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Mine, 2014

Humans are social animals. We feel the need to identify, to belong. An extension of this is ownership: setting up fences, laws and etiquette to define, contain and guard what is mine, what is yours, what is ours. We conquer nations; assimilating culture, customs and language. Possessing more and more. Priding ourselves on our property, our status, our achievements, our values. Imbuing them with stories to build our importance and self worth… the ever increasing mine. Mine is act of ownership. Mine is an act of entitlement. Mine is an act of violence.

 

Mine: Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to me1.

Mine: An excavation in the earth from which ore or minerals can be extracted2.

Mine: An explosive device used to destroy enemy personnel, shipping, fortifications, or equipment, often placed in a concealed position and designed to be detonated by contact, proximity, or a time fuse3.

 

1, 2, 3    www.thefree dictionary.com

 

 

Exhibited in Canopy at Mundaring Arts Centre 2 May – 8 June 2014

 

 

Participating artists:  Peter Dailey, Mel Dare, Joanne Duffy, Bec Juniper, Norma MacDonald, Clare McFarlane, Alan Muller, Perdita Phillips, Gregory Pryor, Nien Schwarz, Nalda Searles, David Small, Holly Story, Paul Uhlmann, Linda van der Merwe and Philip Ward-Dickson.

 

In light of the recent UNESCO World Heritage Committee rejection of the Federal Government’s bid to reverse the world heritage listing of part of the Tasmanian wilderness, a timely exhibition is on display at Mundaring Arts Centre.  Canopy – Into the Forest is a group show featuring painting, sculpture and photography from 16 leading WA artists.  The title carries a dual meaning as both above (canopy) and within (into the forest). This suggests a key tension between a limited view of the surface and delving more deeply into the layers beneath.

 

As the curators Peggy Lyon and Ashley Yihsin Chang note, the show reflects this by teasing out the conflict “between what we as a community need to do for our own long-term survival (look after the land and its unique ecosystems) and what we as individuals want to do for our own short-term pleasure or gain”.

 

The artists were invited to make artwork referencing the “the natural and cultural legacy we have inherited” in Australia as a colonised country. While the legacy of indigenous populations is intimate knowledge of living within the country and the meanings contained therein, colonial legacy is more about taking from the land for the purposes of settlement and industry.

 

Canopy exhibition catalogue_2014

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"Today, artists from across Australia are taking p "Today, artists from across Australia are taking part in a one-day action to demand that the Australian Government #CreateAustraliasFuture. "Australia’s cultural and creative sector is a $111.7bn industry: six times the size of the aviation industry, employing substantially more people than mining, and with several interdependent industries whose success relies on ours, including hospitality and tourism," said Jessica Machin, Executive Director of West Australian Ballet.

The majority of Australia’s 50,000 practising professional artists and 600,000 creative industry workers will not be covered by stimulus measures announced to date, either because of their casual working arrangements, or because their employers’ complex cashflows render them ineligible to access workers’ support on their behalf... Australia’s artists and creative companies have lost all of their audiences and all of their self-generated income for the entire year.  While Australians in isolation crave the creative experiences and social engagement of the arts, without immediate, targeted and specialist stimulus, the creative industry will collapse... Parliament sits on Wednesday to debate the next stimulus legislation. Australia’s artists and artsworkers ask parliamentarians to listen to what industry leaders are saying, and act now to #CreateAustraliasFuture." (www.visualarts.net.au/news-opinion/2020/artists-unite-demand-government-act-now/) #createaustraliasfuture 
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Details of 10 of my 13 artworks exhibiting in Lust Details of 10 of my 13 artworks exhibiting in Lust for Lustre until this Friday, 28th Feburary. Showing at Ellenbrook Arts, 34 Main St, Ellenbrook. Open Wednesday to Friday: 10am - 5pm, Saturday: 10am - 5pm and Sunday 1pm - 5pm.

Curated by Gemma Ben-Ary and Rizzy. Featuring: Andrew Nicholls, Angela Stewart, Bethamy Linton, Carla Adams, Erin Coates, Eva Fernandez, Gemma Ben-Ary, Jody Quackenbush, Katrina Virgona, Lee Harrop, Mandy Harwood, Mel Dare, Natalie Williamson, Olga Cironis, Pam Jones, Paula Cristofanini, Rizzy, Robert Andrew, Ryck Rudd, Susan Flavell, Tane Andrews, Tania Visosevic.

Artwork mediums include graphite, calcium carbonate, ink and acrylic paint on wooden panels and black card (image 1 & 2).
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ION exhibition is closing this Sunday, 23rd of Feb ION exhibition is closing this Sunday, 23rd of February. Open Wed & Fri 10am - 2pm and Sat & Sun 10am - 4pm at Lost Eden Creative, 58 McLarty St, Dwellingup.

Artists - Stephanie Reisch, Tony Windberg, Peter Kovacsy, Pete Usher, Melanie Dare, Ron Nyisztor, Jo Darvall, Tony Davis, Gregory Pryor, Geoffrey Wake and Monique Tippett.  Image credit:  Melanie Dare.

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Back from Dwellingup. Had an wonderful time talki Back from Dwellingup. 
Had an wonderful time talking with loads of visitors at Lost Eden Creative on Sunday (currently have some works in the group exhibition ION closing on the 28/02). Stayed at the gorgeous Lost Eden Airbnb. Hung out with Lost Eden Director and brilliant artist Monique Tippett and lovely hubbie Pete. Checked out their fabulous residency spaces at The Farm and at Lost Eden. Sketched and swum in the Murray River. Hung out in the trees and in  general relaxed. Brilliant!! Lost Eden Creative has been running for 10 months and is going strong. Well done Monique. Well impressed. 
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Come and say hi to gorgeous and talented artist @melaniedare today @ Lost Eden -  Mel is happy to chat about her work and show you around the current exhibition ION - In Our Nature , last week to see it before it disappears! #perthartist #perthartists #visitperth #visitpeel #perthartscene #contemporaryart #melaniedare #dwellingup
On my way to Lost Eden Creative n Dwellingup for v On my way to Lost Eden Creative n Dwellingup for v the next few days. If you feel like a country drive or are nearby drop in to the gallery. The group show In Our Nature is showing a painting and some of my sculpture as well as lots of wonderful work from other artists. I'll be there from 10am -4pm today (Sunday).
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In focus today is the sublime artworks of Mel Dare. “The Stories I Tell Myself”  2017 
Acrylic paint and ink on Belgian linen  198 cm x 157 cm....... Underlying the 20 years of Melanie Dare's art practice has been an interest in how meaning is constructed. How we are defined and confined by the physiology, psychology, culture, geography and time we are born into and live. Contexts which inform us and give us meaning. Meaning which is built, sustained and discarded moment by moment. Meaning we don’t always abide by, contexts we don’t always agreed with or even comprehend.
While visiting her mother’s homeland Czech Republic in 2013 she developed a further interest in the notion of self. An interest in how an individual is constructed, threaded together by divergent strands of culture as well as the moments of time and place we exist. Gentle strands or crude stitches forming the patterns of conditioning imposed by external and internal influences. Our need to survive and equally our desire for comfort. This was the starting point of my current body of work.  Do yourself a favour this weekend and take a drive down to Dwellingup to see this incredible exhibition ION -In Our Nature on till the 23rd Feb
Official opening of Lust of Lustre exhibition this Official opening of Lust of Lustre exhibition this Friday 31st January 6-8pm. Closes 16th February. At Ellenbrook Arts, 34 Main St, Ellenbrook. Image: Lustreware Vanitas, Andrew Nicholls, PVD on glazed superwhite porcelain. 
Curators: Gemma Ben-Ary and Rizzy.  Artists: Andrew Nicholls, Angela Stewart, Bethamy Linton, Carla Adams, Erin Coates, Eva Fernandez, Gemma Ben-Ary, Jody Quackenbush, Katrina Virgona, Lee Harrop, Mandy Harwood, Melanie Dare, Natalie Williamson, Olga Cironis, Pam Jones, Paula Cristofanini, Rizzy, Robert Andrew, Ryck Rudd, Susan Flavell, Tane Andrews, Tania Visosevic.

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