Melinda Rackham
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Lunchtime Talk: Women (seen) Western sydney university paramatta CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions Elvis Richardson and Melinda Rackham
Please join us as we will speak on Countess: Spoiling Illusions in the context of the Women (seen) exhibition at Margaret Whitlam Galleries, at the Whitlam Institute.
Women (seen) speaks of identity, community, and belonging with artworks by 20 women connected to Western Sydney through work, study, family, or home. Celebrating the critical role of visual arts literacy and training in Western Sydney ( Australia’s most culturally diverse region and home to 10 percent of our nation’s population), this exhibition is close to our hearts and research!
This FREE event is Open to the Public:
Parramatta South Campus, Building EA.G.19 (lecture theatre), 12.00pm Tuesday, 10 April 2024.
what are PEople saying about CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions since 2008 ?
A heady mix of rigorous research, harrowing and humorous blog posts, hard crunched data, theoretical musings and intimate revelations in 216 glorious full colour pages, including a gallery platforming visual art works from 40 Australian contemporary not male artists.
- Jennifer Mills reviews Spoiling Illusions in The Saturday Paper: We don’t speak enough about the emotional dimensions of these structural deficits, how it feels to play when the game’s rigged against us. This book states an intention to be “welcomingly humorous, justifiably enraging and rigorously researched”, but it exceeds those goals. Its candidness also makes it deeply moving: a heartfelt and irresistible call to action.
- Dr Dianna Carroll writes in Arts Hub It is a salutary benchmark for accountability in the arts as it dramatically quantifies the status of women and non-binary artists.