Presenting Bacchus, a new exhibition featuring works by four local artists, Fiona Blandford, Jan Learmonth, Sarah Parkes and Ellen Taylor, curated by Jasmin McNeill.
This panel discussion will feature all four artists and the curator as well as Fleet Wine owners and directors, Justin and Lisa Jenkins. The panel will explore the collaborative experience of bringing this unique project together, as well as the potential and possibilities around artists working with industry in the context of a common ethic.
Responding to the winemaking process and surrounding landscape of Fleet Wines in Leongatha, the Bacchus project has seen each artist creating new works spanning wine painting, photography, flora installations, found object weavings and mixed media sculptures.
Where wine is often cast as a signifier of the divine and wealthy, this exhibition insists on its origins in labour, process and impermanence, giving new meaning to Fleet’s preoccupation with “capturing those fleeting moments”.
Exhibition at Coal Creek, Korumburra: June 18 – August 24, 2026, Thursday – Monday 10am – 4pm.
Panel Discussion: August 8, 2pm – 4pm
For an online catalogue of the artistry please see here.
