WHEN | 8 JANUARY TO 2 FEBRUARY 2025
WHERE | RESIDENTS GALLERY
OPENING EVENT | 10 JANUARY - 6PM - 8PM
Join us at Montsalvat to celebrate Bronwyn's exhibition, featuring a special performance by "The Songstresses" Choral Group accompanied by harpist Vasudha Harte.
Bronwyn Calcutt is a Melbourne artist whose practice moves in a space between music and visual art. Whilst deeply embedded in the community as a musician and choir director, she aims to open creative connections between her art-forms, researching ways in which their abstract languages can interpenetrate and enrich each other.
Following from her previous exhibition at Montsalvat - The Pianola Collection in 2023 - she continues to develop visual works from vintage pianola scrolls, using their perforated musical codes to inspire and inform improvised visual landscapes.
From the music-made-visible of the scrolls she seeks out relationships between chords, colour, lyric and landscape, exploring the dual geometric and organic nature of music as an abstract visual world full of colour and sensation.
At the centre of the exhibit is a playable sculpture -The Piandelier – assembled from elements of a deconstructed piano and other domestic and natural objects. This will serve to accompany the special vocal performance at the opening event, and viewers are invited to gently play with this piece, exploring its sonic and kinetic possibilities.
Bronwyn Calcutt is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice traverses music, visual art and performance. Originally trained in architectural design and music, her work over forty years has embraced musical direction, set design and playwriting for professional theatre companies, performing one-woman shows that have toured nationally, production of albums of original music, and the formation and direction of community choirs.
Having recently completed a Master of Fine Art at RMIT, her current work aims to open hybrid spaces in which the languages of music and painting can interact and enrich each other. Having shown in several Melbourne group shows in recent years, this is her second solo show at Montsalvat Residents Gallery.
