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Thawed, 2019

Thaw is a response to participating in the Silence Awareness Existence residency at Arteles Creative Creatre, Finland early 2018.

 

“Held during the Northern winter in the middle of the Finnish countryside I felt the snow covered land resonate with me in a profound way. I have been in snow many times before but never experienced the day to day reality of gazing out at fields of white freezing the land underneath. Tranquil, beautiful and deadly. Vivid blue shadows moved from left to right with the progression of the day. I would go for walks. At first my ears rang in the silent. Looking out at the snow I imagining what was underneath it. I felt an inevitable midlife crisis was replaced with something else. I remembered my childhood, saw the pattern of behaviour which traced my life. At times in contrast to the way I wanted to define myself. There were periods of clarity and periods of confusion in the context of a new land, new culture, a foreign climate. In the weeks before we left the temperature changed. Patches of green grass dotted the ground. As the landscape started to thaw so did I.”

 

The painting Thaw was exhibited in the group exhibition “Collective States” at Art Collective WA, Perth 1st – 22nd December 2018.

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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. 

#meldareartist #gothamgetspickled #groupexhibition @gallery.hac #australianartist #gothamstudios #contemporaryartist #painting
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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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 #repost @galleries.ecu
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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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