Dyarubbin
Undercurrents
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery 29 Oct 2022 – 5 Feb 2023
Penrith Regional Gallery 3 Dec 2022 – 5 Mar 2023
This exhibition shares Dharug stories of Dyarubbin using oral histories, art & Dharug words, empowering us with a greater understanding of this astonishing landscape & its culture.
Undercurrents considers the agency that bodies of water possess, and the delicate relationship between the Anthropocene and our environments.
Undercurrents
Dyarubbin
This exhibition includes work by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, Penelope Cain, Dean Cross, Kalanjay Dhir, Bonita Ely, Maddison Gibbs, Haines & Hinterding, Venessa Possum, Latai Taumoepeau, Andrew Yip and one collaborative artwork made by students of the Painting up Country program, led by Dharug artist Leanne Tobin.
This exhibition features works by Blak Douglas (Adam Hill), Maddison Gibbs, Joy Lai, Jasmine Seymour, Leanne Tobin, Edna Watson, Leanne Mulgo Watson, Erin Wilkins, Jason Wing, Rhiannon and Lyra Wright.
BONITA ELY Let Me Take You There: the Great Artesian Basin (detail), 2021
Open Day
Saturday 3 Dec, 10 am - 2 pm Brewshop 10 am - 12 pm Boil, brew, infuse and ingest rainwater collected from the Gallery’s grounds in this performance workshop led by Lleah Smith and Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris.
Official Opening Saturday 29 Oct, 12 - 3 pm
A collaborative project between Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery and Penrith Regional Gallery.
JOY LAI Sackville Reach, Dyarubbin (detail) 2020, photograph
A Blue Mountains City Council Planetary Health Initiative.
Talk: Grace Karskens Sunday 29 Jan, 1 - 3 pm
This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
Grace Karskens, Professor Emerita of History, will be talking about the research from the ‘The Real Secret River, Dyarubbin’, collaborative project with Dharug researchers Leanne Mulgo Watson, Jasmine Seymour, Erin Wilkins and Rhiannon Wright.
Official Opening 12 - 2 pm Opening remarks followed by drinks and canapés from Cafe at Lewers.
Free event, bookings essential.
29 Oct 2022 – 5 Mar 2023
Undercurrents Performance Program
Discover WATER. Exhibitions, programs and events connecting Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury and Penrith.
Saturday 11 Feb, 2 - 5 pm
Undercurrents artists, Maddison Gibbs, Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris and Andrew Yip present, perform and share ideas responding to the exhibition’s themes and provocations. ANDREW YIP Bloom, real-time stereoscopic immersive environment (detail), 2022
WATERTRAIL.AU COVER: Leanne Tobin The Running of the Eels (detail) 2022, video still
School Holiday Activities
A range of dates during the Jan school holidays Explore Aboriginal language, art and culture in a series of school holiday workshops that focus on local Dharug language and painting. For more information on these workshops visit the website. Tickets: $20. LEANNE MULGO WATSON Marri Badu Muru – Big Water path (detail) 2022, acrylic and ink on canvas