ART PACKS

12 March – 15 April 

Opening Event 19 March 6pm - 8pm

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Artists: Chris Byrnes, Helen Dunkerley, Penny Dunstan, Emma Florence-May, Annemarie Murland, Dan Nelson, Mandy Robinson, Niomi Sands, Belinda Street, Linda Swinfield, Lezlie Tilley, Patricia Wilson-Adams  

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This exhibition aims to shine a light for those women artists who are not so easily heard above the clamour of “immediacy art”. These are women who work in the regions, who live lives on the periphery and those with very little profile despite having dedicated their lives with passion and integrity to art. We are women, old and young, mothers, partners, professionals and artists, all caught up with the vicissitudes of busy lives but in no way diminutive intellectually or aspirationally.

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Here we highlight the art of a group of women who “treads lightly” in that there is a profound quietness and a sense of comtemplation to be found in the works shown. There is also an integrity that is manifest in attention to technique, the free expression of ideas and the use of a wide range of materials.

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Women artists almost never see themselves as being heroic nor do they aggrandise, but rather they work with their truths embedded in the experiential and/or their hard fought for beliefs and understandings. They fly under the radar. Here our artists are engaging with a range of concerns and are able to tell their unique stories - letting the light shine in.​​​​