HIVE ALIVE! 2016

HIVE ALIVE! was our inaugural swarm that took place in Sydney at Alpha House Gallery 226 Union Street, Erskineville from 21–30 September 2016.

HIVE ALIVE! visual and performing arts, and the associated public program showcased over thirty-three artists with twenty-five Australian artists from the ACT, NSW, QLD, NT and VIC and another eight of the featured artists from Europe and the United Kingdom.

HIVE ALIVE! included a multi media exhibition, performance events, film screenings, a public program of workshops, artist talks and a neighbourhood hive walk. The exhibition featured sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, video, assemblage, light and sound installations and a self-published catalogue-zine.

Click here to read the Hive Alive Catalogue / Zine!

Listen to audio from the Opening night and sound works by participating artists.

Watch videos of activities and performances from the exhibition activities program:

Jessica Hannah’s Kids Creative Writing Workshop

Performance by Bleurgh! on the Closing night event

Snippet from ‘Apiarium’ performance

Performance by The Vacant Lot at Hive Alive Performance night

See more photographs from Hive Alive! here on Flikr

Michelle Tyhuis Works ready for install

Forest Keegal’s Bee Hotel

Forest Keegal’s Bee Hotels

Installation

Chai Balcombe with Honey Sacks

Chai and Cal

The Divas Bees!! Gemma and Edwina

Outside the gallery

Install

Robin and Misha

Install

Kassandra Bossell and friends!

Bernadette Boscacci melliferous 1

Kathy Cornwell, Weniki Hensch and Fairlie Sandilands works

Install

Nina Dawson, What will out future be(e)?

Entrance Installation by Misha Sweeney and Bernadette Boscacci

Julia Cazita-Mazeud, We need bees – in space

Kassandra Bossell, As Above So Below

Kassandra Bossell, Guardian Eucalypt

Blue-banded melissae, Townsville Hive

Jeanette Hutchison, Birds and the bees

Blue-banded melissae, Townsville Hive

Chai Balcombe, Honey Sacks

Julia Cazita-Mazeud, We need bees

Bernadette Boscacci, Delicate Masked Bee and Bee Hotels by Forest Keegal

Forest Keegal, Bee Hotels

Bernadette Boscacci, Delicate Masked Bee

John Skuja, Failure (Above) Success (Below)

Robyn Sweeney, The Golden Horn: Bulls, Bees & pollen balls

Bernadette Boscacci, Bees knees and gangila (Above) and Sensory flower lode (Below)

Nina Dawson, What will out future be(e)?

Bernadette Boscacci Golden bee – blue (Above) Golden bee – brown (Middle) Golden bee – black (Below)

L-R Kathy Cornwall, Cuckoo Bee (Above) Wing (Below); Weniki Hensch, Honey Ancestors; Fairlie Sandilands Alchemist (Above), Construct (Middle), Nirvana (Below)

Kathy Cornwall, Cuckoo Bee (Above) Wing (Below)

Karmit Even Zur, Weaving landscape into my hive

Michelle Tyhuis Flower Power (Above), Hive Alive (Below)

Tobias Richardson, Mysterious Building of Concrete Boxes

Bernadette Boscacci, melliferous 1 and 2

Fairlie Sandilands Ancestor Bee In to the Light What lies Within Worship Hive Mind Drone Deity Swarmand Bernadette Boscacci, melliferous 1 and 2 and

$Robyn Sweeney, Stung Posy The hypnotic allure of the Black Eyed Susan Hive in my wall Foray, Rose Window Mandala of reflection, Between you, me and the bees Celtic, Rose window The honey of creation - La Ruche De Montparnasse Frank Lloyd Wright: a compulsion for fractals Wolfgang Laib at Ananda, Bagan Gaudi’s Sacred Bees, Sagrada Famila$

Robyn Sweeney, Stung Posy The hypnotic allure of the Black Eyed Susan Hive in my wall Foray, Rose Window Mandala of reflection, Between you, me and the bees Celtic, Rose window The honey of creation – La Ruche De Montparnasse Frank Lloyd Wright: a compulsion for fractals Wolfgang Laib at Ananda, Bagan Gaudi’s Sacred Bees, Sagrada Famila