“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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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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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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Black Treetops Blossom

There is something deeply beautiful and ancient about Australian eucalypt trees silhouetted at dusk and against the night sky. Their forests are dependent on fire as an essential part of the life cycle and regeneration. Ash is the personification of the devastation brought by fire, where her seeds and flowers can blossom in the new sunlight created in the aftermath.

BLACK TREETOPS BLOSSOM
[SUBLURBAN FLORA series]
Acrylic on canvas 
30.5W x 40.5Hcm
September 2018

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Thou Art Mum presents In The Pink!

You are invited to the 2018 opening of an exhibition of diverse artworks, exploring the colour pink.

OPENING NIGHT

Thursday 3 May, 6.30-8.30pm
Art Prize Silent Auction
Fine Art Cards
Origami Butterfly Installation
Pink Hope Information, Merchandise and Q&A Volunteers
Thou Art Mum & Pink Hope Guest Speakers: Kirstin Bowden (TAM President), Pascale Garlinge (TAM Exhibition Leader and Pink Hope ambassador, Sue Jones (Programs Manager)

All fundraising donated to Pink Hope

Image: Demi Goddess (detail), Sheena Hanrahan, 2018

In The Pink: idiom, in very good health, in perfect condition. The colour pink symbolises unconditional love, compassion and understanding. Warm, tender and nurturing, it is also a sign of comfort and hope.

Proudly supporting preventative breast and ovarian health organisation, Pink Hope, to empower women to know their risk and change their future.

Donate, wear your brightest pink lipstick and join our artists as they use their own unique perspective to interpret the colour pink. Light refreshments provided.

Roses (2018), acrylic on canvas. Enquiries to Montsalvat 03 9439 7712 or montsalvat@montsalvat.com.au.

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(Shirley Manson as a mermaid)

Acrylic on canvas (unframed)

I painted Shirley Manson as a mermaid caught in a net after hearing her discuss feminism (equality) and the idea that there is a global movement towards eradicating women’s rights.

Today’s world is quite different to the one I thought it would be when I was studying at uni in the Nineties and listening to Stupid Girl, a song about female empowerment. Twenty years on I feel angry and helpless about it, floating and drowning in my usual mermie way.

SNARE is an exploration of the daily fight for rights by women in a society which is more caught up than ever in the superficiality of what women look like and not the importance of what they are made of.

$395

@Garbage on Instagram – Shirley gives Snare her tick of approval!

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