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

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The spirit of Emily Kam Kngwarray’s Country

A comprehensive new survey at the National Gallery of Australia pays tribute to Emily Kam Kngwarray and the Country she loved.

Andrew Stephens

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The women raised by wolves

From crones to witches to grandmothers, the feminine monstrosity offered by fairy tales is an antidote to our current, unsatisfying forms of female transgression—as a new exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art reveals.

Neha Kale

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Inside Kirtika Kain’s Sydney apartment, and now studio

Kirtika Kain’s Western Sydney apartment on Dharug Country is crowded with boxes of materials and new canvases. She came back from a residency in Italy in late 2022 and since then she’s been living alongside her work, preparing for her solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 and for the Biennale of Sydney next year. The cohabitation has been intense and sometimes messy, but Kain says studio life is teaching her new confidence.

Jane O'Sullivan

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Amy Claire Mills reimagines the medical as medicinal

In a new exhibition at Outer Space, Amy Claire Mills offers a love letter to her disabled and neurodivergent communities by turning cold, hard medical spaces into places of safety and warmth.

Josephine Mead

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Kandinsky makes the abstract emotional

The Art Gallery of New South Wales’s Kandinsky is the largest showcase of the modernist’s work ever to be exhibited in Australia. What makes his abstract expressionism endure?

Briony Downes

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Nick Modrzewski uses art to find poetry in the law

Nick Modrzewski combines his art practice with a similarly intense career in the law. His new paintings at COMA gallery explore the way human bodies fit (or don’t) within the institutional structures that guide our societies.

La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus Phyllis Palmer Gallery

La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus Phyllis Palmer Gallery

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