Kylie Banyard is exhibited as a finalist in the 2022 Len Fox Painting Prize at Castlemaine Art MuseuM “A grainy black and white archival photograph depicts a group of young women working in a cornfield (Cira. 1940). Found amongst the Black Mountain College archives, the photograph tells a story of three women clustered together working in a relaxed synchronous flow, framed by the grand Appalachian Mountains blanketed by a soft misty light; the dynamic between them appears as harmonious as the triangular shape their collective bodies form across the centre of the picture plane. Discovered while travelling on a research…

Bendigo Creek doesn’t get a lot of love or appreciation, as to most people it just looks like a big concrete and bluestone drain directing any surplus rainwater away from homes, businesses and roads in the regional Victorian city’s CBD. But parts of the creek still look like a natural waterway, just 13 kilometres north of the city at Huntly Streamside Reserve, not far from Bendigo’s livestock saleyards. It meanders along, dotted with trees and vegetation, alive with insects and birdlife beside a clearing of long grass. Bendigo Creek at the bottom of View Street is a heavily engineered drain.(ABC Central Victoria:…

“Artists Kylie Banyard and Jessie Boylan spent time visiting Bendigo Creek during winter and early spring 2021. Rising gently about here is the result of their collaborative experiments with historical and contemporary photographs, maps, topographical drawings, oil paint and watercolour. . For thousands of years prior to European colonisation, Bendigo Creek flourished under Djaara custodianship. The oral traditions and knowledge of the Dja Dja Wurrung People describe a healthy series of interconnected waterholes surrounded by wooded areas and treeless flats. . An 1851 map created by miner, William Sandbach describes the rhythms of the landscape as ‘sloping gently to the…