Sunday 19th February

An installation and fun day for the whole family when the surrounds of the Gallery are converted into a Beach, complete with Sand, Surfboards, Hot Dogs and Hawaiian shirts.

Bungendore will become a beach for the day on Sunday 19th February from 10am to 3pm when Bungendore Wood Works Gallery presents "BEACHED IN BUNGENDORE."

The day's activities will include: an historic surfboard display from the collection of the Gallery's Exhibition Coordinator; an actual beach of sand imported all the way from Stockton, near Newcastle; dance demonstrations and lessons on how to do the Surfers Stomp, the Twist and the Limbo, all favourites of the golden days of surfing, the 1960s.

Dance and sing along to the sounds of the Beach Boys, King of the Surf Guitar Dick Dale, the Surfaris, Jan & Dean and the great Australian surf rockers The Atlantics, Little Pattie, GangaJang, Richard Clapton, The Deltones and many others.

A special feature will be demonstrations and lessons on Fire Twirling (without fire of course) for all comers.

The kids, young and old will be able to play in the sand dune, dig with buckets and spades, and take a splash in the mini-ocean.

And for the hungry beachgoer there will be hot dogs, fizzy drinks and ice creams catered by the 1st Bungendore Scout Group. The trees will be alive with the sights of Hawaiian surf shirts, wear your favourite surf or Hawaiian shirt and the best will win a prize.

This will be a fun event for all the family so come along any time through the day to Bungendore Beach on the Kings Highway in Bungendore Village.

Recognised as one of the most dynamic and exciting guitar ensembles, the Australian Guitar Duo has performed throughout the world, including appearances at the New York Guitar Duo Festival in New York City, Project Canción Española in Spain, Festival de Musique Classique in France, and the Mid-America Guitar Ensemble Festival in Illinois, in addition to numerous cities throughout Australia.

Performing a mixture of contemporary Australian compositions and standard works from the guitar duo repertoire, the Australian Guitar Duo consists of respected soloists Rupert Boyd and Jacob Cordover. They met and formed a duo in the year 2000 while studying under renowned Australian guitarist Timothy Kain at the Australian National University School of Music.

The Australian Guitar Duo has been broadcast on radio stations throughout Australia and the United States, and was a prizewinner of the chamber music division of the Australian Guitar Competition.

Saturday 17th March 8pm 
Octagon ArtSpace Bungendore Wood Works Gallery
Tickets $30. Call 6238 1682 to purchase tickets. Reserved seating will be assigned at the time of booking.

Café Wood Works will be open from 6pm prior to the concert serving dinner. Bookings are essential on 6238 1688.

Listen to tracks and learn more about the Australian Guitar Duo at australianguitarduo.com

Pre ticket reservations are available now for the David Pereira 2012 series. You can pre-book your tickets and specific seats for the 2012 series by calling us on 6238 1682 or email on gallery@bwoodworks.com.au.

The 2012 Series Performers and Dates will be listed on the site when arranged in February 2012. Reserved seat holders will receive details by newsletter and in the mail. Details and dates son fpr cpncerts in August and October.

Read more about the concert series

David Pereira is one of Australia's most accomplished cellists. Widely experienced, he continues to evolve as a player, teacher and composer. His playing aims for perfect listening and emotional responsiveness, uncompromised by thought or technical limitation.

Bungendore Wood Works Gallery is proud to be host for the David Pereira 2011 Cello-focused Duo Chamber Concerts featuring David Pereira on Cello with three featured accompanists Alice Giles on Harp, Adrian Walter on Classical Guitar and Geoffrey Lancaster on Fortepiano.

The concerts in March, July and November build on the success of the initial solo cello concert by David Pereira in the Gallery’s Octagon ArtSpace in late 2010 before a sold-out audience. The concert series offers friendliness and intimacy in an acoustically perfect venue, presenting music of a rigorous high quality aimed especially at passionate and dedicated listeners.

Bookings are on a reserved seating basis and strictly limited to 80. Tickets are $44 for each concert or $120 for the three concerts if booking for the full series at the Gallery or on 6238 1682

Café Woodworks will be open from 6pm prior to each concert. Bookings are essential on 6238 1688

Geoffrey LancasterCONCERT THREE
Thursday November 3 at 8pm.

David Pereira on cello will be joined by Geoffrey Lancaster on fortepiano in a performance of the Beethoven Cello Sonata Cycle.

Associate Professor Dr Geoffrey Lancaster AM, Bachelor of Arts (Music) (ANU); Master of Music (University of Tasmania); Doctor of Philosophy (Sydney University); Postgraduate Fortepiano Specialist Study (Royal Conservatory, The Hague)
For the past 30 years, Geoffrey Lancaster has been at the forefront of the historically-informed performance practice movement.

Geoffrey Lancaster is Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of La Cetra Barockorchester Basel. He has appeared as conductor or soloist with all of the Symphony Australia orchestras and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Geoffrey has been frequent guest Director with the Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players since 1987. He is also Artistic Director and fortepianist with Ensemble of the Classic Era.
The most distinguished Australian pianist of his generation, Lancaster’s recent international engagements include appearances as soloist with the Gürzenich Orchestra Köln, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble 415 of Geneva, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra of Toronto, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. This season he has already performed to critical acclaim as soloist at the Alte Oper Frankfurt; the Auditorio y Centro de Congresos Victor Villegas in Murcia, Spain; Hatchlands Park in Surrey; De Doelen in Rotterdam, the Music Centre Vredenberg in Utrecht, and the Kölner Philharmonie.

As a recording artist, Geoffrey’s 30 CDs have won many awards including a Gramophone award for Best Recording, the ARIA Best Classical Recording, and Soundscapes Editor’s Choice. Geoffrey is currently recording the complete keyboard sonatas of Joseph Haydn for the Melba label. He has also recorded for ABC Classics, ABC Classics ‘Antipodes’, Tall Poppies, Sony Classical, and Supraphon.
Geoffrey Lancaster was the first Australian to win a major international keyboard competition, receiving First Prize in the 23rd Festival van Vlaanderen International Mozart Fortepiano Competition, Brugge.
An inspiring teacher and public intellectual, Lancaster undertakes regular residencies at significant European conservatoria including: the Royal Conservatorium, the Hague; the Sweelinck Conservatorium, Amsterdam; Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music; the Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg; and the Basel Musik Akademie. He also facilitates, conducts and teaches on a regular basis for the Australian National Academy of Music.

In 1996, Geoffrey Lancaster was Associate Professor at the Royal College of Music, London. Since 2002 he has been at the Australian National University where he is Professor, and since 1999 has been visiting Professor of fortepiano at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland.
Lancaster received the Australian Artists Creative Fellowship from the Commonwealth of Australia for his outstanding artistic contribution to the nation. He was subsequently awarded the HC Coombs Creative Fellowship by the Australian National University. In 2006 Geoffrey Lancaster was named Australian of the Year for the Australian Capital Territory, and was awarded the Order of Australia for service to music and music education. In 2007, Geoffrey was appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Tasmania, and was elected a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators.

He has been an ANU School of Music faculty member since 2002.

Now in its 6th year, the Fireside Festival is well on its way to becoming one of Canberra’s most popular winter events. The month-long festival, will be held in August and hosted by members of The Poacher’s Way consortium across a diverse range of lifestyle, food and tourism venues. The Fireside Festival is a Canberra and Region Poacher’s Trail initiative. Bungendore Wood Work’s contribution to the Festival was a “Burning of the Totems” in front of the Gallery on Saturday, August 6.

Seventy people, mostly from Canberra, as well as locals out for a walk, and passing travellers, stopped to cluster around the totems. Marshmallows were toasted over an open fire and all watched in awe at the spectacular effect as the chainsaw carved totems were burnt using a large gas torch.

CarvingThe sculptured totems were created by artist Matthew Harding and Wood Works Artistic Director, David Mac Laren. The day had began much earlier with a handful of talented woodworkers gathering at David Mac Laren’s property to create and carve a series of totems in Cyprus pine that had been rescued from St Mary’s Church in Bungendore.

The burning of the sculptures resulted in a beautiful charred finish highlighting shape and texture. The sculptures are currently on display outside Bungendore Wood Works Gallery.

was born in Sydney in 1964 and initially trained in carpentry and joinery. He went on to study art at Hamilton TAFE and later at the ANU School of the Art, Canberra, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) in 1995. In 1998 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study figurative sculpture in Western Europe and more recently was a recipient of a prestigious 2003 ACT Creative Arts Fellowship Test Firing

Over the past two decades Harding has been selected for numerous prestigious awards exhibitions, including the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award in 2003, the 2003 National Sculpture Prize at the National Gallery of Australia, Chicago's 2002 Sculptural Objects and Functional Art exhibit, Sculpture by the Sea in 2002 and 1999, Surface and Form - Craft West Perth in 2002, and the Inami International Wood Sculpture Symposium, Japan in 1999. He has held three solo exhibitions, most recently Concentric, a collection of recent furniture pieces, at Craft ACT Gallery in 2001.
He won the Outsite site-specific sculpture symposium prize at Alice Springs in 2001 and the National Carving Competition in 1999. Harding has undertaken many commissions, including major public art projects in the ACT, Sydney, Newcastle areas and in China.

Lighting UpHarding's commitment to the development of Australia's design identity has seen him lecture in design at the Canberra School of Art and speak at international design forums including last year's Designing Futures Conference in Perth. In June 2003 he visited the Australian School of Fine Furniture in Launceston to run a project with current students before heading to Perth to undertake a residency with Craft West. Matthew is now based in Melbourne.

He brings a unique sculptural vision to his work as a designer. As well as creating visually challenging and radically functional pieces of furniture, Harding maintains a full-time practice as a professional sculptor, regularly undertaking large-scale civic art projects. His work is characterised by a deep appreciation of form, structure and function, shaped by a background encompassing the visual arts, design and construction industries. He is accomplished in working with a broad range of materials including wood, stone, steel and bronze. Harding has evolved a lateral and inter-disciplinary approach to design. His functional art pieces are characterised by imaginative structural solutions, a geometric articulation of form and an ability to push the bounds of accepted possibilities.
"My design aesthetic has its foundations in my father's passion for boat construction and design. He describes a good hull line as 'poetry in motion'. Other strong aesthetic influences stem from natural geometries and my attempts to explore connections between the macro and micro worlds around us.”
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