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Today and tomorrow are the last days to catch Agency Ink: The Personal and Political in Print curated by Catherine Connolly, and featuring Charlotte Allingham @coffinbirth, Rachel Ang, Clea Chiller, Inez, Jess Knight, Miranda Costa, Carol Porter and myself at Counihan Gallery in Brunswick - Narrm. I’m showing work created during my current @Library_Vic Creative Fellowship, from my new series in progress (The Progressive Arts Institution prefers) The Circus of the Oppressed. This satirical poster style series examining the experiences of marginalised artists in institutional contexts is created in collaboration with 10gentle collective, a for-profit anti-oppression operation consisting of diverse creators and community builders in the progressive arts dedicated to maximising the expressions of marginalised identities for the education, inspiration and entertainment of privileged audiences. Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Rd Brunswick - Narrm. Show continues until Apr 15. Open Wed-Sat 11-5 & Sun 1-5. Image: details of Flame within the Frame (2018), pigment ink marker and synthetic polymer paint on cotton paper, 76 x 112cm / 30 x 44 in. #thecircusoftheoppressed #textaqueen #creativefellow #posterchild #10gentlecollective #multiculturalism #inclusion #diversity #diversitywithoutadversity #flamewithintheframe #tamedandtrained #diversitytickboxes #itickfourboxes #collectme #collectionoftheartist #theringmaster #firmhandshake #liberalinspiration #notaselfportrait #politicalsatire (at Counihan Gallery in Brunswick)

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This Sat Mar 24th from 2.30-3.30pm there will be artist talks at Agency Ink: The Personal and Political in Print curated by Catherine Connolly, at Counihan Gallery in Brunswick - Narrm. I’ll be talking about this work created during my current @Library_Vic Creative Fellowship, from my new series in progress (The Progressive Arts Institution prefers) The Circus of the Oppressed. This satirical poster style series examining the experiences of marginalised artists in institutional contexts is created in collaboration with 10gentle collective, a for-profit anti-oppression operation consisting of diverse creators and community builders in the progressive arts dedicated to maximising the expressions of marginalised identities for the education, inspiration and entertainment of privileged audiences. Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Rd Brunswick - Narrm. Show continues until Apr 15. Open Wed-Sat 11-5 & Sun 1-5. Image: Flame within the Frame (2018), pigment ink marker and synthetic polymer paint on cotton paper, 76 x 112cm / 30 x 44 in. TOKEN sweatshirt by @jacobvjoyce #thecircusoftheoppressed #textaqueen #creativefellow #posterchild #10gentlecollective #multiculturalism #inclusion #diversity #diversitywithoutadversity #flamewithintheframe #tamedandtrained #diversitytickboxes #itickfourboxes #collectme #collectionoftheartist #theringmaster #firmhandshake #liberalinspiration #notaselfportrait #politicalsatire (at Counihan Gallery in Brunswick)

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Tonight 6-8pm, I'll be awarding Good White Person certificates @blindside_ari for $10 for white people ($5 for Black/Indigenous/POC to award their allies). White allies, buy authentic, timeless proof of allyship tonight, I'll be personally authorising your certificate as a Person of Colour Representative, and you can be photographed receiving your certificate for further evidence of your goodness. I'll also be debuting new work made during my State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship, created in conceptual collaboration with @10gentlecollective. Part of ALWAYS THERE AND ALL A PART Curator | Andy Butler Curatorial mentor | Emily Cormack Nathan Beard, Lara Chamas, Caroline Garcia, Steven Rhall, Hari Sivanesan, Priya Srinivasan, TextaQueen When Thursday, December 7, 2017, 6pm - 8pm (occurring at same time as Night at the Nicholas pop up market) Where BLINDSIDE Nicholas Building, Level 7, Room 14, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne / Narrm Always there and all a part presents works that interrogate the complexities of navigating race in the arts. Whiteness is at the foundation of the sector, and the exhibition plays with the tension between diversity and inclusion discourse and the institutional Whiteness that frames the practices and bodies of non-White artists. Spanning both gallery spaces of BLINDSIDE, Always there and all a part unpacks what it means to make work for a White artistic community that is invested in creating an aesthetics of inclusion, while simultaneously only extending conditional invitations to diverse artists from within White spaces. The exhibition troubles these aesthetics and power dynamics at their borders and boundaries, across photography, performance, printmaking, video and installation. Opening night includes performance by Priya Srinivasan + Hari Sivanesan. With two texts on Whiteness by Andy Butler and Diego Ramirez. Wheelchair accessible. (at BLINDSIDE)