The Bund Project
The Bund Project is artists Linelle Stepto and Catherine Lane. Drawn together by shared interests, a love of nature and close geographical positioning, Stepto and Lane have joined forces on various artworks and projects since 2011.
Linelle Stepto is a visual artist who uses mixed media to create contemporary artworks exploring the animal:human interface. Stepto is based at Ocean Shores on the far north coast of NSW where she immerses herself in studies of the natural world adjacent to (and within) the urban environment.
In 2013, the pair undertook an artist’ residency at Haefliger’s Cottage in Hill End, courtesy of the Bathurst Regional Gallery. Both artists have colonial roots in the old gold mining district, particularly Linelle, whose colonial family residence has now been turned into a museum. During this time, they generated ideas on site, energized by the location and the history of place. The intense and intimate living and working conditions concentrated ideas which continue to incubate and inform new projects in an on-going way.
Post Colonial Colony – detail. Site specific installation comprising 120 flyscreen fruit bats.
Exhibited: SWELL, Katoomba and Woodford
Colonial red cedar table, roo skin perforated with muslin dyed with introduced hawthorn, taxidermied Indian Mynahs, rabbit and grey squirrel, faux Japonaise porcelain vase, faux Dutch whale oil lamp, papier mache new world globe, Australian native flowers made from rabbit fur and cane toad skin, ink well, parchment.
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