio 2017 Nebula Residency artists are: Fayen d’Evie & Joseph O’Farrell (JOF); Elana Grunberg & Hannah Raisin; Claire Mooney & Amani Tia; Patrick Francis & Sandra Long
Darebin Art Prize 2017 Bundoora Homestead Art Centre is proud to announce that the winner of the 2017 Darebin Art Prize is Claire Lambe.
Group Formalism Curator Jeremy Gales. Bundoora Homestead Art Centre in collaboration with guest curator Jeremy Gales is proud to present an exhibition exploring the contemporary aspects of the abstract genre of Formalism.
My Mirring Hayley Millar-Baker is a Gunditjmara artist from Melbourne, Victoria. Her practice is influenced and informed by her Koorie heritage, existing in a contemporary urban culture. Her connection to culture is inherent to her contemporary practice that explores themes of displacement, alienation, suppression, and social confinement. She utilises photography, painting and installations.
Salon of Spirits Salon of Spirits is a collection-based show, demonstrating the prolific nature of those creative provocateurs in Melbourne's arts scene - those who transform and enliven the local cultural landscape. Through transference, the objects they surround themselves with form an abstracted portrait of each identity, manifesting in a surrealistic assemblage within the iconic Bundoora Homestead.