Join us to celebrate the opening of our Winter Season of exhibitions:
Taking Back Language | Uncle Brian McKinnon, Fiona Foley, Jazz Money, Jenna Lee, Kait James, Karla Dickens, Mia Boe and Peter Waples-Crowe.
Remembering to Forget | Hootan Heydari
You, Me and Everything Around Us | Sammaneh Pourshafighi
Free to attend, all welcome
This Winter, experience three thought-provoking exhibitions at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. How do artists subvert and reclaim language? Find out in Taking Back Language, a new group exhibition that utlilises text in both humourous and powerful ways. Explore Remembering to Forget, an installation by Hootan Heydari that examines history, place and the inevitable erosion of memory.
We are also excited to launch You, Me and Everything Around Us, a new showing of works by multidisciplinary artist Sammaneh Pourshafighi that navigates the artist’s autobiographical and familial relationships, tracing the shifting boundaries between family, environment and self.
About the exhibitions:
Taking Back Language
Using different mediums, artists in this exhibition engage with text to reclaim language, examining the ways in which words can be used to reveal, challenge and subvert different power structures. Whilst some artists turn colonial erasure back on itself, others celebrate the reclamation of language.
Artists: Uncle Brian McKinnon, Fiona Foley, Jazz Money, Jenna Lee, Kait James, Karla Dickens, Mia Boe and Peter Waples-Crowe. Curated by Sarah Werkmeister.
Remembering to Forget | Hootan Heydari
Heydari’s new exhibition examines history, place and memory. Photographs of personal significance are transferred onto plaster, a material rich in the symbolism of fragility, strength, healing, and domesticity. These are arranged across the floor; you can feel them cracking under foot, symbolising the inevitable erosion of memory.
You, Me and Everything Around Us | Sammaneh Pourshafighi
This collection of works navigates the artist’s autobiographical and familial relationships, tracing the shifting boundaries between family, environment, memory, and self.
📍 Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, 7 Prospect Hill Drive, Bundoora 3083
Entry is free, all welcome
Getting here
— Venue is wheelchair accessible – disabled parking available (2 spaces); entry via ramp at main entrance
— Free car parking available (40 spaces) via onsite car park
— Bike parking also available
—Tram route 86, stop number 63 (Greenwood Drive) + approx 6 min (550m) walk
In the interest of caring for the health and well-being of other attendees, please do not attend if you feel unwell, even if your symptoms are mild.
Please note: general photography and short videos (for social media) will be recorded at this event for promotional use only and to document this event internally. If you prefer not to be photographed, please let a member of staff know once you arrive.
About Us
Bundoora Homestead Art Centre is the public art gallery for the City of Darebin, on Wurundjeri Woi wurrung Country. It is a centre for contemporary art, ideas, a public garden and café, housed in a Queen Ann style mansion.
Opening hours: Wed- Fri: 11am–4pm
Saturday: 10am–4pm
Contact us via bundoorahomestead@darebin.vic.gov.au for any queries.
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Image: Bundoora Homestead Opening Event 2024. Photography: Keelan O'Hehir
