Avian Assembly, Singleton Arts and Cultural Centre 2025
AVIAN ASSEMBLY
Fernando do Campo
Madeleine Kelly
Raquel Ormella
17 May – 3 Aug 2025
Photos: Edwina Richards
AVIAN ASSEMBLY invites deep reflection on the relationships between humans and birds, as well as the broader ecological systems that connect us all. As we look toward the future, integrating nature and society remains crucial to our collective vision for sustainability and ecological responsibility. This exhibition challenges us to critically examine the human history that has shaped our interactions with the natural world.
Through its works, AVIAN ASSEMBLY opens a space for contemplation on themes of kinship, freedom, and confinement, urging us to recognize the responsibility we bear in safeguarding the natural world for future generations. We hope that by engaging with these works, visitors will foster a deeper connection to the environment—one that extends beyond art and inspires action.
Madeleine Kelly ‘Liminal Birds’ 2025, Oil and acrylic on polyester, 92 x 61 cm.
Madeleine Kelly Listen to the Ground (diptych), 2024 Oil on polyester 92 x 76cm (right panel)
Madeleine Kelly Listen to the Ground (diptych), 2024 Oil on polyester 76 x 92cm (left) and 92 x 76cm (right)
Madeleine Kelly Listen to the Ground (diptych), 2024 Oil on polyester
76 x 92cm (left)
Installation view Avian assembly: Madeleine Kelly Canberra Birds: Cute Craft for the Archive of Painting, 2018 – 19; Madeleine Kelly Stair Ghost 2019 Oil on polyester 137 x 101 cm; Raquel Ormella; 340 And Counting – 21 Species: 3 Parrots, 5 Thornbills, Some Honeyeaters, Wrens And Flycatchers 2021
Installation view Avian assembly: Raquel Ormella; 340 And Counting – 21 Species: 3 Parrots, 5 Thornbills, Some Honeyeaters, Wrens And Flycatchers 2021, Fernando do Campo Pishing in the Archive, 2021 Single channel video
Raquel Ormella Today I Saw… , 2025 Dimensions variable
Raquel Ormella
Installation view Avian Assembly: Madeleine Kelly Prophets, 2024 Oil on polyester 92 X 61 cm, Fernando do Campo Pishing In The Archive, 2021 Single channel video
Installation view: Fernando do Campo To Companion a Native Companion, 2018, Fernando do Campo Kounellis Must Have Used Roal River Coal, 2018, Madeleine Kelly Stair Ghost 2019
Madeleine Kelly Canberra Birds: Cute Craft for the Archive of Painting, 2018 – 19
Madeleine Kelly Canberra Birds: Cute Craft for the Archive of Painting, 2018 – 19
Exhibition Review
Exhibition Catalogue with text: McKay, L J ‘Who Are You? Avian Assemblages’, exhibition catalogue, pp. 7–19.
Exhibition Catalogue Avian Assembly Assembly, Singleton Arts and Cultural Centre (17 May – 3 August)