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The stories I tell myself, 2017

 

 

Underlying my 17 years of 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 my mother’s homeland Czech Republic in 2013 I 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.

 

Selected for the Bunbury Biennale 2017.  8th July – 10th September 2017

 

 

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No. 7 of Don't Be Such a Girl! series exhibiting i No. 7 of Don't Be Such a Girl! series exhibiting in Bunbury Biennale 2021 He/She/They at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery until 6th June.

Artwork details: Melanie Dare, Don't Be Such a Girl 7, ink and acrylic on canvas, 40.7 X 40.7cm, 2021

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No. 6 of Don't Be Such a Girl! series exhibiting i No. 6 of Don't Be Such a Girl! series exhibiting in Bunbury Biennale 2021 He/She/They at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery until 6th June.

Artwork details: Melanie Dare, Don't Be Such a Girl 6, ink and acrylic on canvas, 40.7 X 40.7cm, 2021

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No. 5 of Don't Be Such a Girl! series exhibiting i No. 5 of Don't Be Such a Girl! series exhibiting in Bunbury Biennale 2021 He/She/They at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery until 6th June.

Artwork details: Melanie Dare, Don't Be Such a Girl 5, ink and acrylic on canvas, 30.9 X 30.9cm, 2021

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No. 4 of Don't Be Such a Girl! series exhibiting i No. 4 of Don't Be Such a Girl! series exhibiting in Bunbury Biennale 2021 He/She/They at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery until 6th June.

Artwork details: Melanie Dare, Don't Be Such a Girl 4, ink and acrylic on canvas, 30.9 x 30.9cm, 2021

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No. 3 of Don't Be Such a Girl! series exhibiting i No. 3 of Don't Be Such a Girl! series exhibiting in Bunbury Biennale 2021 He/She/They at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery until 6th June.

Artwork details: Melanie Dare, Don't Be Such a Girl 3, ink and acrylic on canvas, 30.9 X 30.9cm, 2021

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No. 2 of Don't Be Such a Girl! series exhibiting i No. 2 of Don't Be Such a Girl! series exhibiting in Bunbury Biennale 2021 He/She/They at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery until 6th June.

Artwork details: Melanie Dare, Don't Be Such a Girl 2, ink and acrylic on canvas, 30.9 X 30.9cm, 2021

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No. 1 of Don't Be Such a Girl! series exhibiting i No. 1 of Don't Be Such a Girl! series exhibiting in Bunbury Biennale 2021 He/She/They at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery until 6th June.

Artwork details: Melanie Dare, Don't Be Such a Girl 1, coloured pencil, ink and acrylic on canvas, 40.7 X 40.7cm, 2021

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Detail of one of my paintings for Bunbury Biennale Detail of one of my paintings for Bunbury Biennale 2021 @brag opening tomorrow 06/03/2021.

The Biennale's theme HE | SHE | THEY is a journey into gender identity. The exhibition of 37 WA artist's artwork explores notions of inclusion and diversity, celebrating the heterogeneity of gender within Western Australian culture and community. 

Don't Be Such a Girl (detail), acrylic paint and ink on canvas, 2021

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