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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White Cube workshop from Ilona Nelson

Our Artist in Residence from 2011, Ilona Nelson, knows just how hard it is to be an emerging female artist, that’s why she’s offering a free ticket to her White Cube Workshop to one emerging female artist, to help them on their career path.

The White Cube Workshops are a great way for emerging artists to learn how to negotiate the pitfalls (and celebrate the wins) of a career as an artist.

 

Ilona has had her exhibitions featured in the local papers, Beat, Art Almanac, Art Guide, frankie, Harper’s Bazaar Australia and the cover of Trouble. In the White Cube Workshop, she will tell you how she got her work featured in these publications plus all the other aspects of organising your art exhibition,
such as:

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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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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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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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Guest Post – Ilona Nelson, Heritage Hill’s inaugural Artist in Residence

Last year I was lucky enough to be asked by Heritage Hills to be their first Artist In Residence. I spent a wintery day on the grounds where I had a tour on arrival, brainstormed ideas as I walked, then started work right away. I don’t normally work with such immediacy and I enjoyed trying something out of my comfort zone to see what I could create.

I used film and digital cameras to photograph and film myself interacting within the different environments of the two buildings. I wasn’t sure how it was all going to come together in the end, but I wanted to capture as many ideas as I could on the day. Having my son with me also added to my need to work quickly! He was about ten months at the time and luckily he had a sleep in the pram when I was running around in front of the camera.

By the end of the day I was physically and mentally tired but also happy, inspired and proud of what I had achieved. I felt like I had worked through all my ideas and I was excited to take a step back to look at what I had created. These images became the series ‘tracings of you’ which consists of a short film and photographs, and are currently being exhibited at Heritage Hills.

 

-Ilona Nelson

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Our final Artist in Residence for the year – the Society of Histrionic Happenings

For the past two weeks, Sydney’s Society of Histrionic Happenings, our final Artist in Residence for the year, have been holed up in the Old School Room researching Laurel Lodge’s 19th century school marm, Matilda Shaw for the next evolution of their production The Governess. They wrote a little about the process on their blog here. It’s been an interesting process, having an artist on site  researching one of our notaries.

Last Friday night was the public outcome of the residency, a showing of the work so far. A select audience was in attendance to watch The Governess’s tragic tale and comic performance.

Some exercise to start the class

Maths

French

A playground game

A spelling game

And a sing along

We’ll be watching to see what happens to the Governess next.

If you’d like to apply for our Artist in Residence program, you have until Monday the 22 of October, so be quick! More information can be obtained by emailing us at heritagehill [AT] cgd.vic.gov.au. Remember to replace the ‘[at]‘ with a ‘@’ sign!

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October’s exhibitions, events and artists in residence

October is a busy month here at Heritage Hill. We have oodles of things going on, take a deep breath and here we go…

Our two exhibitions this month are LINEages of Dandenong, by Pixi Mix in Benga house and Never Too Old To Create by a local group of older artists in Laurel Lodge.
This is LINEages of Dandenong, in which Pixi Mix has created massive, life-sized charcoal drawings of historical photos of Dandenong’s citizens which are interspersed with details of present day Dandenong on transparent architectural paper layered together on the wall. The result is a ghostly presence of then and now all culminating is a beautiful visual investigation into the identity of Dandenong.

Meanwhile, down in Laurel Lodge we have Never Too Old To Create from a group of older artists, aged 78-92. These artists are proving that older people still have contributions to make to the community. The over 40 works have been painted over the last few years by this spritely bunch of ladies and gentlemen which portray a wide variety of subjects including gardens, animals, still lives and even a few marine-themed images from around the world.

We also have Sundays in the Sun starting up again. So next Sunday the 14th of October we have Gwendolyne O’Dea, Jessica Paige and Hello Satellites playing chilled out tunes in the gardens from 12-3. So pack a picnic and come hang out at Hertiage Hill.
And we have our final Artist in Residence for the year, The Society of Histronic Happenings down from Sydney, holed up in the Old School House researching Laurel Lodge and it’s stories for the next installment of their show The Governess.

So do drop by and check out one or all of these great happenings!

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Guest post from our previous Artist in Residence, Clare McCracken

Dear Heritage Hill,

Thank you so much for having me over the month of August. Your studio space in the Old School House, adjacent to Laurel Lodge, is a beautiful working environment. Well lit and heated, it was both cosy and really functional. I had some pretty extraordinary weather while there but the space kept me warm and dry, and when the sun did come out, walking around your incredible gardens and eating my lunch under the shade of your giant fig trees was fabulous.

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