27 Jul – Sun 22 Sep 2024 | Burrinja Gallery
Drawn from Nature: Botanical Illustration between Art and Science is a group exhibition featuring some of Victoria’s most accomplished botanical illustrators, with works by Celia Rosser.
The Initiation of Australian Botany: Selections from Banks’ Florilegium presents engravings from the renowned record of plants collected by botanist Joseph Banks and his team in the 1700s.
11 May – 21 Jul 2024 | Burrinja Gallery
Not Your Kitchen Lino is a showcase of contemporary print-making by acclaimed Australian printmakers, featuring limited edition prints, artists books, scrolls and sculptures.
The Captain’s Catch is a satirical take on colonial characters such as Captain Cook, delivered in a series of highly detailed compositions by renowned Sydney-based printmaker and teacher Rew Hanks.
3 Dec 2023 – 18 Feb 2024 | Burrinja Gallery
Looking back whilst also walking forward: this special project brings together a suite of objects and artefacts found in the depths of the Burrinja archive – from the mundane to the dazzling, the everyday to the extraordinary.
These archived objects reflect on 25 years of community leadership through the arts, while a newly commissioned aerie gallery installation speculates on a future as yet unknown to us.
30 Oct 2020 – 27 Feb 2021 | Burrinja Gallery & Online
Co-curated by Gail Mabo, Dr Jonathan McBurnie and Kellie Williams (Director of Umbrella Studio contemporary arts), the exhibition brings together a selection of about 30 works by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists in the spirit of reconciliation, twenty-five years after the historic achievement.
Burrinja was the only Victorian stop on the exhibitions tour and we hosted a dual delivery of the works. Initially as a digital experience and then from January 20th, 2021 in person in the new Burrinja Gallery.
6 Mar – 11 Apr 2021 | Burrinja Gallery
Presenting award winning realist painters from Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and the ACT, this exhibition takes its inspiration from the Women Painting Women exhibitions in the United States, this is the third Australian instalment of the Women Painting Women phenomenon which celebrates traditional realist painting and the talent of female artists.
“This exhibition uniquely honours the female spirit – of realist painters and their sitters” – artist Vicki Sullivan
16 APR – 9 MAY 2021 | Burrinja Gallery
2021’s theme WABI SABI is a Japanese philosophy which encourages us to focus on the blessings hiding in our daily lives and celebrate the way things are rather than how we think they should be. The group exhibition is a unique opportunity to see work from all the artists in one location and select the studios that most intrigue or inspire you to visit during the Dandenong Ranges Open Studios weekend.
Every Monday in May, 2021 | SMS to audience
Five contemporary artists are commissioned by Burrinja to make new digital works.
Artists include Gretel Taylor, Roderick Price, Julien Macandili, Rhys Kiekegaard, and Edwina Green.
Responding to the idea of ‘the anthropause’ (a considerable global slowing of modern human activities, notably travel, due to COVID-19 restrictions affecting the flow of human movement globally), the artists have created a suite of new visual, video and interactive art experiences for you.
New ideas and new works from the new world.
The project turns our hand held screens into the stages of our future.
A new work was delivered to audiences each Monday throughout May, 2021.
15 May – 24 July, 2021 | Burrinja Gallery
Drawing from the vivid and lush landscape of the Dandenong Ranges, a place each artist once called home, the works in this exhibition showcase three distinctly different perspectives.
Mary Tonkin – Ramble : Contemporary plein air landscape artist whose detailed large scale representations reflect the forest at her family’s property in Kalorama.
Fred Williams –The Upwey Years : Australia’s most iconic landscape artist redefined painting in the Australian bush during his ‘Upwey years’ from 1963-68.
Miles Evergood – Vistas : An impressionist whose 1930’s Kalorama paintings are characterised by strong colours and expressive brushstrokes and use of palette knife.
We began by revisiting “the body as is place” program which was a one night screening of dance films that explore the complex relationships between body, place and environment. Featuring new work by a range of local dance film makers and guests, these screenings are less ‘dancing in situ’ and more about poetry in motion en plein air. The body and place share a complex and symbiotic relationship. From green valleys, to rolling vistas, to celestial skies, this curation of contemporary dance films places the body and environment in an intimate conversation.
With the permission of the film makers we hosted a one off online screening of the works for free.
Thus the Saturday Night In with Burrinja made its debut, and has formed an important part of our pivot to digital experiences for audiences.
