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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exhibited at
Urban Screens Melbourne 08 (USM08)
Date
2008
Place
Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.milanigallery.com.au/artist/bonita-ely?do=cv
exhibited at
When You Think About Art
Date
2008
Place
Ewing and George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Heat: Art and Climate Change
Date
2008
Place
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Murray's Edge
Date
2008
Place
Milani Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Also shown in 2009 at Art Gallery of New South Wales/COFA Exhibition Space, COFA, UNSW, Sydney.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Henri Warland Art Prize
Date
2007
Place
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Five by Five
Date
2007
Place
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Procession
Date
2006
Place
Mai's Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Cleveland Street Project
Date
2006
Place
Performance Space, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
States of Transformation
Date
2005
Place
College of Fine Arts Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
National Sculpture Prize
Date
2005
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Even
Date
2004
Place
Mildura Arts Centre, Lake Benenee
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Wildlife Documentary
Date
2004
Place
Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Also shown in 2005 at Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Outside In
Date
2003
Place
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Reverb
Date
2003
Place
Mai's Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Outside Inside: Fragments of Place
Date
2003
Place
Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
3 Foot Square
Date
2002
Place
College Of Fine Arts [COFA], University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
BORDERPANIC
Date
2002
Place
Performance Space and Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Inside Mawson's Sleeping Bag: the Poetics of Heroism
Date
2000
Place
Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Description

In 2001 this was also shown at Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; & Stills Gallery, Sydney

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Shifting Currents
Date
1999
Place
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
We Are Australian
Date
1999
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

travelling

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Juggernaut [Asian Biennale of Contemporary Art]
Date
1999
Place
Dhaka, Bangladesh; Customs House, Sydney, NSW; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Occurred at three different venues that year.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Acid Test
Date
1998
Place
RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, VIC
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Private Parts
Date
1998
Place
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Light House (Public commission)
Date
1998
Place
Hue, Vietnam
Description

2nd International Sculpture Symposium

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Gift For India
Date
1997
Place
Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, Lalit Kala Galleries, New Delhi, India; Gallery Chemould, Bombay, India
Description
Type
Exhibition
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Related stub person groups
  • College Of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (associate of)
  • Milani Gallery, Brisbane, QLD (associate of)
Related works
  • Controlled Atmosphere (creator of)
  • Drought: The Murray's Estuary (creator of)
  • Murray River Series (creator of)
  • Sumi Brush Painting (creator of)
  • Lake Thunder (creator of)
  • Bonsai Landscape (creator of)
  • Longevity: Scissors and Sickles (creator of)
  • Juggernaut (creator of)
  • Light House (creator of)
  • Tiananmen Square The People's Army (creator of)
  • Dogwoman makes history (creator of)
  • Dogwoman communicates with the younger generation (creator of)
  • Breadline (creator of)
  • Murray River Punch (performance) (creator of)
  • Mt Feathertop (creator of)
  • Murray Rivers Edge (creator of)
  • C20th Mythological Beasts: At home with the Locust People, and Sunset Video (creator of)
Related collections
  • University of California, Los Angeles, USA (collected in)
  • 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)
  • Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW (collected in)
  • 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)
  • untitled (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • Henri Worland Memorial Arts Prize (received)
  • 1985 Visual Arts Board, Australia Council - Kiffi Rubbo Memorial Art Award Grant (received)
  • Short listed - National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (received)
Related events
  • Urban Screens Melbourne 08 (USM08) (exhibited at)
  • When You Think About Art (exhibited at)
  • Heat: Art and Climate Change (exhibited at)
  • Henri Warland Art Prize (exhibited at)
  • Five by Five (exhibited at)
  • Procession (exhibited at)
  • The Cleveland Street Project (exhibited at)
  • States of Transformation (exhibited at)
  • National Sculpture Prize (exhibited at)
  • Even (exhibited at)
  • Outside In (exhibited at)
  • Reverb (exhibited at)
  • 3 Foot Square (exhibited at)
  • BORDERPANIC (exhibited at)
  • DBRef(u'xactivity', ObjectId('4da19591b538b73d93004974')) (exhibited at)
  • Shifting Currents (exhibited at)
  • We Are Australian (exhibited at)
  • The Acid Test (exhibited at)
  • Private Parts (exhibited at)
  • Gift For India (exhibited at)
  • Parking (exhibited at)
  • 25 Years of Performance Art in Australia (exhibited at)
  • The Women's Show (exhibited at)
  • The River (exhibited at)
  • Girls! Girls! Girls! (exhibited at)
  • Spirit Level: Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial (exhibited at)
  • Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • Australian Prints (exhibited at)
  • In Transit (exhibited at)
  • Bicentennial Print Portfolio (exhibited at)
  • Making Appearances (exhibited at)
  • Performance Festival (exhibited at)
  • Continuum, Survey of Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • Perspecta (exhibited at)
  • 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)
  • Outside Inside: Fragments of Place (exhibited at)
  • Inside Mawson's Sleeping Bag: the Poetics of Heroism (exhibited at)
  • Juggernaut [Asian Biennale of Contemporary Art] (exhibited at)
  • Light House (Public commission) (exhibited at)
  • Artists in the House (exhibited at)
  • Untitled Event (exhibited at)
  • Sleepers/Ties I, II, and III (exhibited at)
  • Histories (exhibited at)
  • "We Live To Be Surprised" (exhibited at)
  • Bellas Gallery (exhibited at)
  • Untitled Event (exhibited at)
  • Phototropic (exhibited at)
  • Dogwoman Makes History (exhibited at)
  • The Murray River Project (exhibited at)
  • Performance, Jabiluka UO2 (exhibited at)
  • Untitled Event (exhibited at)
  • Controlled Atmosphere (exhibited at)
  • The Murray River Project (exhibited at)
  • Mt Feathertop Project (exhibited at)
  • At Home With The Locust People (exhibited at)
  • Untitled Event (exhibited at)