“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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Montsalvat, 7 Hillcrest Avenue, Eltham VIC 3095

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The Eltham Design Market is back at the Eltham Community and Reception Centre just in time for Mother’s Day. This market brings together a carefully selected collection of artisans, delectable treats, local wine makers, gin and so much more! This will be the perfect place to find those hard-to-find gifts for the nearest and dearest to you.

Saturday 1 May 2021, 10am – 3pm, Eltham Community and Reception Centre, 801 Main Rd Eltham (enter via Pitt Street), Eltham VIC 3095
Free entry and free parking

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Celebrating our 15th year of bringing art to our audience, we welcome you to enjoy our first and only exhibition for the year that is 2020: ‘The Escapism of Creativity’. This exhibition has allowed our artists to come together once again, to celebrate our passion and diversity with positivity and hope. The sheer act of creating has given artists an escape from our current world and taken us beyond restrictions, news conferences and uncertainty, providing a distraction for a moment in time. We hope that these artworks can do the same for you.

Clan Farquharson and Clan Gordon from the Clan Handbags & Gladrags series are available to purchase in this exhibition. For clan commissions, please contact Pascale for more details.

Online exhibition runs 1-30 November 2020. Visit Thou Art Mum for more information.

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The ArtsBridge 2018 Contemporary Art Exhibition Gala has over 100 artworks by various artists available to browse and purchase! Opening Gala is on Saturday 25 August, 5-7pm, and the exhibition continues on Sunday 26 August, 10am -4pm, as part of the Hurstbridge Wattle Festival 2018.

I will have five original artworks as well as A5, A4 and A3 fine art prints plus a new range of A6 cards featuring 10 designs. Spring is nearly here!

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