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ItemHow I Will Change(RMIT University, 2018)
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ItemDeclaration(Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), 2018)
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ItemThis Wild Song(Atrium Gallery, Australian High Commission, 2018)The exhibition This Wild Song was a survey of contemporary artworks by 21 significant Australian female artists to Singapore and will be presented at the Australian High Commission. The exhibition was timed to coincide with International Women’s Day in March of 2018.
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ItemNeedleman Feminist Fan(Chapter House Lane Gallery, 2018)Needleman, Feminist Fan is an exhibition of the work of Kate Just and Robert Brain, two artists exploring the political potential of weaving and needlework. It explored the ways that artistic practice, gender, sexuality, and art history overlap within both artist’s practices. Robert Brain’s tapestries comprise a range of influences that comment on his personal experiences, dreams and desires. By borrowing from art history and informed by gender politics, Brain creates works layered with humour and unexpected juxtapositions. Similarly, the hand knitted works of Kate Just present a selection of portraits of celebrated feminist artists in a laboured act of devotion and self-portraiture. The series title, Feminist Fan, emphasises Just’s reverence of each of these artists and to feminism, furthered by an accompanying fan letter shared via social media with the hashtag #feministfan.
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ItemUnfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism(Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2017)
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ItemCan't touch this(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019-01-01)Kate Just also considers power and labour, but in a very different way. Her 2011–2013 work is a response to the history of the Palaeolithic Venus of Willendorf figurine, and it spells out ‘Venus’ in large cardboard letters across the gallery floor. Each letter is encased in fabric that has been knitted by Just and 55 other women. Made from tough jute string, the fabric is not just decorative. It also seems to shape and contain the letters, but the relationship is not made entirely clear. The tension here comes from thinking about what would happen to the cardboard letters, and the language and power structures they represent, if the network made by the women was removed. Total collapse? A tilt? Nothing at all?
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ItemThe Public Body .2(Art Space, 2017)The second exhibition in a three-part speculation on one idea, this year THE PUBLIC BODY .02 brings together the work of over forty artists and collectives from the 1970s to the present, integrating the archival and the contemporary to draw connections between works across decades. Extending on THE PUBLIC BODY .01’s exploration of contemporary representations of the body and, in particular, the naked and/or sexualised body, the second iteration delves further back to highlight a range of practices embedded in feminist, queer and anti-racist subjectivities. The exhibition includes new works alongside key contributions from renowned artists whose practices have been central to contemporary art’s consideration of the body as agent and instrument. In THE PUBLIC BODY .02 bodies are displaced, contaminated, insatiable and vulnerable; attempting to function within the constraints of the flesh and challenging its limits through a performative refrain. Bodies are both witnessed and witnessing. Some take refuge in the safety and power of distinct communities and networks, while others struggle to free themselves from the dictates of systems that reduce and subjugate.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableNo Woman is an Island(Blindside Gallery, 2017)No Woman is an Island is an ambitious group exhibition of Australian artists that focuses on female experience through the conceptual framework of the ‘female gaze’. Through the eyes of women artists, the exhibition explores the shift in perception that comes with different ages and phases of life. The artists engage diverse practices to touch on a an array of relationships to womanhood and also explore the theme of woman as Object vs Subject – thereby challenging, complicating, and confronting the traditional notion of a ‘male gaze’ in art.
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ItemVictorian Craft Award(Craft, 2017)The Victorian Craft Awards, presented by Craft Victoria, is Victoria’s largest biennial exhibition of craft artists, showcasing excellence and innovation across all mediums.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableBody and Cloth(Australian Tapestry Workshop, 2017)