feminism
I've been part of a collective of artists mums for the past year. Together, we collaborated to submit a document in response to what feminism is to us today for the F generation: feminism, art, progressions exhibition that took place in October 2015. The final document which featured texts and visual art work was going to be archived in the Melbourne Women's Art Register.
The following image was what I submitted.
Kitty’s shoes on couch, Still life (1988) - Janina Green
I had the chance to see this show last week at the Monash Gallery of Art. Great overview of the works of various Australian women photographers whose works I had yet to discover such as those of Helen Grace, Ponch Hawkes, & Robyn Stacey to name a few. I noted several hand coloured silver gelatin prints throughout the exhibition. One of my VCA teachers, Janina Green, had a series of still life photographs which beautifully depicted the craft of hand colouring. The image shown above resonated with me: I saw fragility and delicateness in it.
Discovered Julia Cahill’s video and installation works at the Mattress Factory last month. Cahill is an activist and a performer. For this project, she comments satirically on breasts and sexual imagery in popular culture.
Where the great women artists are now?
This interview with Linda Lochlin done in 2007 can be seen as a sequel to the notable article she wrote in 1971 for ARTnews, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”
What woman essentially lacks today for doing great things is forgetfulness of herself; but to forget oneself it is first of all necessary to be firmly assured that now and for the future one has found oneself.
The second sex, by Simone de Beauvoir
70s feminist Dutch artist Marja Samsom’s video excerpt featuring her alter ego, Miss Kerr.
