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Cheryl Adam
Although producing art for most of her life, Cheryl only had the opportunity to study in her menopausal years, completing a Master of Fine Art in 2003. She knits, sculpts, performs, and writes poetry. Responding to the feminist discussions on f-agenda, Cheryl was inspired to knit a suit of armour from tin foil. It is called The Celibate Suit (pictured). She also makes sculptures from discarded foil and plastic bags. Examples of these are Crone Armour and Tethered Dick. Cheryl is a recycler, using recycling as a metaphor for ageing women and her concerns for the environment. You can email Cheryl at cheryladam@optusnet.com.au.
Gertrude Green
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last updated 19 Mar 2008
Suzanne Bellamy
Suzanne is an Australian artist and writer, living in southern rural New South Wales on land near the tiny village of Mongarlowe. She directs Mongarlowe Studio Workshops, a print, sculpture and ceramic studio. Both Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein are strong influences in her work, which includes writing, sculpture, painting, graphic scores, and performance. She is currently doing a PhD at the University of Sydney on the early research of Australian artist and writer Nuri Mass, and working on a book about her ten year Visual Essay project on Virginia Woolf. In 1996 she wrote an archaeological satire called The Lost Culture of Women's Liberation, the Pre-Dynastic Phase 1969-1974. This was most recently presented at the Feminist Hullaballoo in Santa Fe New Mexico USA in June 2007. She has written a number of essays on feminist history/theory/autobiography, including "The Narrow Bridge of Art and Politics". Learn more and contact Suzanne through her website at http://www.suzannebellamy.com.
The Transit of Patriarchy (2006)
Lisa Bellear (1961 - 2006)
Lisa was an Indigenous poet, writer, visual artist and social commentator. Lisa died in her sleep in July 2006, aged forty-five. A stolen child, Lisa was born in Melbourne. She published her first poetry collection in 1996, Dreaming in Urban Areas. Arguably her best-known poem, Native Title Now, was nominated for the 1995 Human Rights Award for Poetry, and provided the title for a national exhibition of Aboriginal art. Lisa’s photography was exhibited at the Athens Olympics in 2004, and will be exhibited at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Lisa hosted the weekly radio show, ‘Not another Koori show’, for over ten years on the Victorian community radio station 3CR. Her passion for social change led her to campaign for both feminists and lesbians, as well as Aboriginal Australians.
I have not been able to find an image of Lisa's work. I would be grateful if someone could email me one.
Janelle Evans
Janelle is a poet, author, and artist whose work includes black and white drawings and watercolour paintings. Janelle comes from a long line of strong aboriginal women who have been caretakers of the land, keepers of the stories and fearless advocates against male violence. Her work is strongly influenced by two beliefs: that women should be equal to men, and that women have a different viewpoint to men that should be included in all decision making. An example of her drawing is Woman’s Dreaming, pictured here. Her anthology Crowfeathers and her children’s book Junjardee and the Redbank can be purchased here. For more information, Janelle can be contacted at fwb.vin.tmsg@beyond.net.au.
Lariane Fonseca
Lariane was born in Mumbai, India, in 1951 and now lives in Geelong, Australia. She is a photographer and digital storyteller, and Australian exhibitions of her work have been resounding successes. She is currently undertaking her PhD, using innovative means of recording data through digital story telling and photography to investigate ideas of dislocation and the impact that leaving your own culture has on the development of your self identity. Her photographic book, If Passion Were a Flower…, is inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf and the paintings of Georgia O’Keefe. She works in the Faculty of Life and Social Science at Swinburne University, Melbourne. She can be contacted at LFonseca@groupwise.swin.edu.au.
Susan Hawthorne
Susan works in several art forms including aerials performance and novel and poetry writing. She is also an academic, political activist and publisher. Her poetry is used in her circus performances. Her poetry and aerials explore themes such as the false limitations put on those who live with epilepsy, lesbian culture(s), the torture of lesbians, fear, and the challenges girls and women face in keeping their health. Susan’s work has been performed around Australia and in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Taking risks and extending the possibilities of language and performance are central to her work, which includes Unstopped Mouths (1997), Gravity Defied (2003), and Eye of a Needle (2005). Virginia Woolf and the poet Hilda Doolittle have long fascinated Susan, and strongly influenced her work Greek. To read more about the politics of her performances, see her article titled Aerial Bodies and Lesbians: The Politics of Physical Expression, in Trivia: Voices of Feminism. Vol. 6. http://www.triviavoices.net/current/hawthorne.html. To contact Susan email her at hawsu@spinifexpress.com.au.
Brenda Lewis
Brenda Lewis began her art training at the Brisbane Technical College and the Martyn Roberts Art School. Brenda then studied in London at the Chelsea School of Arts. Her exposure to the British modernist art movement during this period has had a profound effect on her distinctive modernist-reductivist style. Brenda has exhibited widely in Australia as well as London. Her themes range from figure paintings and minimalist drawing to innovative feminist-inspired work.
Marion Ellis Rowan (1847 – 1922)
Known as Ellis Rowan, Ellis was an Australian naturalist and well-known illustrator. Her watercolour paintings of wild flowers are noted for being botanically informative as well as artistic. Often in the company of her painting companion Margaret Forrest, Ellis travelled Australia, North America, and New Guinea painting the local flora. In 1905 she held a successful exhibition in London, before returning to Australia and holding exhibitions of her work, which sold at comparatively high prices. In 1920 she held the largest solo exhibition seen in Australia at the time, when she exhibited 1000 of her works in Sydney. Her works include A Flower-Hunter in Queensland and New Zealand (1898), which is based on letters to her husband and friends; and she provided the illustrations for some books by Alice Lounsberry, including A Guide to the Wild Flowers (1899), Guide to the Trees (1900), and Southern Wild Flowers and Trees (1901).
Entry into this page is open to any woman artist who is Australian, and identifies as a radical feminist.
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