The Hidden Theatre Exhibition

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The Hidden Theatre is a sound, film and photographic installation by Australian filmmaker and artist Tim Georgeson and composer, performer and proud Kalkadunga man, William Barton.


Snapshot

When

  • Saturday, 08 February 2025 | 10:00 AM - Sunday, 13 April 2025 | 02:00 PM

Location

Glasshouse Regional Gallery

Description

Glasshouse Regional Gallery presents

The Hidden Theatre

Tim Georgeson and William Barton

The Hidden Theatre is a sound, film and photographic installation by Australian filmmaker and artist Tim Georgeson and composer, performer and proud Kalkadunga man, William Barton. It offers a personal account of the Bundanon land and waterscapes in New South Wales, Australia.

Working together for the first time, Georgeson and Barton undertook an artistic residency at Bundanon in 2021, composing, recording and experimenting in response to Wodi Wodi Country. They continued this close collaboration offsite, weaving together their responses through an ongoing exchange of material.

Anchored by Barton’s compositions, Georgeson’s films are edited in distinct acts, revealing unseen interactions between sunlight, moonlight, fog and wind. Together, sound and image form a meditation on the ancient knowledge and histories held within the earth, water and skies of this place.

The Hidden Theatre is accompanied by a selection of Georgeson’s photographs that capture the immediacy of the natural phenomena experienced at Bundanon.

Key Dates:

Exhibition On View: Saturday 8 February 2025 to Sunday 13 April 2025

Exhibition Opening: Friday 7 February, 6pm. Free event, bookings essential. Register here. 

 

Image: The Hidden Theatre installation, Bundanon Trust Art Museum, 2022

This exhibition is part of our Education @ Glasshouse 2025 Program

About the Artists

Tim Georgeson

Tim Georgeson creates immersive cinematic spaces, through film, sound and photography where environments and bodies are transformed through the gaze of unexpected visual-musical ecologies.

His creative insight into the human condition gives his work a unique perspective at the boundaries of art and documentary, where through photography and film, he captures complex dynamics in contemporary life and merges these found moments with musical design and storytelling in ground-breaking collaborations, most notably with Australian Indigenous artists.

Georgeson has won World Press Photo, Leica Camera and National Geographic awards. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in France, UK, Japan, Holland, Canada, the USA and Australia. His work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Art Bank, Bundanon Trust Art Museum and the Australian Museum, as well as in regional galleries, corporate collections and private collections internationally.

Georgeson is represented by Olsen Gallery, Sydney.

www.timgeorgeson.com | @timgeorgeson

 

William Barton

William Barton is Australia’s leading didgeridoo player as well as a highly esteemed composer, instrumentalist and vocalist.

William first learnt the instrument from his uncle, Arthur Peterson, an Elder of the Wannyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga people and was working from an early age with traditional dance groups, fusion/rock/jazz bands, orchestras, string quartets and mixed ensembles.

Throughout his diverse career he has forged a path in the classical musical world from the London, Berlin and Bremer Philharmonic Orchestras to historic events at Westminster Abbey for Commonwealth Day 2019, at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli and the Beijing Olympics.

His awards include Winner of Best Original Score for a Mainstage Production at the 2018 Sydney Theatre Awards and Winner of Best Classical Album with an ARIA for Birdsong At Dusk in 2012. In 2021 he was the recipient of the prestigious Don Banks Music Award from the Australia Council and the Limelight Australian Artist of the Year: Critic’s Choice. In 2022 he was included in The Australian’s The List: 100 Arts & Culture influencers.

www.williambarton.com.au | @williambartonmusic

Education

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