Exhibition at Bunjil Place, Nee Warren

A highly recommended exhibition – about things floral. The title being Floribunda.

The exhibition is at Bunjil Place Gallery in Narre Warren (Melbourne south eastern suburb) curated by David Sequeira. Dates  29 March 2025 – till 20th July 2025.

The exhibition title is a combination of the Latin words for ‘abundance’ and ‘flower’. The exhibition contains one of the largest loans from the National Gallery of Victoria.

From the offical spin: The exhibition will display the entanglement between humans and flowers, how both are connected through life, religious rituals, death, romance and, of course, art.

 

Here are some pics from the exhibition. I could not find any online information on who all the artists are. So  have left out any attributions.

This main wall is packed with still life/ flower paintings. Absolutely fabulous.

 

 

Within a structure in the middle of the room, this illuminated work with containers holding plants. Saw a version of this at the recent NGV contemporary blockbuster exhibition.
It is interesting, sort of.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There’s loads of beautiful things to take in – so allow plenty of time to wander slowly past individual paintings and then all the other items.

Best of luck dealing with the labelling.

For instance the above wall panel is for the left half of the paintings. This means when you look at one of the 22 works and want to know more, you have to first work out its position in relation to the whole and then walk back to the panel to the left.

And then repeat all that for the works to the right. It is hard work and takes away from the pleasure of looking at and taking in the works.

The NGV uses this style of labelling for works packed together. It is very annoying. Obviously the exhibition designers like it because it is neat and removed all those labels that would otherwise clutter up the display. For the viewer it does not work as you end up spending far too much time walking back and forth trying to solve the puzzle of who did what.

Dear NGV, there is a better way of doing this!

BUT – having said that, the exhibition is worth the visit.

Here’s the online information – click here

I would rate the exhibition as 4 out of 5 stars.