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FRONT GALLERY
GETTING BY by ASTROTWITCH
Early this year I started painting queer and transgender women accompanied by researched statistics on the violence and trauma that we experience. I think this was an unconscious response, or coping mechanism, to the politics we are currently living through. These paintings are building on that idea. They are my attempt to acknowledge the facts of survival, and sometimes not surviving, of women, queers and transgender people in our culture.
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BACK GALLERY
CAMEO by CHRISTIANA APROZEANU
/ˈkamɪəʊ/
noun
A usually brief literary or artistic piece that brings into delicate or sharp relief the character of a person, place, or event.
‘Cameos’ explores the concept of untold stories intrinsic in all living things. Discovered only when delving beyond the lines that contour and define us, they are havens for artist and viewer alike to escape the monotony of life and engage in a serendipitous experience. Find your cameo and tell it, or borrow one of these.
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SIDE GALLERY
ECOLOGY by JAYNE BRANCHFLOWER
& SARAH JANE LIGHTFOOT
Finding time to explore the native flora and fauna that Australia has to offer can be a challenging task. Ecology aims to bring a snapshot of the Australian bush to the inner city as seen through the eyes of Jayne Branchflower and Sarah Lightfoot. With the use of grey lead on paper Jayne generates intricate illustrations using subtle shading with a stylised approach. Sarah’s botanical approach aims to capture accurate depictions of Australian natives as they are found in the bush.
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UPSTAIRS GALLERY
AMPHIBIOUS APE by PAUL DEW
An analogy of life balance overwhelmed and flooded. And of finding a freeness within a return to the depths. Such that as if we were once fish... or once a type of hairless swimming ape.... we were in our element. Studies in human evolution have long suggested a very distant ancestors was aquatic... and we know that 50-75% of our own body mass even consists of water. Here the underwater depths of a pool are an imagined environment in which we are at home... with our elongated limbs, breath controlling ability , fat layers, hairlessness and bathing behaviour... adapting to life In water again is not so far reaching. It is amazing to see how natural competitive swimmers appear in the water.
71% of this planet's surface is covered in water and through global warming, that coverage is set to increase... for the present water is locked up in our polar ice caps, is underground, or in vapour and in all of us. But as polar ice caps melt, perhaps our future is of a watery life once more.
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