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Contemporary Art Gallery, Heritage House & Gardens, and Cafe Open Wednesday to Friday 11am–4pm.

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre is a public art gallery for the City of Darebin, housing contemporary art, ideas, a public garden and café, 𝘰𝘯 𝘞𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘫𝘦𝘳𝘪 𝘞𝘰𝘪 𝘸𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺. Responsive to our context and the complex history of our site, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre seeks to provide a space for discussion around the key concerns of our times through the work of local, national, and international artists. Our exhibitions, collection and public programs are intended to be of interest and educational value to our wide-ranging audiences. Bundoora Homestead’s mission is to deliver experiences with art and culture that inspire, challenge and empower our community. Saturday 10am–5pm
📍 7 Prospect Hill Dr, Bundoora
Entry is free, all welcome! Bundoora Homestead Art Centre provides disability access including a lift, on-site car parking and is situated close to public transport.

11/11/2026

𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐹𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑦 a new exhibition by Chira Grasby is now open!

A survey of self through Y2K nostalgia and adolescence in the digital age. Using oil painting, low-fi video, and hand-painted ceramics, Grasby explores her associations with early 2000s internet culture.

Grasby brings this work to life as winner of the Bundoora Homestead Art Prize at the Midsumma Festival Art Award 2026.

Free to attend, all welcome. Visit the Darebin Arts website for more details: https://tinyurl.com/mwtnsann
Credit: Left: Chira Grasby, 'Sk8r Boi' 2024. Right: Chira Grasby, 'Saddle Club DVD Box' 2026. 📸 James Henry

06/11/2026

Don't miss the launch of our new exhibition season, 6- 8pm today!✨

𝙀𝙭𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨:
- 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐹𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑦 | Chira Grasby. Delivered as a part of Midsumma Festival

- 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑈𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 | Curated by Sarah Werkmeister

Featuring some of Australia’s leading contemporary artists; Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser, Reinhold Inkamala, Rosemary Laing, Alana Hunt, Ray Thomas and many more!

WHEN: Saturday 7 November | 6 - 8pm
WHERE: Bundoora Homestead Art Centre | 7 Prospect Hill Drive, Bundoora VIC 3083

Free entry - register via the Darebin Arts website: https://tinyurl.com/3wanyaye
Image credit: Bundoora Homestead Opening Event 2025. Photography: Lucy Foster

04/11/2026

Explore 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑈𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠- a major new exhibition that reflects on the challenges of housing and homelessness in Australia today.

Curated by Sarah Werkmeister, this exhibition brings together some of Australia’s leading contemporary artists to explore issues of land ownership, wealth inequity, and the concept of home.

A powerhouse line-up exploring one of the country’s most urgent issues.

𝐹𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔: Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser, Alana Hunt, Aleks Danko, Callum Morton, Ciaran Begley and James Nguyen, Elvis Richardson, John Citizen, Kenny Pittock, Lenie Namatjira, Mia Khin Boe, Narelle Jubelin and Helen Grace, Natalie Thomas, Raquel Ormella, Ray Thomas, Reinhold Inkamala, Rosemary Laing & Scotty So.

👉 Don't miss the opening event for this exhibition this Saturday 7 November, 6- 8pm. Find out more via our website: https://tinyurl.com/mtyxk2t8
Credit: Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser. 'Snap out of it' (c) from the installation 'Snap out of it' (detail) 2014 Courtesy of the artists & Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Sydney

02/11/2026

Applications to exhibit with us at the Darebin Local Art Salon 2027 are currently open 📣

Not sure how to apply? Join us for a free online information session!

📅 Wednesday 11 November | 6pm- 6:45pm
📍 Online via Teams
🎟️ Free to attend, registrations essential

The Darebin Local Art Salon is a major community art prize and exhibition that provides a platform for local artists and makers at any stage in their career to exhibit in a public art gallery. Free to enter and open to anyone who lives, works, studies or bases their creative practice in Darebin. All submissions will be exhibited, up to and including the 160th entry.

If you’re unable to attend in-person, this session will be recorded and made available via our website within a week of the event.

Register via our website: https://tinyurl.com/y8nycfcb
Image: A1 Darebin Art Salon Opening Event 2023. Photography credit: Keelan O'Hehir

19/10/2026

Crafting Workshops with studiopcl 🪡

📆 Wednesdays; 4 November – 25 November
⏰ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
📍 7 Prospect Hill Drive Bundoora
🎟️ $15 per session

Join textile artist Phong Chi Lai for a workshop series exploring the creative, sustainable, and social possibilities of working with cloth.

Across four workshops participants will learn practical techniques while sharing stories, skills and ideas through making. Using reclaimed textiles and natural materials, the program celebrates the simple act of making together and the connections that emerge through cloth, creativity and community.

Attend one or the whole series! Register now via our website: https://tinyurl.com/y7p52vye
Image Credit: Courtesy of Studio PCL

14/10/2026

Final weeks to explore Sally Ann McIntyre's - 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡-𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑢𝑖𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠.

This exhibition explores the song of the extinct huia, a culturally significant bird from Aotearoa. The artist plays musical notation of huia calls on 19th century audio technology at sites where the bird was spotted, observing how living birds respond to a vanished voice, highlighting relationships that have existed for millennia.

👉️ Don't miss a special activation of the wax cylinders featured in Sally's exhibition this Saturday 17 October, 1-2pm.

Be sure to come along to witness this haunting live performance of 19th century audio. Find out more via the Darebin Arts website: https://tinyurl.com/d65e8nny
Credit: Sally Ann McIntyre, Collected Huia Notations (like shells on the shore when the sea of living memory has receded) install view 2026 📸 James Henry

07/10/2026

Final weeks to explore 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘨𝘩 چوغ

Curated by Alia Qasim Zada & Elyas Alavi this exhibition is a space for connection as much as reflection.

Featuring artists: Reza Foladi, Sher Ali, Alia Qasim Zada, Razia Ghazal, Sha Sarwari, & Tamana Alizada.

Chogh is the Hazaragi word for “thread”, this exhibition brings together six Australian-Hazara artists whose works speak from lived experience exploring migration, identity, gender and belonging.

👉 Don't miss this exhibition before it closes on Saturday 24 October. Plan your visit via the Darebin Arts website:
https://tinyurl.com/3hf9hw9y
Images: 1&2: Reza Foladi. 2025 دفع بال gouache, tea and mixed media on Wasli paper
3. Sher Ali, SCREEN WEAVES 2026. mixed media
4. Alia Qasim Zada. Koh (Mountain) 2024. acrylic and opaque watercolour on wasli, triptych
📸 James Henry

06/10/2026

Don't miss Heidi Schoenheimer's 𝐴𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒.

Schoenheimer paints the people and places around her: everyday scenes, quiet moments, and the local streets she knows well. Look for the small gestures, the pockets of light, the colour, and the quiet drama of daily life.

👉️ Catch this exhibition before it closes on Saturday 24 October.

Plan your visit via the Darebin Arts website:
https://tinyurl.com/4e4v4k9a
Credit: Heidi Schoenheimer. Soft Serve Gelati 2025 Photography: James Henry

30/09/2026

𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑀𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝐹𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒

Sha Sarwari's installation draws on the metaphor of the moth’s fatal attraction to light, to reflect the precarious and often tragic realities of the refugee experience.

Moths also suggest persistence, faith, and an instinctive movement toward light. In this sense, refugees are often compelled toward the perceived promise of the West — imagined as a place of safety, dignity, and freedom from war, persecution, and political instability.

Yet for many refugees, this promised refuge becomes another site of suffering. Escaping violence and human rights abuses, they are often met with political hostility, detention, discrimination, racialised media narratives, and social exclusion. The “light” that once symbolised hope can instead become a source of trauma and erasure.

Explore this powerful installation in person, showing now as a part of 𝐶ℎ𝑜𝑔ℎ چوغ a new exhibition curated by Alia Qasim Zada & Elyas Alavi. https://tinyurl.com/3hf9hw9y
Credit: Sha Sarwari. Like a Moth to a Flame 2019. Wooden chair, Perahan printed news archive. Courtesy of the artist 📸 James Henry

29/09/2026

Qigong and Walking Meditation is back! 📣

📆 Dates: Every Wednesday 14 October– 18 November
⏰ Time: 11:15am- 12:15pm
🎟️ Cost: FREE to attend! No booking required

Welcome the warmer mornings with a free, gentle exercise session! Starting in China over 2,000 years ago, Qigong is a gentle exercise where you move slowly and breathe deeply.

Try this ancient, holistic practice that brings the body, mind and breath together and enjoy a walking meditation around the beautiful Homestead gardens. All skill levels welcome, no experience necessary.

Presented by Get Active in Darebin and Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. Find out more via our website:
https://tinyurl.com/4a3tjxnz
Image credit: Courtesy Golden Flower Internal Arts and Holistic Fitness Darebin Leisure

Address

7 Prospect Hill Drive
Melbourne, VIC
3083

Opening Hours

Wednesday	11am - 4pm
Thursday	11am - 4pm
Friday	11am - 4pm
Saturday	11am - 4pm

Telephone

+61394961060

Website

http://arts.darebin.vic.gov.au/bundoorahomestead

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