YVETTE COPPERSMITH

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

Australian Marine Conservation Society
Charity Art Auction for the campaign to stop Shark Fin Fishing

Australia’s leading not-for-profit charity dedicated to protecting Australia’s ocean wildlife - see website:
www.amcs.org.au

Charity Art Auction
Friday September 12th 6-10pm
at the Ithaca Room, Brisbane City Town Hall

Click here to view work.

Ucoming solo show
will be at Metro 5 Gallery
December 2008, details to come

www.metro5gallery.com.au

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Finalist in Archibald 2008

Opening Art Gallery of NSW
Friday 7 March 2008

Archibald Prize 2008

Paul Capsis with his portrait
'In the Garland'
oil on linen
122.5cm x 111.5cm

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Upcoming Solo Exhibition

'Blue Series'

21st February - 8 March 2008

Opening Thursday 21 February, 6pm - 8pm

They met randomly at an opening in Fitzroy, 2 March 2007. He was a curator, she - a painter. The subsequent interactions led to the crystallization of this exhibition. An exchange of the usual social roles and power dynamics was part motive. The other - an involuntary realisation that the artist had met her muse.

BLINDSIDE ARTIST RUN SPACE
Level 7, Room 14,
Nicholas Building
37 Swanston street,
Melbourne 3000
info@blindside.org.au
www.blindside.org.au
PH: 03 9650 0093

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'Forever in Blue Jeans' detail
oil on linen
7 x 122.5cm x 81.5cm

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Portia Geach Memorial Award 2007

This year’s Award attracted submissions of 316 works from which 55 works were selected for the exhibition at the S H Ervin Gallery, Observatory Hill from 28 September to 4 November.

Click here for more info.

Image of selected Painting:

Untitled (Moira Finucane as 'Victoriana')
oil on linen
81.5cm x 122.5cm

Accompanying text:

In the Summer of 2004 I sat in the Spiegeltent in Melbourne, grinning , as the performers of The Burlesque Hour unleashed their intoxicating magic. By the end of the show, the thought - as unreaslistic as it first seemed - had embedded itself; to paint at least just one character...the woman in the Victorian black taffeta dress. Internationally acclaimed Queen of Cabaret Bizarre, Moira Finucane in her work Victoriana - a Gothic revival, a mesmerising slow burn of repressed desire and grief.

The Burlesque Hour is a lush velvet trimmed salon, where Finucane & Smith (Moira Finucane & Jackie Smith), renowned creators of intimate theatrical spectacles where variety, fairy tale, cabaret, the gothic, and burlesque are melded into indelible visions of gender, power, violence and desire. Described by Finucane & Smith as a 'revolution in a chocolate box', The Burlesque Hour, is an astonishing and edgy performance around femininity and sexuality and packaged in an accessible, sophisticated and cutting edge salon.

In 2004 The Burlesque Hour won four Green Room Awards for Cabaret. It has toured nationally and internationally at numerous festivals. In three years The Burlesque Hour has been seen by over 25,000 people