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Artist in Residence at Woodford Academy: Chris Caines

nsw 20 May 2023 - 15 Jul 2023
Chris Caines is an artist living on the land of the Dharug and Gundugurra peoples in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. Producing films, articles, book chapters, site-specific media installation and mobile/locative media alongside regular music releases and performances. Caines’s studio practice embraces the linkages between media and location
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Woodford Academy Book Festival

nsw 19 Aug 2023
The Woodford Academy collection contains around 1000 unique books dating from the 1860s to the 1970s. These include Latin text books, Belle Monde fashion books, early 20th Century Agricultural Gazettes, classic fiction, and political and religious pamphlets – an amazing diversity of subjects.  There will be talk on how many
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Woodford Academy’s Garden Celebration

nsw 16 Sep 2023
Woodford House was renowned for its orchards and pleasure gardens. The Academy is celebrating this long history with displays of garden memorabilia from the collection in conjunction with local garden groups. Notes from our archives show that the McManamey family grew Christmas Bells  ‘prolific around the Academy’, as well as
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