Bundoora Homestead displays treasured Australian landscape art in free exhibition

A COLLECTION of works by some of the biggest names in Australian landscape art’s recent history has come to Bundoora Homestead.

Reflections, an Exhibition at Bundoora Art Homestead , Bundoora, features big names - historical - in landscape and still life including Margaret Preston and John Borrack. Curator Cassie May. Pictures:Angie Basdekis

AUSTRALIA’S landscape has provided inspiration to artists for thousands of years.

Now a collection of works by some of the biggest names in Australian landscape art’s recent history has come to Bundoora Homestead.

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Reflections Australian Landscape and Still Life features over fifty works from 1880 to today by artistic heavyweights such as Margaret Preston to Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin and Jeffrey Smart.

With rooms dedicated to interiors, landscape, seascape and contemporary urban landscape the exhibition chronicles over a century of Australian art history from Australian Impressionism through to the Edwardian, modern and contemporary eras.

Curator Cassie May said the works were on loan from Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum Collection and it was the first time they would be displayed together in Melbourne.

“It’s a really special opportunity to showcase our regional treasures in a metropolitan setting,” Ms May said.

“I think what’s really striking about this exhibition is the quality and the beauty and stories each work tells. You do get that impression of Australian landscape and its beauty in all its many forms.”

“I think it’s interesting how the artists have explored different aspects from realism to impressionism over the past 100 plus years, and how artists have used current styles of the time to interpret the landscape whether it’s urban or regional — the comment is about what they’ve captured.”

The free exhibition is on at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre at 7/27 Snake Gully Drive, Bundoora. The show runs Wednesday to Friday from 11am to 4pm and Saturday and Sunday 12pm to 5pm until September 28.