The Bridge for creative learning, Bundanon. Photo Zan Wimberley.
As the marketing spiel explains: ‘Bundanon is many things.’
Bundanon CEO Rachel Kent elaborates, ‘We are soon to be a national and international attraction – it is an absolute destination here … (it’s) very much a new chapter in Bundanon’s evolution.’
Just two weeks after devastating bushfires had swept through NSW’s South Coast in January 2020 – reaching within just a kilometre of the historic property – Federal Minister for the Arts, the Hon Paul Fletcher, broke ground on the site.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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