FEM-aFFINITY, Curated by Dr Catherine Bell
Arts Project Australia – 15 June – 20 July 2019
Devonport Regional Gallery – 25 January – 15 March 2020
Noosa Regional Gallery – 25 July – 12 September 2020
Horsham Regional Art Gallery – 01 December – 17 January 2021
Bunjil Place – 30 January – 14 March 2021
Riddoch Art Gallery – 22 May – 04 July 2021
Benalla Art Gallery – 06 August – 17 October 2021
Curated by contemporary artist and ACU academic Catherine Bell, FEM-AFFINITY brings together female artists from Arts Project and wider Victoria whose work share an affinity of subject and process. By situating female Arts Project studio artists alongside other female contemporary artists, the exhibition seeks to uncover shared perspectives and variations on female identity.
Drawing upon interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches, and understanding artworks as a complex and nuanced way of thinking about embodied knowledge, the exhibition reveals how feminism materialises in distinctive and uncanny ways.
Featuring works by: Fulli Andrinopoulos, Dorothy Berry, Yvette Coppersmith, Wendy Dawson, Prudence Flint, Helga Groves, Bronwyn Hack, Janelle Low, Eden Menta, Jill Orr, Lisa Reid, Heather Shimmen, Cathy Staughton and Jane Trengove.
FEM-aFFINITY is a NETS Victoria and Arts Project Australia touring exhibition will travel regionally and nationally throughout 2020 and 2021.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. This exhibition is also supported by NETS Victoria, Limb Family Foundation, Leonard Joel and Art Guide Australia.FEM-AFFINITY is presented by Associate Professor Catherine Bell in partnership with Arts Project Australia.
Left image: Yvette Coppersmith, John Safran, 2009
Right image: Lisa Reid, Life Drawing - seated, 2002