
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
Installation
Chai Balcombe with Honey Sacks
Chai and Cal
The Divas Bees!! Gemma and Edwina
Outside the gallery
Install
Robin and Misha
Install
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
Kassandra Bossell, Guardian Eucalypt
Blue-banded melissae, Townsville Hive
Jeanette Hutchison, Birds and the bees
Blue-banded melissae, Townsville Hive
Chai Balcombe, Honey Sacks
Chai Balcombe, Honey Sacks
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
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
Bernadette Boscacci, Honeybee small sugarbag bee butt Queensland masked bee Native bee Blue-banded bee Pollen basket
Bernadette Boscacci, Honeybee small sugarbag bee butt Queensland masked bee
Bernadette Boscacci Queensland masked bee, Native bee , Blue-banded bee
Bernadette Boscacci, Native bee
Michelle Tyhuis, Busy bees Queen of Hearts The Place to bee Free bee Cop a bee Bee Cause Bee heehee Nature’s challenge
Michelle Tyhuis, Busy bees Queen of Hearts The Place to bee Free bee Cop a bee Bee Cause Bee heehee Nature’s challenge
Simon Peart, Open structure
Simon Peart, Open structure
Simon Peart, Open structure
Frances Bunji Elcoate, Sugarbag Bush beehive bag
Frances Bunji Elcoate, Sugarbag Bush beehive bag
Miguel Valenzuela, Electronic Experiment #9
Miguel Valenzuela, Electronic Experiment #9
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