By Associate Professor Bianca Hester

Books

Hester B, 2021, Groundwork, Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, https://perimetereditions.com/GROUNDWORK

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S; Poll M; Yusoff K; Beudel S, 2017, Converging in time, Hughes H; Day C; Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, (eds.), Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, https://osw.com.au/Converging-in-time-publication-2017

Book Chapters

Hester B, 2023, 'Beside these intricate extinctions', in Keogh T (ed.), Fossil Fables, The University of Sydney, Sydney, pp. 29 - 44

Hester B, 2022, 'Moving in memory of lava flows: between Te Kōpuke Mount St John and Te Tokaroa Meola Reef', in Crone B; Nightingale S; Stanton P (ed.), Fieldwork for Future Ecologies: Radical Practice for Art and Art-based Research, Onomatopee, The Netherlands, pp. 313 - 337, https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/fieldwork-for-future-ecologies/#publication_19543

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2020, 'The time of the temporary', in Everything is Temporary, Freerange Press, pp. 76 - 83, https://projectfreerange.com/freerange-journal/freerange-vol-12-everything-is-temporary/

Hester B, 2020, 'Collective Modulations', in Heijnen E; Bremmer M (ed.), Wicked Arts Assignments: Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education, Valiz, with Amsterdam University of the Arts, Amsterdam, https://www.valiz.nl/en/publications/wicked-arts-assignments.html

Hester B; Millner J, 2018, 'The practice of remaining perpetually contingent', in Millner J; Moore C (ed.), Feminist Perspectives on Art Contemporary Outtakes, Routledge, New York, pp. 79 - 91

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, 'Carbon Cycles', in Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, pp. 101 - 106

Hester B, 2016, 'CLUBSproject: Dedicated to the perpetually provisional', in Ulanda Blair ; Rosemary Forde ; Phip Murray (ed.), un Anthology 2004-2014: a decade of art and ideas, un Projects inc., Melbourne, pp. 577 - 589

Hester B; Crone B, 2014, 'Primordial Projection and Cinematic Site: A Conversation', in Crone B (ed.), The Cinemas Project, National Exhibitions Touring Support (NETS) Victoria c/o The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, pp. 61 - 69, http://www.thecinemasproject.com.au/cinemas-project-book/

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2013, 'Shaping Territories', in Hughes H; Barikin A (ed.), Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction, Surpllus, Melbourne, pp. 124 - 140, https://www.surpllus.com/

Hester B, 2008, 'Enabling Restraints', in McInnes V; Daw K (ed.), Bureau, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, pp. 16 - 22

Conference Papers

Hester B, 2021, 'Encountering lithic bodies: moving in memory of lava flows', ASLEC-ANZ (Association for the study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia and New Zealand), Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, presented at Conversations beyond human scales, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 23 November 2021 - 26 November 2021, https://beyond-human-scales.net/

Conference Presentations

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2022, 'Sedimentation of Relationalities', presented at Conversations with Extractivism, Melbourne, Hybrid, 15 July 2022 - 16 July 2022, https://www.monash.edu/mada/events/2022/Conversations-with....Extractivism

Hester B, 2014, 'Embodying convergences, caring to commit', presented at Curating Feminism, Sydney College of the Arts, 23 October 2014 - 26 October 2014, https://www.contemporaryartandfeminism.com/contemporary-art-and-feminism/curating-feminism

Hester B, 2014, 'A provisional context for discussion: thinking-making material relations, fashioning situations, and exhibiting practices in motion', presented at SITUATION: IDEA conference, Design Hub, RMIT, Melbourne, 31 July 2014 - 03 August 2014, https://idea-edu.com/symposiums/2014-situation/

Hester B, 2013, 'Shaggy Edge of Open', presented at AAANZ: Inter-discipine, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 07 December 2013 - 09 March 2013, http://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2013-conference/

Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance)

Hester B, 2024, UNSW galleries, Sydney, Publication: Dust of these domains, Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance), https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/programs/dust-of-these-domains

Hester B, 2014, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Publication: Courtyard loops, Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance), https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/bianca-hester

Hester B, 2014, Akaska Projects, Sydney, Publication: re-orchestrating objects, actions, Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance), http://home.alaskaprojects.com/Performance

Hester B, 2013, Arts House, Melbourne, Publication: approaching/departing four grounds, 23 March 2013, Editor(s): Matthews H, Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance), https://www.artshouse.com.au/events/actionresponse/

Hester B, 2012, supported by KUNCI, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Publication: Siang dan malam terjadi hanya dari sudut pandang orang di muka bumi, Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance)

Curatorial Outputs

Hester B; Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, Deeptime Coastline: walking series, exhibited at: Various sites across the Illawarra, 12 October 2024 - 20 October 2024, https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B; Beudel S; Poll M; Fischer L; Wallace G; Campbell B, 2015, Down City Streets, exhibited at: Sydney, 20 February 2015 - 30 November 2015, https://downcitystreets.com/

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2009, The West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial, exhibited at: multiple sites in West Brunswick, Melbourne, 21 March 2009 - 12 April 2009, http://www.openobject.org/wbst/?page_id=260

Hester B; Bird T; Panigirakis S; Kossloff L; Hill C; Consandine C; Usher M; Walter H; Keating M; McMahon K; Geikie S, 2002, CLUBS Project Inc., exhibited at: Builders Arms Hotel, Gertrude Street Fitzroy, Melbourne, 01 March 2002 - 01 June 2007

Theses / Dissertations

Hester B, 2007, Material Adventures, Spatial Productions: Manoeuvring Sculpture Towards a Proliferating Event, RMIT University

Creative Written Works

Hester B, 2020, Sandstone, Phillips J; Woodward M, (ed.), A Published Event, https://www.lostrocks.net/txt

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2019, Works, Working, Work, Writing & Concepts, van Schaik J, (ed.), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, https://www.artandaustralia.com/publishing/titles/writing-concepts-2017-volume-2

Hester B, 2011, a world, fully accessible by no living being, The Narrows, https://issuu.com/thenarrows/docs/hester-newsprint-final32pp-web

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2011, Big Log Book, Monash University Museum of Art, https://osw.com.au/Big-Log-Book-2011-1

Hester B; Bird T; Benjamin A; Nicholson T; Day C, 2010, actions will occur intermittently, Hester B; Day C; Engberg J, (eds.), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, https://content.acca.melbourne/legacy/files/2010_Bianca%20Hester_Catalogue_1.pdf

Hester B, 2009, Accommodating spaces, materials, projects, people, videos, actions, objects, thoughts: relatively, The Narrows

Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

Hester B, 2020, Sandstone: excerpts, FBI radio, Sydney, Published: 10 August 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://omny.fm/shows/canvas/ground-2-3-sand

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2020, Three thoughts about sculptural production: objects, material transformations, geo-social assemblages, "Spaced Apart" program from RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, Melbourne, Published: 29 July 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://spaced-apart.com/watch/osw

Hester B, 2020, Artist Voice: Bianca Hester, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Published: 25 May 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://www.mca.com.au/artist-voice/artist-voice-bianca-hester/

Creative Works (non-textual)

Hester B, 2025, Circuits of Solar Descent, Wollongong Sculpture in the Gardens, Wollongong Botanic Gardens, 01 April 2025 - 30 April 2025, medium: walks, two unmown grass circles; two cast bronze plates on concrete bases, set of twenty-five patinated bronze performance objects., at: https://wollongongbotanicgarden.com.au/events/sculpture-in-the-garden

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2025, Metabolic Scales, These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature, UQ Art Museum, 18 January 2025 - 14 June 2025, medium: Video and sculptural installation, at: https://art-museum.uq.edu.au/these-entanglements

Hester B, 2024, Lithic Bodies (Illawarra iteration), Lithic Bodies (Illawarra iteration), Clifton School of Arts, Clifton, 12 October 2024 - 27 October 2024, medium: Mixed media installation, at: https://www.biancahester.com/projects/lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, A scatter of particles in the geologic strata adjacent to the dead-zone, 252 million years, Lithic Bodies, UNSW galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Photographic print on laminated glass, galvanised steel, rubber, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Carbon afterlives, Lithic Bodies, UNSW galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Bronze sculpture, seawater, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Extinction Lines, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Video installation, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Fragments of plant life from both sides of the extinction boundary, summoned by the ground, Lithic Bodies, UNSW galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Patinated bronze with surface impressions of plant life from geologic periods including the Permian, Triassic, and Holocene, galvanised steel, neodymium magnets, blast furnace rubble, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Lithic Bodies, Lithic Bodies, UNSW galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Mixed media installation, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Lithic Bodies, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Video, sculpture, screenprint, photography, walking, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Ongoing archive of residues and material afterlives, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Photography, installation, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Registering survival at 252 million years in Gondwana, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Screenprint, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Replaced particle for particle through water’s unrelenting movement towards the lowest reaches of the ground, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Polymerised gypsum, reclaimed granulated blast furnace aggregate, sand, scrim, galvanised mesh, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Strata, Lithic Bodies, UNSW galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Screenprint installation (22 screen prints, galvanised steel shelving), at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2023, Metabolic Scales (video), Earthern, Cement Fondu, 13 October 2023 - 03 December 2023, medium: Video, at: https://cementfondu.org/better-nature-earthen/

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