This week Bundanon art museum has announced Bagan Bariwariganya: echoes of Country, an exhibition of new works by Walbunja/Ngarigo artist Aunty Cheryl Davison, Gweagal/Wandiwandianartist Aunty Julie Freeman, and Wiradyuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones.

Opening November 2 and running until February 9 next year, the exhibition is set to celebrate local stories and uphold local Aboriginal values and kinships.

The collaboration between the renowned First Nations artists will feature large-scale installations, a 75-metre-long mural and new paintings, as well as significant cultural objects. The season will also include drawings by 19th Century artist Mickey of Ulladulla. Loaned from key collections across Australia, these works provide a historical anchor to the season.

Jones, Bundanon guest curator, is well known for his evocative site-specific installations and interventions into space. Working across a range of mediums, his work explores and interrogates cultural and historical relationships and ideas from Indigenous perspectives and traditions.

For Bagan Bariwariganya: echoes of country, Jones has invited Aunty Julie and Aunty Cheryl - two significant senior artists and storytellers from the south east whom he has known for many years - to collaborate on this major new project.

Both artists families are deeply rooted in the NSW South Coast with Aunty Julie having connections from La Perouse to Wreck Bay and Aunty Cheryl from Wallaga Lake to La Perouse. Together, their work strives to uphold and maintain Aboriginal values and kinships by celebrating local stories and culture.

"Both myself and Bundanon are so lucky to be working with Aunty Julie and Aunty Cheryl, such significant artists who until now have not been given the recognition they truly deserve. This is a really special moment where we can put a spotlight on these extraordinary women and their stories, while creating a project that's deeply embedded in this place and could only happen at Bundanon," said Jones.

In Bundanon's main gallery space, the three artists have created a large-scale architectural gunyah structure built from 84 turpentine trees harvested from the Bundanon site. The tall upright trees, which are familiar with the dense forest environment of the Shoalhaven, will form this immersive indoor installation.

Suspended from the gunyah structure in the canopy space will be screen-printed skyscapes created by Aunty Cheryl. These new prints depict the local creation story of the glossy black-cockatoo and Cambewarra Mountain, near Bundanon.

A 75-metre mural by Aunty Julie and her daughter Markeeta Freeman will also feature. Wrapping around the walls of the gallery, mapping the coastline from Sydney to Gippsland, the unique piece of work illustrates the significant bays, beaches, rivers and mountains that make up the South Coast physical and cultural landscape.

The mural will be interspersed with drawings by the late Yuin artist Mickey of Ulladulla. Mickey's works are a rare depiction of early colonisation and the shifting cultural landscape through an Aboriginal viewpoint, connecting narratives from the past and present. On loan from the National Library of Australia, the National Gallery of Australia and the State Library of NSW, this presentation marks the biggest showing of his works in recent years and the first time that many of the works have come back to Country since they were initially made.

In Bundanon's Gallery 2, Aunty Julie's will present her first-ever solo exhibition, featuring a major suite of new paintings that document grandmother stories of the plants, animals and weather patterns from the escarpments, mountains and waterways of her Country. Celebrating the strength of women, each painting is presented alongside a cultural object.

In Gallery 4, Aunty Cheryl will showcase an installation, building on her body of work that celebrates local Aboriginal stories and the unique South Coast environment, she'll use soft sculptures to tell stories of her family and community.

The three gallery spaces will be connected through bespoke soundscapes, featuring recordings of local oceans and streams, stories spoken in the local language, and cockatoo birdsong. These new soundscapes sing the stories of place, celebrating local traditions and the ongoing collaboration of these three artists and cultural leaders.

Rachel Kent, chief executive officer at Bundanon, said she is looking forward to presenting the new exhibition later this year.

"Bundanon is thrilled to present Bagan Bariwariganya: echoes of country, an exhibition that shares the significance of this place through image and sound, physical immersion and storytelling. This important project celebrates local traditions and the ongoing collaboration between these three important artists and cultural leaders," she said.

To mark the opening of this new exhibition season, Bundanon will present a full weekend of celebrations, weaving and printmaking workshops, song and campfire yarns. Admission into the Art Museum will be free all weekend.

Bagan Bariwariganya: echoes of country Opening Weekend is Saturday the 2nd and Sunday the 3rd of November.