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Bendigo Art Gallery Expansion

Bendigo Art Gallery Expansion

Architecture

Interior Design

Urban Design

Cultural

Bendigo

Photographer: Peter Clarke

Fender Katsalidis Architects was commissioned to design the new extension to the Bendigo Art Gallery, after successfully restoring a portion of it in 1997.

Location

Bendigo, Australia

Client

City of Greater Bendigo

Cost

$10 million

Completion

2014

Traditional Custodians

Dja Dja Wurrung people

Photographer: Peter Clarke

The expansion means a doubling of temporary exhibition space for the Gallery, which is widely recognised as one of Australia’s most innovative and popular regional galleries, known for its ambitious international exhibition schedule and its growing collection of contemporary works.

Photographer: Peter Clarke

Photographer: Peter Clarke

The new Gallery extension includes two major new galleries, two ‘link’ exhibition spaces, new back of house, loading dock and storage areas, and improvements to the gallery’s front-of-house and café areas.

Photographer: Peter Clarke

Photographer: Peter Clarke / Artwork: Patricia Piccinini, The Young Family (2002/03) John Wolseley, The Language of Lizards (2007/08) Polixeni Papapetrou, Desert Man (2013) Rosemary Laing, weather #4 (2006) Petrina Hicks, Emily the Strange (2011) Benjamin Armstrong, Conjurer III (2012) Stephen Bush, The Lure of Paris #22 (2002) Dale Frank, Three Lies: Good things come in small packages; Nothing is interesting if you are not interested; One man’s meat is another man’s poison. They will show you everything they have – their sexy bodies. When the student is ready, the master will appear. Laughter is the closest distance between two people while Happiness is not a state of mind, but a manner of travelling. Tarampa Hotel,Tarampa Road (2004)

Photographer: Peter Clarke

Bendigo Art Gallery Expansion