Mother Mother, a new exhibition exploring the sometimes vexed relationships of mothers and daughters through images and words, has opened at Newstead’s Railway Arts Hub and runs through to October 27.

In this evocative and moving exhibition visual artist Pam French and poet Leni Shilton, explore the cycle of life-long female relationships and links between generations long passed.

Now living at Newstead, Leni Shilton is a poet, nurse, educator and researcher who has worked in Aboriginal adult education in the Northern Territory for 25 years.

She has twice won the Northern Territory Literary Poetry and Essay Awards, and in 2015 was shortlisted in the University of Canberra Poetry Prize.

Pam lives south of Sydney NSW works as multidisciplinary artist. Her studio situated in remnant Cumberland Plain Woodlands alongside a dry swamp. Her ongoing fascination with the wonderful diversity of people, places and nature is the source of inspiration in her work.

French and Shilton are sisters and artists working in collaboration for Mother Mother. They have worked together over many years and have collaborated in two previous exhibitions.

Their work explores the experiences of life and the creative threads between their work. Despite the work being created in isolation from each other, the visual images and poetry sit alongside each other with an ease and familiarity that comes from their family threads and shared values.

Viewers will be able to explore the work through a multimedia experience – artwork, projected images, audio, written and spoken word.

This exhibition is highly accessible and interactive with the Newstead Railway Art Hub gallery open Saturdays and Sundays 10-4pm.

The Buninyong Players are preparing to present a variety of lively medieval to baroque music from early opera, royal courts and the troubadour tradition at the Newstead Railway Arts Hub this month.

Set for Sunday July 21, the intimate afternoon matinee concert will also feature recorder music of the past 50 years, including pieces reflecting early and classical styles, including some original works, a fanfare, morning music and gigs and reels.

The Buninyong Players are a recorder quintet playing music from medieval to contemporary, using descant to bass recorders and occasional crumhorn and percussion.

Formed during Covid when only four people were allowed in a household, all are members of Ballarat’s Yarrowee Players, a large recorder ensemble.

Wines, beer and drinks will be available at bar prices, from 2pm and during interval. The concert will commence at 2.30pm sharp.

More information, including ticket sales detail, is available on the venue’s website.