Bonita Ely b. 1946

  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Video Artist)
Bonita Ely established her reputation as an environmental artist in the early 1970s through her work on the Murray Darling rivers. She has a diverse practice across various media and has often addressed feminist, environmental and socio-political issues. Dr Ely is Head of the Sculpture, Performance and Installation Department at COFA, University of New South Wales, where she is a founding member of the Environmental Research Institute for Art (ERIA).
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Name
Bonita Ely
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Performance Artist)
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Artist (Sculptor)
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Artist (Photographer)
  • Artist (Video Artist)
Other Occupation
  • Head, College of Fine Art's Sculpture, Performance and Installation Area
  • Senior Lecturer (ANZSIC code: 8102)
Birth date
1946
Birth place
Mildura, VIC
Active Period
  • 1969-
Residence
  • Sydney, NSW
Training
  • PhD, 2002 - 2009 University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW
  • Master of Fine Arts (Research), Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University, Sydney, NSW
  • Diploma of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Prahran College of Fine Arts, Melbourne, VIC
  • 1965 - 1966 Caufield Technical College
Languages
  • French

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  • Outside Inside: Fragments of Place (exhibited at)
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  • 3 Foot Square (exhibited at)
  • BORDERPANIC (exhibited at)
  • Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002 (None)
  • Histories in the Making (None)
  • Inside Mawson's Sleeping Bag: the Poetics of Heroism (exhibited at)
  • Spitting and Biting (None)
  • Shifting Currents (exhibited at)
  • We Are Australian (exhibited at)
  • Juggernaut [Asian Biennale of Contemporary Art] (exhibited at)
  • The Acid Test (exhibited at)
  • Private Parts (exhibited at)
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