BIENNALE 2023 –CULTURE/NATURE – REVISITED

Works from the City of Bunbury Art Collection

In the early 1990’s, the former City of Bunbury Art Collection Committee agreed to develop and expand the City’s Art Collection through the acquisition of artworks by West Australian artists.

In 1993, the first Bunbury Biennale was launched as a new vision. Its aim was to invite established and emerging artists to produce contemporary works and to acquire new works from this exhibition to further enhance and expand the existing Collection.

Another major goal for the inaugural Bunbury Biennale was to challenge and confront audiences with ideas about the nature of art, and ways of seeing the world. It was held with the belief that it would benefit and educate the Bunbury and South West community by providing a broader context in which local art could be viewed and accessed.

Since its inception the Bunbury Biennale has grown into a major art event and become an open platform for artists to present the latest trends in cutting edge contemporary art, pushing boundaries, exploring challenging concepts and stretching limits.

The 2023 Bunbury Biennale is organized around the theme ‘Culture/Nature’, a series of exhibitions invite the public to engage with a wide array of creative practitioners dedicated to critically engaging the environment in a myriad of ways. Revisited forms part of the Biennale and highlights artworks that have been acquired from past Bunbury Biennales. The selected works present a variety of interpretations of nature as subject matter and provide a wonderful insight of the contemporary artistic movements that were current at the time, and how they have developed over the years.

Artists

Penny Bovell, Jo Darbyshire, Stuart Elliott, Helen Foster, Galliano Fardin, Lee Harrop, Thomas Heidt, Catherine Higham, Jarrad Martyn, Gisela Züchner-Mogall, Janis Nedela, Tania Spencer, Tony Windberg.