EVENTS
Victoria's Pride Street Party / Closing Party
Closing party as part of the Victoria Pride Party in Smith Street on the 11th of February.
The Frankenstein Show - Opening Party
The Frankenstein Show main opening party with drag performances, drinks and artists in attendance. With 29 artists, there is sure to be a crowd!
The Frankenstein Show: low sensory opening.
Low sensory art gallery opening in Smith Street, Fitzroy.
UNweaving the WILDerness
Join the artist pattie beerens as she unpicks her ideas and motivations around Unmaking and UNweaving.
pattie will practice UNweaving every day between the 25th and 28th of October. You are encouraged to UNweave and ponder the act of UNmaking with her between 2pm and 3pm each day.
UNweaving the WILDerness
Join the artist pattie beerens as she unpicks her ideas and motivations around Unmaking and UNweaving.
pattie will practice UNweaving every day between the 25th and 28th of October. You are encouraged to UNweave and ponder the act of UNmaking with her between 2pm and 3pm each day.
UNweaving the WILDerness
Join the artist pattie beerens as she unpicks her ideas and motivations around Unmaking and UNweaving.
pattie will practice UNweaving every day between the 25th and 28th of October. You are encouraged to UNweave and ponder the act of UNmaking with her between 2pm and 3pm each day.
UNweaving the WILDerness
Join the artist pattie beerens as she unpicks her ideas and motivations around Unmaking and UNweaving.
pattie will practice UNweaving every day between the 25th and 28th of October. You are encouraged to UNweave and ponder the act of UNmaking with her between 2pm and 3pm each day.
Clay Weaving Experience
Weave with wet clay in the window of a Smith Street art gallery.
FREE
Open to all. Be curious!
Community Clay Weaving - Free
Weave beside pattie beerens in the window of Smtih + Gertrude art gallery
weave with the artist
Weave beside pattie beerens in the window of Smtih + Gertrude art gallery
Weaving WILDness - pattie beerens & Rory Daniel
Weaving WILDerness is a spontaneous common, in an unexpected place, woven from an entanglement of earths, sprigs and textiles. At night projections illuminate often unseen expressions of vitality, disguised in fragility, ephermerality, and aging.
OPENING: Have You Played Today?
Nicky Tsekoulas + Zeth Cameron’s colourful and queer exhibition opens on the 21st of September.
Mastaneh Nazarian - Journey of Violets
Journey of Violets
Journey of Violets; an interactive meditation on a poem by Shafiei Kadkani.
Saturday, September 16, 7pm
Opening Night - Other People - Zoë Sydney.
Join Zoë Sydney at Smith + Gertrude to celebrate the opening of Other People.
Other People - Zoë Sydney.
OTHER PEOPLE
“Other People” is a series of portraits that explore the struggles of Queer representation and visibility. These “self portraits” are not actually of the artist, but rather of AI generated people based on a physical description of the artist. For trans people, the public face is often a site of struggle. The gendered assumptions that are read onto a face make the face a site of conflict. “Other People” challenges the fundamental tenet of the portrait - that a person’s face can give us some truth about them. The portraits are first based on AI generated images, which are then painted onto calico and then cut out and stuffed. Then, in collaboration with artificial intelligence, videos are layered over the paintings in augmented reality. THe faces ‘speak; in AR, reading poetry written by the artist in the artist’s voice. This gives the faces an added agency in the space.