On Bunurong Country: Art and Design in Frankston

McClelland Gallery invite you to hear from a panel of historians who contributed to the recently published book, On Bunurong Country: Art and Design in Frankston. Learn about Frankston's fascinating connections with artists such as Daryl and Joan Lindsay, Violet Teague, Christian and Napier Waller, Paul Montford, and the Boyd family, and architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, Roy Grounds, Robin Boyd, and Osborn McCutcheon, as well as the continuing cultural practices of Bunurong artists.

Jane Eckett

Jane Eckett is a lecturer in art history and art curatorship at the University of Melbourne. Previously she held the Ursula Hoff Fellowship at the Ian Potter Museum of Art and National Gallery of Victoria (2018) and a Melbourne Research Fellowship (2021), and was a Fellow with the Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) at the University of Melbourne (2020–2023)

Her work focuses on modernist sculpture, public art and memorials, diaspora art, and émigré networks. Publications include the award-winning catalogue accompanying Melbourne Modern: European Art and Design at RMIT since 1945 (RMIT Gallery, 2019, co-curated and co-edited with Harriet Edquist) and Centre Five: Bridging the Gap (McClelland, 2022).

Andrew Gaynor is a writer, researcher and freelance Curator whose area of special interest is Australian modernism. He has held curatorial positions at key institutions including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, the City of Boroondara, and the McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park. He has curated exhibitions on Helen Maudsley, Louise Hearman, Guy Grey-Smith, Gay rights in Victoria, Robert Jacks and many others. In 2019, Andrew was commissioned to curate the exhibition Bayside: portrait of place, which opened in 2021 as the tenth anniversary event for the Bayside City Gallery; and his latest shows, with Gippsland Art Gallery, are scheduled to open in 2024 and 2025.

Andrew’s writings include the first monograph on the West Australian artist Guy Grey-Smith published by UWA Publishing in 2012; and since 2015, he has written extensively on Australian art for Deutscher & Hackett Fine Art Auctions.

Bronwyn Hughes

Dr Bronwyn Hughes OAM is an art historian with specific interests in sculpture and stained glass of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Prior to her ‘retirement’ she lectured in glass at Monash University, Holmesglen Institute and University of Melbourne over several decades, and more recently at Melbourne Polytechnic.

She was a founding board member of the Duldig Sculpture Museum and Gallery.

In 2022 Bronwyn chaired the S E Asia, Australasia and Oceania region throughout the momentous United Nations International Year of Glass.

Her book, Lights Everlasting: Australia’s Commemorative Glass from the Boer War to Vietnam was published in 2023 and a documentary, Let the Light Shine, based on these images and themes is scheduled for public screenings from April 2024.

This is a free event but bookings are essential as numbers are limited.