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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creator of
Drought: The Murray's Estuary
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URL
http://www.bonitaely.com/site/
 
creator of
Murray River Series
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URL
http://www.bonitaely.com/site/?page_id=10
 
creator of
Lake Thunder
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URL
http://www.bonitaely.com/site/?page_id=33

Thuy Tien Lake, Thien An, Hue, Vietnam. Tube steel, photovoltaic paint; 6 metres high. Public sculpture commission, 4th International Sculpture Symposium, Hue , Vietnam.

 
creator of
Sumi Brush Painting
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URL
http://www.bonitaely.com/site/?page_id=34
 
creator of
Bonsai Landscape
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URL
http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/SculpturePrize05/Detail.cfm?MnuID=2&SubMnuID=1&BioArtistIRN=12964&IRN=139760

Installation for the Australian exhibition, Outside Inside: Fragments in Place, Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

 
creator of
Longevity: Scissors and Sickles
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URL
http://www.bonitaely.com/site/?page_id=31

City Hall, Hue, Vietnam. Sand caste bronze; 1.2M diam. X 2.2 M H. Public sculpture commission, 3rd International Sculpture Symposium: Hue, Vietnam.

 
creator of
Juggernaut
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URL
http://www.bonitaely.com/site/?page_id=30

This work was shown at the Asian Biennale of Contemporary Art, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Customs House, Sydney and the Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.

 
creator of
Light House
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URL
http://www.bonitaely.com/site/?page_id=30

Playground of the Children’s Cultural Centre, Le Loi Street, Hue. Brick, reinforced concrete, ceramic, paint. Approx. 5.5 metres high, 1.5 metres diameter. Built using traditional Vietnamese building methods and materials, Public sculpture commission, architectural folly. 1st International Sculpture Symposium: Hue, Vietnam.

 
creator of
Tiananmen Square The People's Army
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URL
http://www.bonitaely.com/site/?page_id=29
 
creator of
Dogwoman makes history
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URL
http://www.bonitaely.com/site/?page_id=29
 
creator of
Controlled Atmosphere
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URL
http://www.bonitaely.com/site/?page_id=29
 
creator of
Dogwoman communicates with the younger generation
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URL
http://www.bonitaely.com/site/?page_id=29

See also Cat Moore’s Dissonance…., p. 257

 
creator of
Breadline
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creator of
Murray River Punch (performance)
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URL
http://www.bonitaely.com/site/?page_id=18

This piece was also performed in 1981 at Rundle Street Mall, Adelaide, during the artist’s Experimental Art Foundation residency. George Paton and Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University. Women at Work, a festival of women’s performance art.

 
creator of
Murray Rivers Edge
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URL
http://www.bonitaely.com/site/?page_id=25
 
creator of
Mt Feathertop
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URL
http://www.bonitaely.com/site/?page_id=27

First shown at the Mildura Sculpture Triennial 1975

 
creator of
C20th Mythological Beasts: At home with the Locust People, and Sunset Video
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URL
http://www.videoartchive.org.au/bely/sunset.html

The installation and video were first shown in the Post Object Show at the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.

 

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  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
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  • National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare (collected in)
  • Narodna Gallerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia (collected in)
  • Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia (collected in)
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (collected in)
  • National Museum and Art Gallery, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (collected in)
  • National Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ (collected in)
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (collected in)
  • National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico (collected in)
  • National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan (collected in)
  • Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, Rome, Italy (collected in)
  • Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (collected in)
  • National Library of Indonesia, Jakarta (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India (collected in)
  • National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece (collected in)
  • British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London, UK (collected in)
  • Staatliche Museum, West Berline, Germany (collected in)
  • Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France (collected in)
  • Central Art Gallery, Beijing, China (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (collected in)
  • Museo de Arts de Sao Paolo, Brazil (collected in)
  • Perci Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD (collected in)
  • Naracoorte Art Gallery, Naracoorte, SA (collected in)
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  • City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC (collected in)
  • Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA (collected in)
  • Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS (collected in)
  • The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT (collected in)
  • Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC (collected in)
  • Art Bank, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Victorian Law Courts, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
  • University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
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  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)