KYLIE BANYARD ACQUIRED BY BENDIGO ART GALLERY

Kylie Banyard’s painting ‘Touching Wattle’ has been acquired by Bendigo Art Gallery.
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Touching Wattle was exhibited in Kylie Banyard’s 2022 exhibition at Nicholas Thompson Gallery ‘Becoming Sessile’.
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The works respond to a daily ritual shared with the artist’s six-year-old son. Affectionally known as ‘touching’ and performed on walks together, the two documented their sensory and affective encounters touching and talking to plants. These paintings and the collaborative research that led to their making, raises questions about what careful time spent encountering and contemplating the lives of these enigmatic more-than-human keepers-of-place might teach us about other ways of being in and of the world.
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Founded in 1887, Bendigo Art Gallery is one of the oldest and largest regional art galleries in Australia.