By Associate Professor 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/

Hester B, 2023, Dust of these domains, SITEWORKS, Bundanon, 26 February 2023 - 27 February 2023, at: https://www.bundanon.com.au/whats-on/dust-of-these-domains-bianca-hester-performance/

Hester B, 2022, Registering inscrutable forces from the edges of time, 2022 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, 12 October 2022 - 20 November 2022, at: https://www.woollahragallery.com.au/whats-on/prizes/woollahra-small-sculpture-prize/2022/bianca-hester

Hester B, 2022, Reading Walking Lithic Bodies, Perspectives on Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, 30 April 2022 - 30 April 2022, at: https://www.mca.com.au/whats-on/reading-walking-lithic-bodies/

Hester B, 2021, Constellating bodies in temporary correspondence, Perspectives on Place: Works from the MCA Collection relating to land, mapping and environmental change., Museum of Contemporary Art, 26 February 2021 - 01 March 2023, medium: sculpture, video, installation, image, at: https://www.mca.com.au/artists-works/exhibitions/mca-collection-perspectives-on-place/

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Open Spatial Workshop: Converging in time, Open Spatial Workshop: Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 10 April 2017, at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Cape Liptrap, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Cape Liptrap formation (Gippsland, Victoria on Boon Wurrung, Bunurong and Gunaikurnai country). Video: 4.55 minutes, at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Fossilised Kauri Log, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Papercrete platform with fossilised Kauri log (23 million years old) collected from Loy Yang open cut mine (Gunaikurnai Country) on loan from Museum Victoria, 7 bronze casts of meteorite impressions, pine, bronze., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Graphite Ball, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Polymer activated gypsum, fibreglass, glue, graphite., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Hanging Form Incorporating Natural and Artificial Tektites, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Steel, Perspex, tektites (on loan from Museum Victoria), fittings., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Linear Structure for a Room, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Polymer activated gypsum, fibreglass, paint, mild steel, found concrete form, molten scoria form, Murchison meteorite (on loan from Museum Victoria from Ngurai-illamwurrung Country), blown glass form, basalt log (on loan from Museum Victoria, collected from Footscray circa 1860’s), lava bomb., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Pothole Assemblage, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop, at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Saléeite Crystals, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Blown glass forms, lead caps and saléeite crystals collected from Ranger uranium mine, Northern Territory (Mirarr Country), mild steel, steel wire, fittings., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Sand Particles at Big Drift, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Video of sand particles from ‘Big Drift’, Wilson’s Promontory (Boon Wurrung, Bunurong and Gunaikurnai Country). Video: 3.06 minutes., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Shelf of artefacts, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Crinoid (sea lily) fossil (416-443 million years old), Silurian era collected from Brunswick clay pits circa 1900’s (Wurundjeri Country); vitrified brick for chemical works made by Hoffman’s Brickworks collected 1923; and greenstone from Wil-im-ee Moor-ring / Mt William, Lancefield (Wurundjeri Country) collected 1853-68, MDF and Perspex., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Slumped Pasticine Form, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Slumped plasticine form and steel models of crystals including graphite [brown coal], vivianite, quartz, copper, saléeite, iron [Murchison meteorite], hermatite [banded iron], jadeite [Victorian greenstone], sanidine [lava bomb], olivine [basalt tree], calcite [trilobite eyes]., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Trilobite with Crystal Eyes, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Trilobite fossil, Cambrian era (488-542 million years ago), mild steel and stainless steel plate, fittings., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop

Hester B, 2016, Constellating bodies in temporary correspondance, NSW Visual artist fellowship exhibition, Artbank, 01 December 2016 - 27 February 2017, at: http://artbank.gov.au/exhibitions/nsw-visual-artist-fellowship/

Hester B, 2016, Constellating bodies in temporary correspondance, Endless Circulation: Tarrawarra Biennial 2016, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 19 August 2016 - 06 November 2016, at: http://www.twma.com.au/exhibition/tarrawarra-biennial-2016-endless-circulation/

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2015, GLIMPSE, Feeling Material, c3 contemporary Artspace, 28 October 2015 - 22 November 2015, at: https://www.c3artspace.com.au/feeling-material/

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2015, FAULT, Performing Mobilities: Traces, Storey Hall, RMIT, 25 September 2015 - 24 October 2015, at: http://www.performingmobilities.net/symposium/traces_gallery/fault/

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2015, Anthropocite, Earth Sciences Garden, Monash Earth Sciences Garden, 15 September 2015 - 01 October 2029, at: https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/9288

Hester B, 2015, Cut continuum, The Material Turn, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, 10 September 2015 - 03 October 2015, at: http://vca.unimelb.edu.au/engage/margaret-lawrence-gallery/the-material-turn

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2015, SPLINTER, From the collection: Gertrude Regional Residencies: Chapter 2, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, 01 August 2015 - 20 September 2015, at: https://latroberegionalgallery.com/project/from-the-collection/

Hester B, 2015, Movements Materialising Momentarily, Movements Materialising Momentarily, St Paul Street Gallery, 31 July 2015 - 11 September 2015, medium: Collaborative walking event, Installation, Sculpture, Video, at: https://stpaulst.aut.ac.nz/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/2015/past-2

Hester B, 2015, Fashioning propositions, Art as a verb, Artspace, Sydney, 04 June 2015 - 26 August 2015, at: https://www.artspace.org.au/program/exhibitions/2015/art-as-a-verb/

Hester B, 2014, Performance Objects, HOLD, Sarah Scout Presents, 10 October 2014 - 08 November 2014, at: http://www.sarahscoutpresents.com/web/hold-akira-akira-and-bianca-hester/

Hester B, 2014, Fashioning propositions, Art as a Verb, Monash University Museum of Art, 03 October 2014 - 16 December 2014, at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2014/art-as-a-verb

Hester B, 2014, Re-orchestrating: objects, actions, Restaging, Restaging, Alaska Projects, 28 September 2014 - 28 September 2014, medium: sculptural objects, construction materials, bodies, performative action, at: http://home.alaskaprojects.com/Performance

Hester B, 2014, Hoops: sound tests, performances, So long as you move: recent video works form the Monash University Collection, Ark Gallerie, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 15 August 2014 - 15 September 2014, at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/offsite-and-touring/2014/so-long-as-you-move

Hester B, 2014, contexts, cuts, convergences, SITUATION, Design Hub, RMIT, Melbourne, 31 July 2014 - 03 August 2014, at: https://idea-edu.com/symposiums/2014-situation/

Hester B, 2014, Sonic Objects, Solar Objects: Variously, The Cinemas Project, Warrnambool, Victoria, 04 July 2014 - 05 July 2014, at: http://www.thecinemasproject.com.au/project/

Hester B, 2014, Fashioning Discontinuities, 19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire, Sydney, various sites, 21 March 2014 - 09 June 2014, medium: sculpture, performance, photography, installation, texts, symposium, at: https://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/19bos/artists/hester/

Hester B, 2013, Hoops, sound tests, performances, documents (2011-2013), Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, 22 November 2013 - 23 March 2014, at: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/media_release/melbourne-now-first-artists-and-projects-announced/

Hester B, 2012, only from the perspective of a viewer situated on the surface of the earth does day and night occur, ACCA pop-up program, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, The Common Guild, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Glasgow, 20 April 2012 - 07 May 2012, at: https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/acca-pop-up-program-glasgow/

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2012, Lumpen Falls, Lumpen Falls, Conical, 03 March 2012 - 24 March 2012, at: http://www.conical.org.au/archive/index.html#

Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2011, Big Log Jam, Big Log Jam, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, 25 November 2011 - 06 December 2011

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