Bundanon

Sensitively embracing the existing landscape and its ecology, the Bridge is a 160-metre-long by 9-metre-wide structure that spans the space of a gully. Designed to respond to current and future climatic conditions, Kerstin Thompson drew inspiration from rural Australia’s trestle flood bridges.

On select weekends throughout the year visitors to Bundanon have the opportunity to stay the night on the Bridge and experience Kerstin Thompson’s architecture for themselves.

Read more about the Bridge’s architecture here.

Michael Andrews has a history of working in environmental management with Conservation Volunteers Australia, the Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority (now Local Land Services) and Bathurst Regional Council. He is a qualified in Environmental Science, Horticulture, Adult Education and Natural and Cultural Resource Management.

At Bundanon, Michael Andrews work has focused on Landcare initiatives to increase biodiversity, capture carbon and reconnect native habitat on the Shoalhaven River. This work, particularly unique for a cultural organisation, demonstrates the leadership role the arts can play in foregrounding the importance of protecting the environment for future generations.

A subterranean Art Museum sits at the heart of the new Bundanon. Sensitively embracing the existing landscape and its ecology, the design responds to current and future climatic conditions.

On display in the Art Museum from the 6 July-13 October will be Early Light: Rethinking Australian landscapes, featuring Arthur Boyd’s 1984 commission for the Arts Centre Melbourne, in conversation with works by environmentally-engaged Australian artists from the same period.

Learn more about the exhibition.

Executive Chef Douglas Innes-Will oversees all catering at Bundanon and the Ramox Café, bringing his local eye and longstanding knowledge of South Coast produce.

Douglas works with local purveyors to source sustainable ingredients for signature dishes and to ensure quality produce is sourced from the surrounding Shoalhaven region.

Dimitri Douchin, PhD is an astrophysicist, cultural astronomer and TEDx speaker. He is also the co-founder of Blue Mountains Stargazing (Bronze Winner of 2023 NSW Tourism Awards in the Tour Operator category) with his fiancée Caroline. They are based in St Georges Basin in Jervis Bay.

Join local instructor Anna Smallwood for a morning Vinyasa Flow class. Designed to sustain concentration and build awareness in the body, this class welcomes all bodies and levels of ability.

Anna Smallwood completed a Bachelor of Dance at the Victorian College of The Arts and has always maintained a yoga practice while working as a dancer. Anna immediately fell in love with Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow practices, as they promote freedom through movement, yet unlike dance are driven by the breath.

Anna completed her yoga teacher training at Brahmani Yoga in Goa, India, in 2005. She has since returned to India many times to both teach at Brahmani Yoga and to deepen her own yoga practice. Anna is a registered teacher with Yoga Alliance (ERYT 500) and holds a Level 2 teacher certification with Yoga Australia. Her favourite pose is the cosmic egg.

Create a visual record of your time at Bundanon using experimental natural drawing materials and abstract mark-making. No art experience necessary.

Make your own paints using raw materials foraged from Bundanon’s rich landscape, with approval from First Nations Custodians, including products of extreme weather events (bushfire charcoal, riverbank silt, ochre clays collected from the roots of fallen trees after storms). Considering both personal and cultural associations between mood and colour, create your own visual ‘weather report’ to document your Bundanon experience.