Lovely Ellie and I working on new fish hats for the Nylon Zoo
The fish hats were such a big hit in Kauai, Hawaii this past July, and also at this years Womadelaide world music festival in South Australia.
Beginning with the Seventies GLUT Exhibition
January 12-April 8, 2018
I am delighted to be exhibiting as part of the GLUT Exhibition!
Celebrating the excessive abundance of the archive, Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT is concerned with language, depictions of the woman reader as an artistic genre and the potential of reading as performed resistance. Central to the exhibition, Rereading Room is a reconstruction of the Vancouver Women’s Bookstore (1973-1996) in the second iteration of a project by Alexandra Bischoff.
Thirteen artists, writers, theorists and researchers have been invited to occupy the installation as The Readers for the duration of the exhibition, working with and against the inventory by reading, annotating and supplementing the collection to form a dossier of responses. A textile multiple by Kathy Slade will wrap and adorn The Readers and lingering visitors. Lisa Robertson finds in Baudelaire’s dandy a tangible presence for old women in public spaces in her limited-edition letterpress book Proverbs of a She-Dandy.
A multitude of artworks dating from 1968 to 2017 explore language as a medium and material including works by Allyson Clay, Judith Copithorne, Gathie Falk, Jamelie Hassan, Germaine Koh, Laiwan, Sara Leydon, Divya Mehra, Adrian Piper, Kristina Lee Podesva, Anne Ramsden, Evelyn Roth and Elizabeth Zvonar, among others, that are drawn from the Belkin Art Gallery collection, the Kamloops Art Gallery, SFU Galleries, the Surrey Art Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT is curated by Lorna Brown and is the first of four exhibitions based upon the Belkin Art Gallery’s research project investigating the 1970s, an era when social movements of all kinds – feminism, environmentalism, LGBTQ rights, access to health services and housing – began to coalesce into models of self-organization that overlapped with the production of art and culture. Noting the resurgence of art practice involved with social activism and an increasing interest in the 1970s from younger producers, the Belkin has connected with diverse archives and activist networks to bring forward these histories, to commission new works of art and writing and to provide a space for discussion and debate.
The Beginning with the Seventies project is made possible with the generous support of the Vancouver Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, our Belkin Curator’s Forum members and the Department of Canadian Heritage Young Canada Works Program.
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Evelyn Roth talks to Fritz Mag at her vibrant Maslin Beach home
Fritzmag.com.au pops in for a visit with the iconic South Australian based artist Evelyn Roth at her Maslin Beach home. If you've ever been to WOMADelaide, chances are you know the work of Evelyn Roth. Her inflatable Nylon Zoo creations are a hit every year with the kids and grownups alike. A riot of colour and whimsy awaits you...discover her story in the inaugural issue of Fritz Mag, out now in selected Foodland outlets, for your free slice of South Australian life.
Exciting and busy 2015
Now near the end of March, 2015 has so far been a very busy year. On February 28 and March 1 the Goldfish and Beluga Whale provided loads of tactile fun to a sea of young children at Adelaide’s Writer’s Week. My wonderful story teller Greg Wood - dressed as “Vegetable Man” had the kiddies captivated with his stories. Two beautiful days.
Once again the Nylon Zoo appeared at Womadelaide March 6-9, this our 20 th year at this wonderful world music festival, one of the best in the world. My newly created Dung Beetle was on show, this even travelled to Naracoorte, SA for a show at Naracoorte Caves on Sunday March 8 so was a very busy weekend.
Ipswich Queensland and off to Hawaii
I travelled to Ipswich, Queensland last week (March 17) to install the huge climbing crocheted nylon webs at the Ipswich Art Gallery. These will be used by 500 + children per day for 2 months. They certainly well be well used!
In May I will heading off to Kauai, Hawaii to do workshops making 2 monk seals, these are an endangered species. Our dear friend Mark Jeffers, who owns and operates the Hawaii Story Book Theatre in Hanapepe, has commissioned me to create these seals. I will be taking along an old friend, the giant seal created over 25 years ago.