Workshop // Weaving Internal Landscapes with Heather Dunn
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Workshop // Weaving Internal Landscapes with Heather Dunn
Saturday 20 June, 10:30am-12:30pm
$35 members, $40 non-members, materials supplied, bookings essential
Join BRAG for a relaxed, creative workshop reflecting on the landscapes we hold dear in our minds. Under guidance of artist and weaver Heather Dunn, we will translate our memories into small weavings.
Techniques and possibilities will be explored along the way, and you will take away the memory of place, shared endeavour, and a small weaving framed by its loom.
This workshop will include a short tour of exhibition Found by Heather Dunn in BRAG’s Foyer Gallery.
Please note this workshop is designed for adults
About the exhibition
Found is less about the act of physically collecting objects and more about observation and presence within a landscape.
A road trip in 2025 across the Nullarbor and through the outback of South Australia during one of the region’s most severe droughts in recent history formed the basis for the imagery in this body of work. Australia’s vastness is central to the experience: immense skies, cathedral-like quiet punctuated by birdsong, stark light and the beauty of the gloaming.
The fragments of wire used in this exhibition were largely gathered from areas of abandoned settler infrastructure. Colonial expansion into the marginal rangelands and semi-arid regions of South Australia produced cycles of boom-and-bust exploitation of the land, leaving visible traces across the landscape.
Ruined towns, farm complexes and transport infrastructure remain scattered across the Flinders Ranges, often well beyond the 300 mm rainfall line. Many of these developments emerged from speculative attempts to profit from the occasional favourable season, resulting in the occupation and transformation of unceded land. Even Wilpena Pound was not immune to this extractive approach, having been cropped for wheat for several seasons during the nineteenth century.
Within this context, the small fragments and found materials in Found evoke vast and empty vistas, reflecting on the indifference of the natural world to human ambition and the marks left by settlement.
Getting Here
BRAG is located in the heart of Bathurst on Wiradjuri Country in the Central West of NSW.
Entry is via the Gallery/Library forecourt located at 70-78 Keppel Street. BRAG is accessible by public transport.
Victoria Pass Closure: A detour is currently in place on the Great Western Highway following the closure of Victoria Pass in both directions - but don't let that halt your road-trip adventure as there are Other Ways to the West. The region is still very much open for business, and there are some genuinely spectacular ways to get here.
Accessibility
Venue Access Information: Click here for more information
If you wish to discuss requirements before visiting the gallery, please feel free to contact us on 02 6333 6555 or email us at brag@bathurst.nsw.gov.au
Banner images courtesy Heather Dunn.
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