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Women's Art Register

Locality: Richmond, Victoria

Address: Richmond Library, 415 Church Street 3121 Richmond, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.womensartregister.org

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25.01.2022 A participatory work by two WAR members Claire Field and Caroline Phillips, on show now in Adelaide at Southwest contemporary, and online participation welcome at archivingcare.com

25.01.2022 WAR co-founder and Life Member Meredith Rogers is co-writer and performer (with Hester Joyce) in Marvellous. Opening soon at La Mama theatre! Link to tix below. "A dark physical comedy is discovered in the changing shape of relationships between mother and daughter"

25.01.2022 WAR Member Anne Hastie is one of four 'highly energetic and experimental artists' featured in this virtual exhibition, Amorphous Gorgeous at Satellite Projects. 4 September - 9 October 2020. Enter the exhibition here: https://www.satelliteprojects.org.au/exhibitions/ Image: Anne Hastie, Iolite, 2020, 43 x 55cm, acrylic on card

24.01.2022 On now! WAR member @Tal Fitzpatrick is on the panel of this discussion, hosted by History Trust of South Australia and the Centre for Democracy, Adelaide. Also speaking is artist @Sera Waters and Nikki Sullivan.

23.01.2022 If you need something to do during lockdown, check out the great stories and artworks on our online map, This Is W.A.R! Over 50 sites of women's art practice in Melbourne, celebrating stories of community, work, learning, challenge, inspiration, and celebration. Its a rabbit hole worth getting lost in.

21.01.2022 We're loving this series on 5 historical Australian women artists, by Bayside Gallery, this one's on Jessie Traill, more details via link below.

21.01.2022 Our 2020/21 Artist-In-Residence Claudia Phares' new work is on show soon!

21.01.2022 WAR member Katie Sfetkidis brings hand-drawn, intersectional feminist messages to the streets of Melbourne as part of Melbourne Fringe with The Feminist Poster Project. View the website: https://www.thefeministposterproject.com/ Explore it on Fringe: https://melbournefringe.com.au//the-feminist-poster-proje/

21.01.2022 Lining up Wednesday's online viewing? See inside WAR member @Azza Zein's creative environment, and learn about her distinctive art practice. 6pm Sept 16 with Bus Projects, link below.

21.01.2022 Changing Perspectives 2020, the MSWPS 11th Annual Exhibition and its first Online Virtual Exhibition. The Annie Davison Oliver Award has gone to Gwendoline Krumins, for her work "In the Studio". Congratulations Gwendoline Krumins Art.

20.01.2022 Only a couple of days left to submit your sites of women's art practice to our This Is W.A.R map! We're looking for sites in Melbourne/Naarm that were in use prior to 2000. This could be a studio, gallery, community building, public space, school, workplace, event site... anything with an address, really, which relates to a story about women's art practice. If it's less well-known or provides an unusual perspectiveall the better! Help us put women's art practice on the... map: submissions close this Friday 2 October at 11.59pm https://womensartregister123.typeform.com/to/BdSRpYuX #womeninart #womensartpractice #sitesofpractice #womensstories #artherstory #womenonthemap #mappingmelbourne #thisisWARmelb See more

20.01.2022 Always Was, Always Will Be, NAIDOC week 2020. From the archives: Photographs by Penny Tweedie - Warrabri women weaving a typical pandanus mat, and close-weave pandanus dilly bags, 1978 : Yahtalamarra, N.T. (Arnhem Land). From the Women's Art Register Slide Kit K01 "Aboriginal Women: the artistic experience" (1983) by Penny Tweedie and Dianne Bell.

19.01.2022 Excellent series on 5 historical Australian women artists, follow the link below for more images and information by Bayside Gallery.

18.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who attended our Preserve Your Story Workshop 4 yesterday! It was great to see everyone in person at the Richmond Library and learn about Archiving and Documentation from the wonderful Mar Cruz. We hope to see you at more events in the future!

18.01.2022 Last chance to check out WAR member Pia Larsen's work at SLOT - a window gallery in Alexandria, New South Wales. The show closes tomorrow (7 November). And even if you can't go in person, you can read about the project here: http://slotlog.blogspot.com/

15.01.2022 A look back to our 2018 project: The Great Divide: Feminist Art Practice across Generations and Geography, part of the #MELNYC program. Such a wonderful experience to collaborate with (RE)Present from New York, connect via a live intergenerational dialogue and produce this collaborative feminist zine poster designed by Lisa Mansfield. Panelists included Vanessa Godden, Tassia Joannides, Juliette Peers and Caroline Phillips from the Women’s Art Register (MEL), in conversation with Nancy Azara, Emily Harris and Rachel Steinberg from (RE)Present (NYC). Thinking of our friends in the USA and hope you are keeping safe and well.

15.01.2022 With only one week to go to submit your sites to This Is W.A.R., we venture to the University of Melbourne and its iconic Union Househome to experimental, feminist creative practice in the 1970s #thisisWARmelb : PARKVILLE Union House is the home of the University of Melbourne Student Union. The Brutalist design Secomb wing, adjoining the National Museum building of 1863, was completed in 1970. Along with food and support services for students, the building houses arts... venues including the Union House Theatre (est.1969) and George Paton Gallery (previously Ewing & George Paton Gallery). With a long history of activism and social conscience, Union House was a focal point for Women’s liberation and activism in the 1970s. Since 1990, Union House has been the home of Mudfest, the largest student arts festival in the Southern Hemisphere. Sadly this iconic modernist building will soon be closed. Construction is underway of a new student precinct, located further south along Grattan Street, where the theatre and gallery will relocate. One of the many epochal arts events held at Union House was ‘Women At Work: a Week of Women’s Performance’, presented from 26 June 1980. Activating the corridors, galleries, theatres and outdoor spaces of Union House, this experimental program of art, music and theatre performance, and seminars featured nine artists from around Australia: Cath Cherry, Bonita Ely, Ann Fogarty, Joan Grounds, Jan Hunter, Jane Kent, Vineta Lagzdina, Jackie Lawes and Anne Marsh. It relates to creativity as being a part of one’s life rather than as part of something one does separately from one’s life. It is creative to think differently. Ann Fogarty, Seminar II, Friday 6 June, 1980. Images: All images from the Women’s Art Register Archive, from the Women at Work series. 1. Vineta Lagzdina, ‘A Bed of Roses’; 2. Anne Fogarty, ‘Mother’; 3. Catalogue, June 1980; 4. Bonita Ely, ‘Murray River Punch’. #womeninart #womensartpractice #sitesofpractice #womensstories #artherstory #puttingwomenonthemap #unimelb #unionhouse #parkville The University of Melbourne UMSU University of Melbourne Student Union See more

15.01.2022 Today's This Is W.A.R. story is about artist Marguerite Mahood's pioneering role as a radio presenter, with her own weekly arts program in the 1920s... Have you got a site to submit? Submissions close 2 October: https://womensartregister123.typeform.com/to/BdSRpYuX #thisisWARmelb : MELBOURNE CBD... In 1926 artist Marguerite Mahood became one of the first women in Australia to broadcast her own radio program, a weekly discussion of art and decoration, on 3LO. When Mahood began, 3LO had its studio at the Cambridge Building, 139 Collins Street in Melbourne. During her tenure, which lasted over three years, the station moved to a former factory in Melbourne Place, off Russell Street, where it remained until the building of Broadcast House in 1945. In the Wireless Weekly in 1929, Mahood wrote: It’s quite useless saying that women don’t take an interest in wireless these days. They always did. Wireless in the home would never have gone beyond the crude experimental stage but for the gentle voice of womanly encouragement Feminine opinion in this matter, as in others, is paramount and deserves to be considered. Mahood began her career by undertaking drawing classes at the National Gallery School, soon establishing herself as an artist producing drawings, linocuts and paintings in the 1920s. After teaching herself pottery from technical books at the Public Library of Victoria in 1931 (she found the pottery course at the Working Men’s College incredibly rudimentary) she held regular exhibitions of her ceramic work at Sedon Galleries in Elizabeth Street, the Victorian Artists Society, and the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. She also produced graphic art works throughout her life. She obtained her PhD from Melbourne University when she was in her 70s. Her doctoral thesis was published in 1973 as ‘The Loaded Line: Australian Political Caricature 17881901’. Images: 1. Marguerite Mahood, Wikipedia (WP:NFCC#4); 2. Wireless Weekly, Vol. 13 No. 19 (3 May 1929); 3. The Loaded Line: Australian Political Caricature 17881901, 1973 #womeninart #womensartpractice #sitesofpractice #womensstories #creativepractice #artherstory #margueritemahood See more

13.01.2022 WAR member Tracey Lamb is featured in PINK, a digital exhibition online from 4 Feb - 8 Mar 2021. 'Presented in the lead-up to International Women’s Day this exhibition explores the use of pink and other feminine motifs in creative practice by women. Once maligned for being girly and diminutive, pink is reclaimed and presented in hues ranging from hot pink to millennial with works exploring the social, biological and performative intersections of colour in practice. Intended... as a platform for dialogue, PINK explores where the combination of second wave feminism and neo-liberal feminism has brought womxn artists today. Covering a range of mediums and approaches the pieces in this show present a variety of creative practices and approaches to feminist narratives, each using pink as an element to strengthen their work, not minimise it.' https://www.wyndham.vic.gov.au/pink

13.01.2022 For International Archives Day 2021 this Wednesday, 9 June, attend a free webinar from 2-3pm by Catherine Dwyer, Writer and Director of the critically acclaimed documentary, 'Brazen Hussies', and Adrien McCrory from the Australian Catholic University. Re-Tracing the Feminist Revolution / Uncovering Transgender Histories will discuss how the Brazen Hussies film was made and the various official and unofficial archives sources that Catherine Dwyer accessed to bring the film to... life. In doing so she will examine what it means to re-examine the past and to uncover the too easily forgotten story of how women changed the world. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_0Uza6Zp5R5KJn1QRpLyOtA Presented by Public Record Office Victoria and Ancestry

11.01.2022 Final call out for sites of women’s art practice! Remember: we're looking for physical places around Melbourne/Naarm that we can plot on a map. Help us ensure our creative herstories are well and truly on the MAP Closes midnight tonight ... SUBMIT NOW: https://womensartregister123.typeform.com/to/BdSRpYuX ---- #womeninart #womensartpractice #sitesofpractice #womensstories #artherstory #puttingwomenonthemap #mappingmelbourne #thisisWARmelb See more

11.01.2022 Don't forget! Our next Preserve Your Story workshop is on this Saturday from 2pm. Presented by our friends Care Of Studios, this workshop will take you through the basics of caring for and maintaining your digital files and slide collections. This free interactive workshop will be facilitated via Zoom, followed by a live Q&A session. Make sure you reserve your spot now! ... https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/preserve-your-story-worksho Supported by Yarra City Council. ____ #collectionmanagement #archiving #conservation #collectioncare #homearchive #womeninart #preserveyourstory #documentation #onlineworkshop

09.01.2022 Thank you National Association for the Visual Arts for your amazing work. Tune in now for live stream of this Parliamentary Enquiry into the Arts, currently talking about layers of government working together. This is something we included in the Women's Art Register's submission to this enquiry. NAVA's presentation on today at 1.50pm. link to live stream: https://www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Events/Watch_Parliament

08.01.2022 WAR member Su Yang is exhibiting in a rare women only exhibition in Shanghai.

07.01.2022 The Greek-Australian Cultural League presents their first online art exhibition, titled 'In Isolation' For your virtual visit, go to http://gaclmelbourne.com/g/abouttheartists2020/ scroll down a little and hit ‘Enter Exhibition’... Enjoy the show!

07.01.2022 So rewarding to glean from the wisdom and practical sense of Robyn and Eleanor at Care Of Studios today. The third in our workshop series 'Preserve Your Story', supported by Yarra City Council. The final workshop next weekend (IRL at Yarra Libraries is just about booked out, but if you're quick you might grab the last two places! https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/preserve-your-story-worksho

06.01.2022 Join us tomorrow for our online event Wiki Wednesday! All levels of experience welcome, with training provided.

05.01.2022 "Amulets for protection" by WAR member Ema Shin, whose work in the McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery is reviewed for Agenda Matters, link below.

04.01.2022 We're thrilled to be taking part in the public program for Flesh after Fifty. We are hosting a discussion "Preserving Your Future" on March 18, with our friends at And Also Presents. Explore the complex layers of legacy planning for artists, in particular addressing the barriers faced by older women artists. Bookings now open!

04.01.2022 Silent Witness with Narration is an installation by WAR member Carolyn Cardinet in collaboration with Gabrielle Leah New. The land and the trees have always been a Silent Witness to Humanity. Who will remain to watch over us when we have destroyed them all? ‘... Silent Witness’ explores ideas of waste, non-renewable resources, mining and forest destruction. The installation comprises three performance videos embedded within a maze of hanging bicycle inner-tubes creating a haunted forest-like experience. The centre of the maze is a pool of black oil with a projection of morphing faces mingling with audiences' reflections. It is a place for contemplation about our responsibility for climate destruction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LijQ8JxDufM

04.01.2022 Interested in finding out more about how to care for your collections at home? Our first two Preserve Your Story workshops are now open for bookings! Both workshops will be presented online via Zoom. Workshop 1: 31 October... Conservation/Archiving of Paper and Photographs https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/preserve-your-story-worksho Workshop 2: 28 November Conservation/Archiving of Digital Files and Slides https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/preserve-your-story-worksho Join conservators Robyn Ho and Eleanor Vallier from Care Of Studios for these FREE online workshops that will provide you with practical advice, resources and techniques to help you preserve your objects for future generations to enjoy. Two further workshops will be scheduled for early next year. Supported by Yarra City Council #collectionmanagement #archiving #conservation #collectioncare #homearchive #womeninart #preserveyourstory #documentation #onlineworkshop

03.01.2022 Submissions close 2 October! Today we turn to East Melbourne and the Ola Cohn House, recognised by Heritage Victoria as a socially significant centre for the encouragement of women's art in Victoria... #thisisWARmelb : EAST MELBOURNE... Ola Cohn achieved significant success in her career as a sculptor, and was at the centre of Melbourne’s art world in the mid 20th century. In 1937 Cohn purchased Taylor’s Livery and Stables at 41-43 Gipps St, East Melbourne. She renovated the dilapidated property, turning the upstairs hayloft into her home and the stables and coach into her studio. Cohn was awarded an OBE in 1964 for services in art. Some of her most famous sculptures include Fairies’ Tree in Fitzroy Gardens, the Pioneer Women's Memorial in Adelaide and Head of a Virgin, now in the National Gallery of Victoria. Upon her death, Cohn bequeathed her home and studio to the Council of Adult Education, where regular art classes are held. Cohn served as President of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors (MSWPS) from 1948 to 1964 and the bequest also granted access for the MSWPS to hold their weekly meetings in the house, as they still do to this day. A number of her sculptures are located in the front garden of the Gipps Street site and her ashes are buried in a grave with her sculpture ‘Mother Earth’ installed above, next to the front wall of the house. Being of a romantic nature I expected to marry but with one illusion after anotherfinding no man lived up to my expectationsI accepted my fate and grew content to live alone. Giving my mind over to the powers that lie behind all inspiration, I became happy. With my thoughts centered on my work, life grew so full that scarcely a minute was wasted. From early morning until late at night I stuck to my job. Ola Cohn, early 1930s Images: 1. Ola Cohn in The Argus, c.1952, from the State Library of Victoria; 2. The Fairies’ Tree in Fitzroy Gardens in The Argus, c.1945, from the State Library of Victoria; 3. Ola Cohn, ‘Mother Earth’, from the Women’s Art Register Archive. #womeninart #womensartpractice #sitesofpractice #womensstories #artherstory #womenonthemap #olacohn #eastmelbourne See more

03.01.2022 Tonight at 7:00pm, and featuring some of our WAR members, the Melbourne Society of Women Painters & Sculptors (MSWPS) presents Changing Perspectives 2020, its 111th Annual Exhibition and first Online Virtual Exhibition. Learn more and view at the link below!

03.01.2022 WAR member Azza Zein is part of this international project, Congratulations Azza!

01.01.2022 WAR member Barbara Robinson has a new online exhibition of paintings, photographs and drawings. Telling More of the Story will be her fifth solo exhibition. To learn more and view the show, visit her website: https://www.barbararobinson.com.au/