AWE-INSPIRING WOMEN

SUE TATE

IRENE PAGRAM

VIVIENNE WHEELER

… your one wild and precious life …

SUE TATE  'wave of power'

Look, rejoice, celebrate, shout – among us is inspiration!

Local women offer up their creations – work of beauty, skill, patience, observation, wit – acknowledgement to the ‘one wild and precious life’ each lives in her unique and valuable way, each throwing up profound and tender perceptions, making palpable what is felt and observed, in honour of showing and sharing that moment, that realization. Foregoing to focus.

As with all things multiple and human these women’s taunts and talents lead in no single direction, nor are they guided by a specifically gendered sensitivity.

Their amazement springs from many sources: placid observation, gathering, turning of pages, gazing into frames, the eye trailing the littered dirt, the treetops, the waves, the seashore, an array of marks, telling intonations around them … This anyway is how I understand it – I read and hear of delight in Wolseley and Hokusai, I think of Anne Morrow Lindburgh’s Gift from the Sea.

IRENE PAGRAM  Making the time and space to be an artist, (2019)

I see inspiration from Miro, Leonardo, Michelangelo and think of Gerard Manley Hopkin’s Pied Beauty… I know these women live in their worlds and read them, eagerly – what a bounty to share, how pleased and proud I am to be in their orbit, however peripherally, to experience  their delight in observing and making and sharing.

Look, rejoice, celebrate, shout – among us is inspiration!

VIVIENNE WHEELER 'Content to be me'

Frustrated child

Failed to be wild

Relief now I’m older

Learning to be bolder

Children and power

Maturing by the hour

Artwork I see

Content to be me 

(V Wheeler, 2019)

Women thank you, profoundly thank you!


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THESE WORKS ARE ON SHOW AT THE 

SOUTH WEST INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY ART PRIZE 2019 - 

F_PROJECT GALLERY WARRNAMBOOL

ANNA SANDE - March

ANNA SANDE 

a life in T-shirts (now til then)

WINDOWSPACE

March 2019

Sande -T-shirts from various eras

Once upon a time, at an inner city university, under their compulsory elective curriculum, there was an amazing subject offered – its title: DRESS, ROLE & STATUS. Think upon these three words for a moment and you might gather a whiff of the potential.

For a while I was a lucky ‘facilitator’ of said subject – I write ‘facilitator’ because the students did most of the work. They seemed to enjoy the subject and came up with some mind-boggling information and images in their presentations. I learnt a lot. Did you know that under the ‘banner’ body modification, some modification-devotees go to the extreme ‘length’ of amputation.  That’s right: tattoos, piercing and amputation. The extremes of ‘fashion’ are just that.

Did you know that food ‘down your front’ is associated with ageing. What of Chinese foot-binding (are stilettos a contemporary equivalent!), and the crucial role of colour in dress – wrong colour and you could lose your life, in some eras, in some countries! The humble t-shirt was honoured with a presentation too. That I could understand – the human billboard – but initially ‘the space’ was blank, occupied only by the mildly rippling six-pack of James Dean, and Marlon Brando, and the curves of the gorgeous young women of the French New Wave.

Having taken print-making in my own elective studies long before, I had the tools to play around with ‘the moving billboard’, consequently I have quite a collection of my own efforts of ‘speaking out’ – a collection that covers decades, and issues, most long-forgotten. The t-shirt is a kind of social time-capsule, along with much else to do with ‘dress’. Who could forget the Japanese couple and their T-shirts in Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train (1989).This installation celebrates the up-front T and the social history it tells. 

All being well the T-shirt will change daily during the month of March.

Thank you to Allison McClaren for assistance and loan of 'the lady'.

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