Combined Exhibition Opening
Opening remarks by special guest Mary Crooks, Director of the Victorian Women’s Trust.
Once Women Won the Vote, Danielle O'Brien and Marie Cook
Once Women Won the Vote’’ by Marie Cook and Danielle O’Brien is a colourful wall mural to be displayed on the Warrnambool Art Gallery façade and exhibition in the Alan Lane Gallery that celebrates women in Victoria’s South-West who signed this historic petition and their legacy today. The mural includes a dedication to Vida Mary Jane Goldstein, a pioneering feminist and suffragist born in Portland, 1869. The exhibition includes a mini documentary by Her Place Women's Museum Australia that features a number of women connected to South West Victoria who have been pioneers in their field and championed the rights of women regionally as well as nationally.
slowtrade, Jake Preval
slowtrade installation by Jake Preval that revels in the rituals and intimate performances of queer desire. Gleefully sidestepping realism in favour of the absurd and the bombastic, the works in the show tease out the monumental from the mundane, reframing the unremarkable to create psycho-sexual sculptural assemblages.
Cornucopia, WAG Permanent Collection
Through selected works from the WAG Collection, images of gathering, harvesting, cooking and eating tell of the one thing we all have in common – the need for food. From the bleak image of emaciated prisoners of War in Murray Griffin’s The Hungry Ones, Changi to the celebratory abundance of indigenous fare in Food of the Western District by Patricia Clarke, artists comment on the role food plays in our lives.
Friday, 11th May 2018
Doors open 6.00pm. Speeches commence at 6.30pm. Event concludes 8.00pm
Warrnambool Art Gallery, 26 Liebig Street VIC 3280
Drinks and finger food provided
RSVP (03) 5559 4949, gallery@warrnambool.vic.gov.au
+ Free entry
+ Audio loop available and wheelchair accessible
+ Suitable for all ages
Image credit: Danielle O'Brien and Marie Cook, When Women Won the Vote mural design (detail), 2018.
