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Art for the People: Bendigo Art Gallery 1887 - 2013

This electronic publication accompanies the exhibition Art for the People: Bendigo Art Gallery 1887 - 2013. Bendigo Art Gallery, established in 1887, has played, and continues to play an important role in the local Bendigo community. The Gallery has existed for the delight of the people since a desire for a Gallery was expressed in Mayor P Hayes letter (11 May 1887) to the principal citizens to ‘prove of great service to the young people growing up around us’. Considered a cultivating and educating strength of the community, the Gallery endeavours to collect, preserve and display works of art … for the pleasure and education of the public. In more recent years it has positioned itself as the most profiled and significant cultural venue in regional Australia. Drawing on the archives of Bendigo Art Gallery, this exhibition was curated to offer a glimpse into the story and journey so far of this much loved and respected people’s gallery.

This electronic publication accompanies the exhibition Art for the People: Bendigo Art Gallery 1887 - 2013.

Bendigo Art Gallery, established in 1887, has played, and continues to play an important role in the local Bendigo community. The Gallery has existed for the delight of the people since a desire for a Gallery was expressed in Mayor P Hayes letter (11 May 1887) to the principal citizens to ‘prove of great service to the young people growing up around us’. Considered a cultivating and educating strength of the community, the Gallery endeavours to collect, preserve and display works of art … for the pleasure and education of the public. In more recent years it has positioned itself as the most profiled and significant cultural venue in regional Australia. Drawing on the archives of Bendigo Art Gallery, this exhibition was curated to offer a glimpse into the story and journey so far of this much loved and respected people’s gallery.

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a satellite space of<br />

<strong>Bendigo</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong><br />

42 View Street<br />

<strong>Bendigo</strong>, Victoria 3550 Australia<br />

www.bendigoartgallery.com.au<br />

Published <strong>2013</strong><br />

Copyright © <strong>Bendigo</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />

This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under<br />

<strong>the</strong> Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any<br />

process without prior written permission.<br />

Typeset and printed in Australia by <strong>Bendigo</strong> Modern Press<br />

www.bmp.com.au<br />

National Library of Australia<br />

Cataloguing-in-Publication data:<br />

Bloomfield, Simone<br />

<strong>Art</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> people: <strong>Bendigo</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> <strong>1887</strong>-<strong>2013</strong><br />

Simone Bloomfield, Karen Quinlan, photographer Ian Hill.<br />

ISBN: 9780949215734 (pbk)<br />

<strong>Bendigo</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong>--History.<br />

<strong>Art</strong> museums--Victoria--<strong>Bendigo</strong>--History.<br />

O<strong>the</strong>r Authors/Contributors:<br />

Quinlan, Karen<br />

Hill, Ian<br />

<strong>Bendigo</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong><br />

708.99454<br />

Exhibition venue:<br />

Post Office <strong>Gallery</strong>, 51–67 Pall Mall, <strong>Bendigo</strong>.<br />

Exhibition dates:<br />

16 August <strong>2013</strong>–27 January 2014<br />

<strong>Art</strong> <strong>for</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> people:<br />

<strong>Bendigo</strong><br />

<strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong><br />

<strong>1887</strong> – <strong>2013</strong><br />

Post Office <strong>Gallery</strong> and <strong>Bendigo</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> are proudly<br />

owned and operated by <strong>the</strong> City of Greater <strong>Bendigo</strong>.<br />

Unknown photographer<br />

<strong>Bendigo</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong><br />

Media<br />

Corporate<br />

sponsor<br />

sponsor<br />

1890s<br />

<strong>Bendigo</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> archives<br />

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