“Art is a hard mistress, and there is no art quite so hard as that of being a wife. So many women exhaust their artistic power in getting married, which is, after all, a comparatively easy business. It takes a perfect artist to remain married.” Blanche Ebbutt, Don’ts For Wives, 1913

Long before the fashion runways of Rodarte, my mother had a vivid hallucination on morphine while in hospice care. As she came to the end of her life, an invisible writer spelled out GOLDINFINITY in a gilded hand on the wall and beautiful young girls dressed in roses and gypsophila (baby’s breath) approached. She had returned to her faith. Was this her glimpse of a golden infinity?

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Find me at the Eltham Design Market – July Edition on Saturday 16 July 2022, 10am-3pm. Eltham’s beautiful mudbrick Community and Reception Centre will come alive with over 60 creative stallholders – entry is free! Take a sneak peek at the designers here at Eltham Design Market.

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Heal Thy Selfie is an exhibition of female portrait paintings which explores the ‘healthy selfie’ through cleansing foods, virtual travel and the gaze.

In 2022, close to 100 million selfies are taken every day while the beauty and cosmetic industries grow bigger than ever, at times questionably regulated. In a selfie, a woman can be both the object of power and hold the power within herself: she is at home with watching herself being watched. And so, when she becomes sick, it is her reflection in the all-seeing, all-knowing mirror that will alert her.

In the health world, we know that chronic inflammation causes chronic illness, meaning that a healthy gut is crucial to both wellbeing and looking well. Global foods, from the wild blueberries of Canada to the celery juice of the Mediterranean to the lemon water of India, have become sweeping staples in the recovery from toxins in the body. In Heal Thy Selfie we can enjoy the escapism to far flung corners of the world where these foods have their origins, at a time when international travel is greatly reduced.

Pascale looks to her own 5-year experience with chronic illness which caused the malfunction of her immune system in a cytokine storm: Breast Implant Illness (BII), after prophylactic mastectomy and reconstruction. She uses the many posted before/after selfies to inform the painted ‘after’ following explant to flat.

EXHIBITION OPENING

Sunday 19 June 2022, 3.30-5.30pm

The Boulevard at Montsalvat, 7 Hillcrest Avenue, Eltham VIC 3095

Nibbles provided, drinks at bar prices

Hand painted art door raffle prize!

Entry is free but booking is required at www.montsalvat.com.au.

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Sad Mad Bad Behaviour explores the guiltless, superficial and pleasure-seeking charms hiding the cold brutality of star linguistics university student, lethal female assassin and predatory psychopath, Oxana Vorontsova, aka Codename Villanelle. British author Luke Jennings’ novel by the same name was the basis for subsequent spy thriller television series, Killing Eve, where Villanelle is played by English actress, Jodie Comer.

Available in The Artistry of Books presented by TAM at Eltham Community Library Gallery, 20 May-19 June 2022

Check www.yprl.vic.gov.au for library opening hours.

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Find me at the Eltham Design Market – Mothers Day Event this Saturday 7 May, 10am-3pm. Eltham’s beautiful mudbrick Community and Reception Centre will come alive with creative stallholders just in time for Mother’s Day on Sunday! Take a sneak peek at the designers here at www.elthamdesignmarket.com/designers

This will be my first market for the year and I’ll be bringing prints, cards and originals to this event with a few special prices just for mum! Entry is free!

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I am thrilled to be exhibiting for the first time in 2022 in in.cube8r gallery Fitzroy show, RAINBOW, featuring works from Jena Oakford, Michelle Lewarton Smith, Emily King, Brett Sixtysix, Bridget Milesi, Pascale Garlinge, Tammy McGrath, Louella Kennedy, Melanie Thoren and Claire Rayos.

Rainbows have long meant different things to different people and in RAINBOW in.cube8r invites artists to explore colour, light and what the rainbow means to them.

Join us as we explore the colours of the rainbow, metaphorically and literally, in this fun, bright and colourful group show between 20 January at 5pm and 2 February at 5pm.

in.cube8r gallery, 321 Smith Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065, opening hours: Mon-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 11am-3pm

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Montsalvat, 7 Hillcrest Avenue, Eltham VIC 3095

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The iconic Linden Postcard Show has returned for its 31st year at Linden New Art, St. Kilda! With over 1000 mini masterpieces to see – every work measuring exactly 8 x 10″ – this exhibition will include work by artists at all stages in their career, from across Australia.

This series, Time At The Swim Up Bar, celebrates miniature mermaids in classic cocktails. Following a two-year period of sobriety after chronic illness, the miniature postcard sized paintings mark a pause, or possible ending, to drinking alcohol, all the while celebrating the irresistible appeal of that holiday feeling synonymous with poolside cocktails. Inspired by British crime drama serial, The Serpent, viewed avidly through lockdown in 2021, these drinks are a safer variety to those drunk by the Thai pool!

Visit the Linden Postcard Show at Linden New Art, 26 Acland Street, St. Kilda, VIC 3182, until 27 February 2022. View the exhibition catalogue here.

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