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
Date
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
Date
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)
Date
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
Date
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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  • Performance Festival (exhibited at)
  • Continuum, Survey of Australian Art (exhibited at)
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  • 15 Sculptors (exhibited at)
  • The Security Show (exhibited at)
  • The Women's Show (exhibited at)
  • Women's Postal Event (exhibited at)
  • Post Object Show (exhibited at)
  • Three Statements on Environment (exhibited at)
  • The Grid Show (exhibited at)
  • Untitled Event (exhibited at)
  • The Murray's Edge (exhibited at)
  • Wildlife Documentary (exhibited at)
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