Working in the studio, in the garden, beating wings into place and bringing stories to life with clay.
Rebecca Odgers new work for BIRDSONG 🐦⬛ is taking shape.
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BIRDSONG
A gathering of women, birds, and voices
There is something about birds. The way they move through the world without asking permission, carrying what needs to be carried, crossing distances that seem impossible. This exhibition began with that feeling and slowly gathered a group of women around it.
Birdsong brings together painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, textile, video and sound in a conversation that has been building for months. It began around a kitchen table and moved outside under the sky on the peninsula, in studios and gardens and morning routines. The artists come from different places and different cultures: from this ancient Australian country and from Athens and from the quiet of everyday life. What they share is a way of speaking through making, through material, through forms that shift and refuse to stay fixed.
At the heart of the exhibition is a video work — three women in a garden, talking the way birds chatter in a tree, wandering and funny and then suddenly profound and a live soundscape composed by guitarist Meredith Connie, who will perform at the opening alongside the singer Christelise de Graaf, their voices joining the birdsong that runs through the whole exhibition like a thread.
Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants
🐦⬛FEATURED ARTISTS
Rebecca Marshall
Meredith Connie
Tarni Free
Rebecca Odgers
Enid Marshall
Christina Darras
Michelle Cann
Christelise de Graaf
🐦⬛Opening Night
Thursday June 4 | 6–8pm
Queen Victoria Women’s Centre
Ground Floor, 210 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Please RSVP
🐦⬛Birdsong Workshop: Weaving with Cardboard
Friday June 12 | 1:30–3pm
Book workshop tickets from bio
🐦⬛Birdsong Musical Soirée
Friday June 19 | Doors 5:30pm | Performance 6–7:30pm
Book soirée tickets from bio
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Join me and a group of exceptional artist on Thursday evening for LIQUID @_altaforma_ opening celebration 5.30-7.30pm Thursday 5 March, exhibition continues to 4 April
Liquid features artists who explore the transformative qualities of materials that flow, run, drip, create film, are transparent, shift, move and sometimes solidify or set into concrete forms. This liquid quality is also investigated through shape, colour, line and form. In Photoshop the “Liquify” tool is a filter used to reshape and distort content by pushing, pulling and twisting to transform. Each of these practices utilise liquid qualities in physical experimentation with material but also in their methodological approaches to making, shifting meaning and resisting characterisation or boundaries of discipline and genre. Liquid features artists who actively use liquid methodologies in making artworks that respond to political, cultural and environmental concerns.
I am exhibiting a series of objects exploring Cobalt, Copper and Iron.
I am seeking objects of desire that draw our attention to the beauty of everyday acts. The feeling and the presence of the object being the foremost element.
This is intrinsically connected to my hatha yoga practice and study that is mystical and esoteric. A practice like clay that is steeped in ritual, is transformative and elemental.
Material development @soca_brunswick
The body is amazing, humans are incredible, nothing is good, nothing is bad, it is all just energy, I’m a weakling, I’m strong, I’m an idiot, I’m brilliant, I’m nothing, I’m everything, and the days go by, water flowing under, into the blue again, after the moneys gone, once in life time, you’ll be alright, it’s gonna be alright.
Exploration of celadon @soca_brunswick
Test cube babies
A team effort exploring celadon with SoCA my companions.
#glazetest #celadon #green #jade #melbourneceramics #reduction #australianceramics #
#poeticsofglaze
