MAGNETIC EXCURSIONS_BUNDANON

> July 2023


Bundanon Artists Trust is on the land and waters of the Wodi Wodi and Yuin Peoples, and we acknowledge that it will always remain Aboriginal land, and deeply appreciate the chance to spend time with the beauty of the river, the wombats, the birds and the hills. We were lucky to work alongside the Bundanon staff and artists Danielle Barrie, Agnieszka Golda and Jo Law, Sarah Plummer, Liberty Kerr, Charmaine Papertalk Green and Deborah Green and we'd also like to extend respect and acknowledgment to their Yamaji Country and People.

At Bundanon, we hosted guests including Nicole Smede and Astrida Neimanis and dinners and took time to look back over the Magnetic Topographies archive in a place dedicated so generously to artists, education, and creative practice. To share and evolve our work, we decided to invite artists connected with Magnetic Topographies to contribute to a teaching pack of provocations designed to support artists in the act of making and especially to support creative practitioners working casually within universities.

We don't usually get to be in the same place and while we were together, we combined our knowledge of metalwork in the Dorothy Dwyer Silver Studio and sandcast silver—Dannielle Barry was immensely supportive in getting us set up. We did a lot of screenprinting—which in turn raised money to start our small publishing house, Magnetic Press. We walked and made experiments with lithographer Sarah Plummer and we went to see Barbie at a sold out session at the Roxy in Nowra.

Putting time aside for this residency at Bundanon allowed us to honour and reflect on the contributions a wide-ranging and impressive group of artists have made to our Magnetic Topographies conversations and it developed the work and research we did during the pandemic into alive and physical outcomes that connect us to place, time and other artists.