Suspend, 2008 – Mel Dare

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Suspend, 2008

This artwork was created not long after a family member passed away from a long, slow death.

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SOLASTALGIA fundraising art exhibition officially

SOLASTALGIA fundraising art exhibition officially opening tonight 6pm @ Lost Eden Creative, Dwellingup. Open: 3 Dec - 6 Feb.

Over 80 artists have contributed artwork to this good cause. Proceeds of the fundraiser will go to 'Save Dwellingup Discovery Forest' and WA Forest Alliance. More info can be found at
www.dwellingupdiscoveryforest.org

#solastalgiaexhibition #groupexhibition #fundraiserevent @lostedencreative #dwellingup

Exhibiting at the SOLASTALGIA fundraising art exhi

Exhibiting at the SOLASTALGIA fundraising art exhibition. Opening tonight 6pm @ Lost Eden Creative, Dwellingup. Finishing 6 February.

Over 80 artists have contributed artwork to this good cause. Proceeds of the fundraiser will go to 'Save Dwellingup Discovery Forest' and WA Forest Alliance. More info can be found at
www.dwellingupdiscoveryforest.org

Artwork details: Mel Dare, Don't Be Such a Girl 8, acrylic paint and ink on canvas, 30.9 x 30.9cm, 2021.

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Last week of Gotham Gets Pickled at Holmes à Cour

Last week of Gotham Gets Pickled at Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10. Finishes this Saturday the 4th December at 5pm. Open Tues - Sat 11am - 5pm. 10 Douglas Street, West Perth

Artist Statement:

Green. Paddocks of wheat in early Spring. The Avon River in Winter. My favourite turtleneck skivvy when I was five. The sweet moist smell of forest undergrowth.

For the last 20 years I have been interested in personal narrative. Particularly how it is constructed within individual subjectivity. The process of why and how people choose certain events and experiences from their culture, families and day-to-day living to build stories by which they navigate, view and understand their lives.

As a child green was my favourite colour. Peaceful, soothing, full of hope and renewal. Now as an adult the colour green has other meanings. Political, environmental and personal. This body of work investigates a few of these divergent aspects of my relationship with the colour green. Particularly the changes in comprehension, understanding and knowledge which come with the passage of time.

ARTWORK DETAILS:

Mel Dare, Green 1, 2 and 3, acrylic paint and ink on Caravaggio linen, 2021

Image by the artist.

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Last week of Gotham Gets Pickled at Holmes à Cour

Last week of Gotham Gets Pickled at Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10. Finishes this Saturday 5pm. Tues - Sat 11am - 5pm. 10 Douglas Street, West Perth

Gotham Gets Pickled' celebrates 35 years of Gotham Studios. As Western Australia’s longest running artist-run initiative, “Gotham has evolved into an icon of independent Western Australian artistic endeavour, placing working artists in the heart of Perth’s CBD for over three decades. Hundreds of visual artists have held studios in Gotham over the collective’s life span, including many of the state’s most celebrated arts practitioners.”
This exhibition brings the works of the twelve current Gotham artists to the Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10 in the burgeoning arts hub of the Pickle District. Themed green, the exhibition showcases an eclectic diversity of works spanning figurative to abstract painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, ceramics and installation.
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EXHIBITING ARTISTS
@nathansbeard @may_bluebell @gracecorners @meldareartist @tarryngill @luisahansal @brentharrison_ @magdaartist_majo @clarefurelise @andrewnichollsartist @conniepetrillo @walkercjackson_artgothamstudio #gothamstudiosperth #holmesacourtgallery #pickledistrict #gothamgetspickled #perthartist #
Open: 12th November - 4th December. 🟩

Last day to view Pulling Threads exhibition by Mel

Last day to view Pulling Threads exhibition by Mel Dare. Open 10am to 4pm. Gallery25, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley.

#meldare @meldareartist #pullingthreadsexhibition #soloexhibition #suestarckencurator #ecugalleries #australianartist #pertharts #lastdayofartexhibition

Photoshoot with Robert Frith today at the gallery.

Photoshoot with Robert Frith today at the gallery.

#robertfrithphotgrapher #photographingexhibition#pullingthreadsexhibition #soloexhibition #meldare @meldareartist

Remembering showing at Pulling Threads exhibition

Remembering showing at Pulling Threads exhibition by Mel Dare at Gallery25.

Image: detail then full image. Acrylic and ink on Belgium linen, 198 x 138cm, 2019-2021

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Endings are Beginnings showing in the Pulling Thre

Endings are Beginnings showing in the Pulling Threads exhibition by Mel Dare at Gallery25.

Acrylic and ink on Belgium linen, 2 X 122 x168cm), 2017

#meldare @meldareartist #soloexhibition #pullingthreadsexhibition #curatorsuestarcken#ECUgalleries #australianartist #pertharts #painting

#repost @galleries.ecu __ Last week to see the cur

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Last week to see the current exhibitions at ECU Galleries.

We're open 10am to 4pm until Thursday the 16th. New shows are bumping in on Monday! Stay tuned for more news soon!

Make the most of this week and swing by for a visit or two...

Image: Pulling Threads by Mel Dare in Gallery25 (Building 10)

Also at ECU Mt Lawley: BEASTS by Greg Molloy and BOOTY and the BUTTS show by Yvette Dunn-Moses in Spectrum Project Space (Building 3) Artist talks tomorrow at 12.30pm (free and all welcome)

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