Glass Cinders and Thorns II @ 323 East Gallery

Glass Cinders and Thorns II was held over the weekend @ 323 East Gallery

In November 2012, 323East Gallery will once again host Glass, Cinder & Thorns. The all-women, fairy-tale inspired group exhibition at 323East Gallery in 2009 made such a huge impact both locally and nationally, that we decided to bring it back! Many of the artists from the first exhibition will be returning but there will be also be some great new artists as well. 

"As children, our parents often read us bedtime stories of little mermaids, sleeping beauties, and little red riding hoods. However, these seemingly innocent stories often had evil lurking within their pages. The more we age, the more we realize how wonderful being an innocent child can sometimes be. Losing ourselves in fantasies of white horses, magic, and dazzling princesses. What Disney failed to mention is that the mermaid dies, multiple suitors defiled sleeping beauty, and the wolf ate grandma. Horrible things happen everyday and we all sometimes wish for a place and time where life is simpler and better. We find ourselves yearning for the warmth of our childhood beds, the calming voice of our parents, and the journey back to that enchanted world. Yet we must remember that even in fairylands of beauty and glitter, evil things creep about in false glamours. It may be the evil witch living in the gingerbread house or a beautiful sea nymph singing you into your watery grave." - April Segedi

Moon Gloom - oil on canvas

Strawberry Mothers Milk

 'Strawberry Mothers Milk' is a small solo exhibition which will be held today at 6pm at Auguste Clown Gallery , Australia's leading Pop Surrealist Gallery.

Initially it was booked in with another Gallery who found some of the works to be too 'sexually explicit' and could not guarantee they would be hung, I thought this was ridiculous and made a little statement regarding the matter on my Facebook ArtPage

“Thematically, I was interested in exploring spiritual and esoteric personal experiences from a feminine perspective. I have drawn inspiration from my past, as well as biology, and the sexual connection we as women have to nature, such as the synchronicity of our menstrual cycle to the phases of the moon. My piece ‘Rite of Passage’ is my own personal commentary on suburban pubescent psycho-tropic initiations and coming of age. Some of my pieces were inspired by religious iconography and the pseudo-symbology and reverence surrounding them. I like the aesthetics of religious icons, and I’m interested in how the female body is revered and falsely understood and appropriated in religious symbolism. I wanted to explore the juxtaposition between pagan and catholic religious symbols.

‘Strawberry Mothers Milk’ is the conceptual unity of the woman & girl that resides in all females. A girl who drinks strawberry milk and a woman who has the biological means to breast feed milk to her child are not so different. We are both girl and woman, and it’s the creative expression of the sexual and spiritual journey that interests me”

Godless

Milk Petals

Worship only the Moon

You can see the rest online at Auguste Clown

CURVY Blogging

I am now doing some blogging for  CURVY. I will be updating with International news on artists and exhibitions.

You can view my profile and pieces here and check out my Christmas Gift Guide here!

International fave amongst lovers of art and supporters of female artists, the annual CURVY book and exhibition series presents a selection of the most exciting female graphic artists and illustrators in the world today.

Each year, over 120 next-generation, established and underground female artists are featured in the book from design capitals including Paris, London, LA, New York, Berlin, Rome,Tokyo and Sydney – and from countries as far afield as Ecuador, Mexico, Czech Republic, Russia, Serbia, Brazil, Indonesia, Norway, Malta and Israel. 

First launched in Sydney Australia in 2002, CURVY continues to be a best-selling publication and cult phenomenon around the globe. The latest edition, the sixth in the annual series, builds on the exciting momentum of previous years and introduces the next wave of female talent set to break boundaries. 

To date over 650 female artists have been showcased through CURVY. The latest group of artists in the series has been handpicked out of submissions from over 40 countries and follows on in the footsteps of previous featured artists such as French street-art heroine Fafi and the ethereal Audrey Kawasaki among many others. 

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Nothing to Nobody Magazine - Mystery Spice

I have a feature interview in the latest Nothing to Nobody issue 6 alongside some wonderful artists including the lovely Cammy d'Errico 

You can download yourself a copy here