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Changing Perspectives – 109th Annual Exhibition OPENING: * Sunday 7 October 2.00pm To be opened by Jock Clutterbuck – Australia Sculptor/Printmaker 2018 Elegant Afternoon Tea & Guest Talk *Thursday 11…

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Earth and Sea

Louise Foletta exhibits her Sea paintings and charcoal drawings from after the fires with Glenys Hazelman’s Earth porcelain, featuring Box Gum leaves. “Bithry Inlet, is an isolated spot on the…

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EXISTENCE

See me: Hear my Silent Screams
See me as a Pearl yet you see me as a sexual object.
Hear my Silent Screams as purity is systematically and forcefully pierced and destroyed.
See my transformation as the ‘jewel’ of my being is stolen.
Hear my Silent Screams as I am forced to endure another invasion.
See the broken virgins; hear the ‘comfort women’ voices.

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Pamela Irving: Yolo Man and His Apocalyptic Alphabet

YOLO is a social media acronym meaning You Only Live Once. Pamela Irving’s ‘YOLO Man’ character started life in her murals at St Kilda’s Luna Park and were most recently shown at the Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics in Chicago, USA. In this series of original ink drawings and mosaics to be exhibited for the first time in Australia, YOLO Man is depicted carrying a variety of apocalyptic figures on his head, hands and sometimes even his tongue. Often struggling due to the gravitas of those that burden him,
YOLO man however manages the task with great optimism. Irving appropriates imagery from both well-known and obscure mosaics, drawings and paintings about the apocalypse. YOLO Man is a much loved character of the artist and a great edict to live by.

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