Buda exhibition: Dianne Longley’s site-specific exhibition explores Buda Historic Home and Garden as a location for inspiration and imagination, investigating the layers and traces of the Leviny family who lived creative and intellectually curious lives in the historic homestead. Through a process of close observation and reinterpretation, Longley has photographed architectural details capturing the worn surface details that evidence the passage of time. Onto these abstracted compositions she overlays traceries of drawings derived from the Leviny sisters’ journals and design fragments from Buda’s permanent collection of art and craft objects, revealing a layered dialogue between image, memory, and place. Other works have 1940s patterned and worn linoleum as the ground upon which Longley’s characters inhabit narratives of quiet resilience, and imaginative interior worlds.

Another aspect of the exhibition is the installation of small works by Longley alongside or adjacent to objects d’art displayed in the Buda collection. Her small artworks including miniature drawings, bronze plant forms, and on-glaze porcelain works will be found by inquisitive visitors to Buda Historic Home.

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