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Lee-Anne Raymond – Painting 10A – are the burqa and nica a matter of fashion or choice? #Melbourne #painters

isochronos metamorphosis with nicab by lee anne raymond

Lee-Anne Raymond currently exhibiting in a group show Painting 10A, at the Brunswick Street Gallery #Melbourne. A range of artists will be represented, all are painters. Lee-Anne has created 4 new works challenging the misconception that the burqa and nicab are a matter of fashion or choice providing the wearer with security and empowerment.

Painting 10A
Until 14th July, 2010
Brunswick Street Gallery
2/322 Brunswick St
Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia

www.leeanneart.com
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Gallery 9 Presents ‘Ad Astra’ Exhibition

21 July – 14 August 2010 :: Sydney, Australia

Ad Astra, by artist Adam Norton, reflects on the desire for space travel, and contains a series of paintings comparing past individuals and present agencies involved in Space exploration, both physically and imaginatively.

For more information visit www.gallery9.com.au

Virion – screen based digital art exhibition – Artists Submissions Now Open until July 14th. #geekgirl

Virion July 19 – August 1: Artists Submissions Now Open

Virion provides artists the opportunity to display their work across a network of public screens and access a diverse audience throughout Brisbane. The exhibition is open to all users from professional and emerging artists to people experimenting with cameras and scanners. There is no juried selection process and each work is given equal showing time. Submissions may be in the form of digital stills or video files up to 100MB each. All submissions also play on the Virion website. Each screen will play a compilation of diverse images and video that represents a wide & integrated range of local and international art practices and styles. Screens are located across a range of public, gallery and institutional sites to offer unique viewing experiences and to maximize & diversify Brisbane audiences’ exposure to new media practices. Screens include: AXIOM Estate Agents, The Exchange, Blue Lotus, Urban Dental, Health Stream Fitness Club, QUT Health Clinics – Podiatry and Optometry, Queensland Academy for Creative Industries, the Creative Industries Precinct, H‐Block Gallery and The Edge.

Online Artist submissions are now open.
To be included in the opening of the exhibition submissions must be received by July 14.

Sum of these holes: new pinhole works by Steph Tout #Melbourne

until – 1 July 2010
Brunswick Street Gallery, 322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne

An exhibition exploring perceptual processes through dreamlike photographs of place, taken with a camera made from a biscuit tin. Photographer Steph Tout has used simple hands-on technology drawn from more than a century ago to create stunning images that immerse the viewer in a variety of intricate, non-linear yet cohesive landscapes.  Impressions have been gathered from sites both wild and urban, from Kinglake’s regrowth to the cobbled streets of Brussels. Tout’s photographs from the past two years are brought together in her first Melbourne solo show.

www.stephtout.com.au
www.brunswickstreetgallery.com.au

Birthday Suit – the Winter 2010 #fashion offering from the #Kingpins

Jordan Graham for Birthday Suit 2010

The Emperor got around in his birthday suit when two sneaky weavers promised him the finest suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who was an incompetent ninny. Ninny he was – not because he couldn’t see the fabric, but because he trusted a pair of mimes. Mimes are creepy, everyone knows that.

This Birthday Suit collection is the opposite of invisible. Where some collections have one story behind them and others have none, the Winter 2010 offering from transgressive drag all-femme improv group The Kingpins has about five different narratives underpinning its hitched full petticoats, butterfly ikat prints and trademark catsuits. It’s wild west crossed with ancient tribal and a touch of S&M.

Hitting the racks this week, get your hands on the Smokin’ silk tee , or the teal corduroy jumpsuit and you’ll guarantee your crown jewels are well and truly covered with the most outlandishly stylish of threads. You’re no ninny in the nuddy.

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Kissing frogs by Andee Jones. Finding #love online over 40 – is it possible?

Once upon a time, using a social dating website would have labelled you as ‘desperate’ or ‘lonely’. Now it’s a rite of passage for singles on their journey to find another. An influx of men and women, 40 and above, are braving the dating market ­constituting what is now a movement,  courtesy of the computer age. According to Australia’s largest social dating website, Oasis Active, men and women over the age of 36 years make up over 30% of those signed up and looking for love online.

But is love really just a mouse click away?

At 50-something, Australian psychologist Andee Jones found out. Looking for companionship with a view to love, but not marriage, Andee did what other single people seemed to be doing and launched herself into the wide world of online dating. What transpired was Kissing Frogs ­ a true but cautionary tale of the pleasures and pitfalls of the online dating scene.

About the author

Andee Jones is a Melbourne-based psychologist. She holds a PhD and has worked as an educator at both secondary and tertiary levels .

A psychologist goes looking for love online – and finds trouble!
$24.95, 176 pages, paperback (208mm x 148mm)
ISBN 9781921462191
Publication: July 2010
Category: Relationships

Snapshot – ‘Darlinghurst Eats Its Young’ – part of the Left Coast Festival

Thursday, May 20, 2010
6:00pm – 8:00pm
SEDITION-the barbershop
275 Victoria St Darlinghurst
Sydney, Australia
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ONE SHOT! Football and Contemporary Art

Freddy CONTRERAS, Stud XI (detail), 1996 Mixed Technique (installation of 11 pairs of shoes with spikes), 250 x 500 x 45 cm © Leslie Artamonow

One Shot!

To Write Love on Her Arms Day – April 21st

To Write Love on Her Arms Day That’s right, another TWLOHA day!!

To Write Love on Her Arms is a “non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide.” The idea of a TWLOHA day is quite simple: write the word “love” on your arm on April 21st. The goal is to raise awareness of those who are hurting as well as promote TWLOHA’s work to provide hope, help, and support. Please join us as we come together to support the love movement and invite your friends.

Excerpt from TWLOHA’s vision statement: The vision is that community and hope and help would replace secrets and silence. The vision is people putting down guns and blades and bottles. The vision is that we can reduce the suicide rate in America and around the world. The vision is that we would learn what it means to love our friends, and that we would love ourselves enough to get the help we need. The vision is better endings. The vision is the restoration of broken families and broken relationships. The vision is people finding life, finding freedom, finding love. The vision is graduation, a Super Bowl, a wedding, a child, a sunrise. The vision is people becoming incredible parents, people breaking cycles, making change. The vision is the possibility that your best days are ahead. The vision is the possibility that we’re more loved than we’ll ever know.

The vision is hope, and hope is real. You are not alone, and this is not the end of your story.

To view TWLOHA’s full vision statement and learn more, visit http://www.twloha.com/vision/