In 2023, Bendigo Art Gallery will open an ambitious gallery, Australiana: designing a nation. It’s an epic quest with over 200 items on display, ranging from drawings and paintings to photographs, fashion and design.
Including works by Vincent Nammatjira, Ken Donne, Jenny Key, Kenny Pittock, Tom Roberts, Tony Albert, Sidney Nolan, Hilda Rex Nicholas, Renee Ellis and the romantic fashion label Born, the exhibition aims to survey the ideas of what our national identity is through art and design. ‘ says curator Emma Bosowski.
Gallery director Jessica Bridgefoot and curator Emma Busocki in front of the Shring the Rams mansion, part of the exhibition Australiana: Designing a Nation.attributed to him:Luis Enrique Asqui
“He has a bit of a sense of humor about it, but it also highlights the intricacies of what it means to be Australian,” says show director Jessica Bridgefoot.
What defines Australian design – and through identity – is constantly changing and difficult to establish. This is part of what the exhibition aims to show. Looking at over 200 years of art, it is a series of time capsules, showing what artists and people consider to be creative; What intrigued them and how they saw themselves.
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One of the main works on display is cut rams by Tom Roberts. When Roberts painted it, he “set out a lot to create that patriotic picture of what was going to speak to an Australian identity,” Bosovsky says. “But one of the most interesting things I think of about that picture is that it wasn’t even in a public collection until after his death in the early 1930s.”
First Nations voices are a vital part of Australia: Designing a Nation“Beginning with a strong expression of the history and continuing artistic and cultural traditions of the neighboring country in particular, but also contemporary First Nations artistic practice more broadly, in conversation with the themes of the exhibition,” says Bosowski.
Kenny Pittock’s Melted Bubble’O will be shown at the show.
Created in partnership with NGV, the gallery is inspired by both the galleries and private collections and the Australia Trust Collection, which are used to furnish the residences of the Governor General and Prime Minister.
Originally published at Melbourne News Vine
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