Birdsong brings together women artists working across painting, ceramics, textile, photography, video and sound. Emerging from shared conversations and everyday rituals, the exhibition moves through ideas of connection, voice and transformation, threaded together by birdsong.

Exhibition Dates:

4–26 June

Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm

Exhibition Events:

• Birdsong Opening

  Thursday 4 June, 6–8pm

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• Birdsong Workshop: Weaving with Cardboard

  Friday 12 June, 1:30–3pm

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• Birdsong Musical Soirée

  Friday 19 June, 5:30–7:30pm

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About the exhibition:

There is something about birds. The way they move through the world without asking permission, carrying what needs to be carried, crossing distances that seem impossible. This exhibition began with that feeling and slowly gathered a group of women around it.

Birdsong brings together painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, textile, video and sound in a conversation that has been building for months. It began around a kitchen table and moved outside under the sky on the peninsula, in studios and gardens and morning routines. The artists come from different places and different cultures: from this ancient Australian country and from Athens and from the quiet of everyday life. What they share is a way of speaking through making, through material, through forms that shift and refuse to stay fixed.

At the heart of the exhibition is a video work — three women in a garden, talking the way birds chatter in a tree, wandering and funny and then suddenly profound and a live soundscape composed by guitarist Meredith Connie, who will perform at the opening alongside the singer Christelise de Graaf, their voices joining the birdsong that runs through the whole exhibition like a thread.