Wyndham artist Venice-bound

Key points

• Local artist Mita Chowdhury has been named the recipient of the 2026 Venice Biennale Mentorship, announced by Wyndham council and Deakin University. She will travel to Venice from 19 to 24 October for the Venetian Kind program, hosted by the European Cultural Centre.
• Chowdhury, born in Bangladesh, works across digital image-making, painting, installation, textiles and socially engaged art, researching first-generation Bangladeshi Australian women.
• Her works from the program will be shown at Palazzo Mora, Venice, in November, before returning to Melbourne.