Kate Winterton – March’s Artist in Residence

Last week, our Artist in Residence for March, photographer Kate Winterton, emailed me a few works she created during her time here at Heritage Hill.  Last year, Kate was working on a photographic series called Shift which responded to a heritage listed space in Dandenong, focusing on the sense of aura and traces of past human contact, which is what Kate feels charges a historical space.

Kate continued this theme during her residency here and here we present some of the beautiful works she has created while here.

All of our 2013 Artist in Residence’s will be showing their final work in an exhibition from the 8 November – 8 December here at Heritage Hill. It’s going to be an amazing exhibition, so mark it in your diaries now!

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Artist in Residence – Kate Winterton

Today we thought we’d introduce our first Artist in Residence for 2013, Kate Winterton.

Kate Winterton is local artist who works across several disciplines including photography, sculptural and video. Growing up in rural Queensland her creative approach is emotive, exploratory and often laced with dark humour. Her practice engages with the relationship between the female body, adaptation and belief.

Kate Winterton has been an invited to show her work in exhibitions locally, interstate and internationally. In 2008 a photograph from her series Hysterical Bodies was awarded the Williamstown Contemporary 2D Art Prize. Her work has been acknowledge through art prizes such as the Alliance Francaise Art Prize, Walker Street Emerging Artist Award and the Lab X Photographic Art Prize. Her most recent photographic series Shift which was created in her Dandenong based studio was highly commended in the Colour Factory Photographic Prize for 2012.

In 2010 she graduated from Monash University completing a Bachelor of Fine Art. Currently she is studying as a Master of Contemporary Art candidate at the Victoria College of the Arts.

We’re looking forward to seeing what Kate produces throughout her residency here.

Stay tuned for more!

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Open Day round up

Our Open Day was on Sunday and the site was positively filled with people exploring the events and projects that inhabited every nook and cranny of Heritage Hill.

Let us tell you what went on… Are you sitting comfortably?

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Exhibition: My World, Your World

Our latest exhibition is being installed at this very moment! The artists whose work has graced our front fence for the last few months have all banded together for an inside exhibition as well! We’re thrilled to have the very talented Jacqueline Kyle, Catherine Hull Sinclair, Kim Dingwall and Robyn Rich gracing our walls with their art.

The exhibition opens this Sunday as part of our Open Day celebrations, so we invite you down to see My World, Your World, wander through the rooms where some of our 2013 Artists in Residence will be working then hang about in the sunshine, listening to the music of Yasamine Moslih, Jessica Paige and Eva Popov or wander down to the Laurel Lodge lawn to find a bargain in the Suitcase Rummage market.

We’ll see you this Sunday!

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Suitcase Rummage at Heritage Hill’s Open Day – Sunday 3rd of Feb

We wanted to tell you a bit more about the wonderful Suitcase Rummage, which is a a mini scaled market with giant rewards coming to Heritage Hill as part of our Open Day festivities. It promises to be everything that is a market without the hassle. Its about bringing a suitcase (or two!) filled to the brim with your goods and treats.

You can be a part of the Rummage experience by selling wares or come along to buy some real beauties! There will be brilliant vintage, artwork, bric-a-brac, clothing, books, jewellery, seconds, hand-made, shoes, records, music, badges, cards, handmade paper, ……you name it!

Come for a bargain, a swap, or an old fashioned haggle. Suitcase Rummage is not to be missed!

You must register to sell your wares, so please follow the link we put up on our blog and fill in your details. We will contact you with further information once you’ve registered!

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2013 at Hertiage Hill

Happy new year friends! We’re off to a roaring start for 2013.

We’re putting the final touches together for our Feb 3rd OPEN DAY (do check the link out, we got loads of interesting things happening that day, and they’re all free!)

Benga house is also going through a trandformation to become the artful Benga Studios. We’re removing the furniture from the old loungeroom and turning it into a studio for artists to hire. The room will be available for hourly, weekly and monthly rates.

It’s almost ready, but we thought we’d give you a few sneak peeks at it’s transformation progress.

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Occasional Public Art Thursday – Noble Park Civic Space by Jessica New

Noble Park Civic Space
Jessica New
2012

For our final art post of the year we wanted to share with you some great work that’s just been installed in the Noble Park Civic Space by artist Jessica New. Her brief was to ‘yarnbomb’ the space any way she chose. But Jessica decided to step it up a notch, not just using yarn as her medium of choice but also utalising her sewing and quilting skills to create a number of beautiful, handcrafted works that are now on display in the new Noble Park Civic Space.

If you’re quick, you also might come across one of the little handmade baskets Jessica has left for people to find and take. Crafted from thrifted tshirt and yarn, these gorgeous little objects are intended as a gift for anyone who finds them. We think that’s a beautiful thing, especially this close to Christmas!

Do let us know if you’re lucky enough to have collected one…

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Heritage Hill’s Open Day – Sunday 3rd of Feb

Heritage Hill launches its 2013 season with a free Open Day on Sunday the 3rd of February. We’ll be hosting a Suitcase Rummage market, there will be chilled out tunes in the Rose Garden from some of our favourite musicians and a free arts workshop for kids.

A rare glimpse of vintage fashions will also be showcased in Heritage Hill’s Laurel Lodge. These garments, ranging from the 1940s to the 1970s, were all handmade by Mrs Dorothy Hart of Benga house and have only ever been publicly displayed once prior.

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Exhibitions extented!

Some very exciting and rather breaking news – due to popular demand, we’re extending both our current exhibitions. This means you’ll be able to see both the Animal, Vegetable, Mineral exhibition from Laurie Collins and Sue Osborn as well as Ilona Nelson’s Tracings of You until mid December.

“A trace of a storm” (detail), Ilona Nelson

“Charismatic” (detail) Sue Osborn

“I-Pod” (detail) Laurie Collins

“Drouin South to Baw to the Baws” (detail) Sue Osborn

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Occasional Public Art Tuesday – Night Worker by Robbie Rowlands

Night Worker
Robbie Rowlands -
2012

Rowlands is known for mediating the boundaries between the fabricated and natural world in his work. Through a series of precise cuts the artist gently reconfigures existing objects into poetic forms. Robbie’s artistry and skill renders the steel flexible through repetitious incisions running the length of the pole. The sensuous fluid curves of the resulting sculpture are transformative.

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