Renowned feminist photographer Ponch Hawkes undertook the Bendigo residency in autumn 2023 at the La Trobe Art Institute.
‘WIP-for-emotional-language-of-drought-2023-24’ by Ponch Hawkes Read More »
1 June 2024. In an article in Garland Magazine, Jacqueline Millner reveals what artist residencies can tell us about the lived culture of drought. The full article can be read at the following link: https://garlandmag.com/article/parched/ (Image: Ponch Hawkes, WIP for Emotional Language of Drought 2023-24)
Julie Millowick is a Photographer and Lecturer with a commitment to documenting people and environmental conditions in her own regions of Central Victoria. In 2007 as Vice President of MAP (Many Australian Photographers), Julie helped co-ordinate 37 photographers across Australia to produce the exhibition and book Beyond Reasonable Drought. This image displays water recycling methods during
‘Catching Water for Recycling: Shower, 2008’ by Julie Millowick Read More »
Julie Millowick is a Photographer and Lecturer with a commitment to documenting people and environmental conditions in her own regions of Central Victoria. In 2007 as Vice President of MAP (Many Australian Photographers), Julie helped co-ordinate 37 photographers across Australia to produce the exhibition and book Beyond Reasonable Drought. In this image, Boyd Thornbury displays his
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Julie Millowick is a Photographer and Lecturer with a commitment to documenting people and environmental conditions in her own regions of Central Victoria. In 2007 as Vice President of MAP (Many Australian Photographers), Julie helped co-ordinate 37 photographers across Australia to produce the exhibition and book Beyond Reasonable Drought. In the above image, Julie and her
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Jesse Boylan is an artist living on Djaara country in Central Victoria, Australia, interested in expanded documentary practice and the role art plays in environmental and social justice issues. In November 2023, they spent three weeks in the Murray region as part of Parched: Cultures of Drought – a research project exploring how people and communities
Where there is wind (there will be dust), a video-essay poem by Jesse Boylan Read More »
Next on the List draws from Alvin’s cultural understanding of climate shift and the impacts of changing land use. It proposes a contemporary and evolving perspective on humans as a species now threatened in our present and future climate change context. Specifically, Alvin brings together elements created in timber and uses pyrography to speak to
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One of Yorta Yorta artist Lin Onus’ best known works is Barmah Forest (1994), an eerily serene scene of Biyala (river red gums) immersed and reflected in water, not unlike the later Floodwater ‘Wooroong Nucko’ (1995) that explicitly represents the Dungala (Murray River) in flood. In Barmah Forest, what might at first appear a realist
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Still Life: The Food Bowl (2011) by Ken and Julia Yonetani forms part of the Mildura Art Centre’s (MAC) collection of contemporary art. It is a sculptural installation featuring a life-size produce-laden table. The work emerged from a three-month residency the artists undertook in Mildura in 2010 as part of the arts festival Palimpsest, sponsored
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Drought as a Femme Fatale or mischievous nymph: Story: At the time of the short sharp Centennial drought (1888) and the beginning of the Federation drought (1895), two of Australia’s leading painters who had made their name interpreting the local landscape through the benign language of Impressionism drew instead on the far darker Symbolism in
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