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Get Helen Reddy’s ‘I Am Woman’ cued, release the party poppers and celebrate forty years of the Women’s Art’s Register [WAR] – a slide library that holds over 20,000 images from 5000 artists. Their driving force has been persisting and insisting that women’s art matters. Hear, hear! To celebrate this milestone and their achievements, the Women’s Art Register are hosting a curated mini-festival of women’s artmaking, showcasing a huge array of female’s artistic contributions to the cultural landscape. The icing on the cake, all events are free.
Kicking off on 30 September are the exhibitions: ‘AS IF: When and now’, curated by Gail Stiffe and Rosemary Mangiamele, it showcases artists from the WAR’s past and present who responded to the question, ‘What does artmaking mean to you?’ and the ‘AS IF: small print’, curated by Danielle Hakim and Emily Castle, a collection of artists who use print as text and a medium.
Continuing through October, there are a host of events and exhibitions that zig-zag across Melbourne and showcase printmakers drawers, craft-artists, painters, sculptors and other art makers, women of varying ages. Like the viewing of 14,000 digitised slides from the WAR archives, public artist-led walks, workshops, a selection of paste-ups from the WAR image library curated by Miso, and ‘Artmaking in Tandem’ – a collaboration between artistic women who are newly settled in Melbourne and artist Rosa Tato.
Women’s Art Register 1975-2015
30 September to 31 October 2015
Melbourne
www.womensartregister40years.info
Belinda Allen, Self-portrait/Manifesto, 1981, hand-coloured silver-gelatin print, 50 x 60cm
Erica McGilchrist, Trio, 1970 from the series Enigmas, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 152.5 x 122cm
Photography: Christian Capurro
Glen Eira City Council Art Collection, Melbourne, Gift of Helen Skurnick 2008
© Estate of Erica McGilchrist
