Bimblebox Nature Exhibition

Bimblebox: art – science – nature has been touring around Australia since June 2014, and in February 2017, it will open for the last time, at the Somerset Regional Art Gallery in  Toogoolawah (100km north west of Brisbane). We would urge everyone who hasn’t yet had a chance to this this wonderful exhibition to make the effort to check it out.

Bimblebox is an exhibition that showcases artist interpretations of the unique, semiarid desert uplands bio-region of Bimblebox Nature Refuge, currently under threat from a large coal mine.

Celebrating the unique ark of life found at the Bimblebox Nature Refuge, a diverse group of artists spent 10 days on the Queensland reserve; documenting, drawing, looking, and recording in order to develop artworks that bear witness to this protected refuge. Artists drew inspiration from scientific research, historical texts, and from being on the country.

The exhibition centres upon a dialogue between art, science, environmental sustainability and regional communities. The resulting exhibition is information rich, dynamic and diverse including artworks in installation, works on paper, painting, artist books, digital storytelling and sound. The exhibition will also incorporate aspects of the scientific and environmental research and social history of the site. The works help us to document and understand this place and its inhabitants while providing a unique record of Bimblebox, its past and its future.

This exhibition will be on display at the Somerset Regional Art Gallery – The Condensery until Sunday, 26 March 2017.