In honour of International Women's Day 2021, the Perth Centre for Photography is pleased to present new work by all women artists from Australia and beyond. - Consumed: Stilled Lives by Dawn Woolley (UK) and A Particular Being by the Lumina Collective. On our Nightworks screen, Sequence by Lauren McCartney.
These exhibitions explore concepts of consumerism, idealisation, beauty, memory and grievibility.
OPENING NIGHT
Friday, 19 February 2021
Time: 6 pm - 8 pm
Exhibition dates: 20 February - 3 April 2021
Dawn Woolley (UK) is a visual artist and research fellow at Leeds Arts University who uses photographs of objects and people to question issues of artificiality and idealisation. She examines representations of gender in popular culture to draw attention to stereotypes. Sculpted objects – made with a variety of materials including concrete, rubbish, blancmange, and rotting meat – function as portraits of different types of consumer. We are what we consume.
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Lumina is a group of award-winning female artists from around Australia who are committed to revealing narratives within the Australian landscape and further afield. Artists include Donna Bailey, Chloe Bartram, Jessie Boylan, Aletheia Casey, Anna Maria Antoinette D'Addario, Lyndal Irons, Morganna Magee and Sarah Rhodes.
In this new major exhibition, Lumina attempts to explore notions of grievability, memory and recognition in an unstable world.
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Lauren McCartney's Sequence focuses on the fetishisation of beauty and pain through the flexibility of the female body. The work is a performance in which McCartney stretches her body, in an attempt to split her legs. This excruciating task draws from the notion that in Western culture, we are told from childhood that a woman’s value is in her physique.
Bookings are essential. Refreshments and credit card facilities available.
Image credit: Chloe Bartram, There are no black swans, 2020.
Thank you for your ongoing support of PCP. We look forward to seeing you at the gallery soon.