La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus Phyllis Palmer Gallery

Situated in the Visual Arts Building at La Trobe’s Bendigo Campus, the Phyllis Palmer Gallery is a space dedicated to showing new work by graduates, current students and associates of La Trobe Art Institute as well as the wider community. The gallery is committed to showing the most diverse range of art works, from paintings, sculpture and ceramics to photography, graphic art and new media.

La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus Phyllis Palmer Gallery

Gate 8, Sharon Street Bendigo VIC 3550

03 5444 7917

www.latrobe.edu.au/bendigo/about-the-campus/campus-facilities/phyllis-palmer-gallery

Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm.

La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus Phyllis Palmer Gallery

Preview

Julie Mehretu and the new contemporary

Julie Mehretu’s first solo exhibition in the southern hemisphere, now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, attempts to harness the urgency and energy of the Ethiopian-born New Yorker’s multilayered painting practice.

Courtney Kidd

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Stranger than fiction: Magritte and Cao Fei

In two new exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, René Magritte and Cao Fei speak to each other across cultures and eras about the way that perception can unsettle reality—and the places the real intersects with the surreal.

Sally Gearon

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The undeniable power of Josina Pumani’s Maralinga

Josina Pumani’s electric ceramic work Maralinga—recently recognised at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards— deftly excavates a long-hidden past.

Jessica Alderton

Book Reviews

‘About Face’ mirrors the alluring world of contemporary portrait painting

About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.

Jane O'Sullivan

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Lindy Lee is keeping faith

With a 50-year practice exploring her Chinese heritage, longing and belonging, Zen spiritualism and the endless nature of being, Lindy Lee is now unveiling the pinnacle of her art.

Tiarney Miekus

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Julie Gough on history’s many afterlives

In GHOSTLAND, her new exhibition at the ANU Art & Design Gallery, Julie Gough continues her lifelong inquiry into gaps and silences—while conjuring the apparitions that haunt Tasmania’s colonial past.

La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus Phyllis Palmer Gallery

La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus Phyllis Palmer Gallery

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