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Join Julie Ha and Panda Wong in ‘dreaming with dogs’, a two-part workshop series that focuses on dogs as subjects, collaborators and companions. Guided by a pup’s perspective, how can we imagine the world in new ways?

To quote Donna Haraway in The Companion Species Manifesto, ‘...dogs are not surrogates for theory; they are not here just to think with. They are here to live with…’ The first workshop will be a dog-focused reading group, where we will discuss dogs’ potential as artistic collaborators and their significance as our closest companion species. The second workshop will be a doggy life drawing session led by local artist Lorilee Yang.

You are welcome to BYO dog, but please ensure that they are vaccinated, well-behaved and on a leash at all times for the safety of all pups and people.

All materials will be provided. Places will be capped at 15 per workshop.

  • (Our guest mentor for life drawing group) Lorilee Yang is a Naarm-based artist whose work explores the mundaneness of everyday life via painted dreamscapes. Lorilee has exhibited at galleries such as C3 Contemporary, Seventh gallery, TCB, Blindside ARI, BUS projects, amongst others.

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    Readings will be sent out beforehand in a document, printed versions will also be available at the workshop.

    • doggy reading group – 13 Aprilsome text
      • Location: Sheltered area outside SEVENTH (TBC recce Friday)
      • READINGS SENT via EMAIL by  Friday 12 April
      • 11am–11:15: Meet at SEVENTH. Introductions + sniff time + welcome + acknowledgement of country
      • 11:15–12:00: Discussion of readings in the document sent out
      • 12-12:20: Short break/lunch (hopefully, snacks provided)
      • 12:20–1:00: Continuation of readings, wrap up, maybe end with a short writing exercise.
    • doggy life drawing group – 20 Aprilsome text
      • Location: Citizen Park (Sheltered area possible substitute dependent on weather?
      • 11am: Meet at SEVENTH first then go to Citizen together? Introductions/sniff time + welcome + acknowledgment of country
      • 11:15am-12:00: Quick sketch warm-ups followed up by free drawing
      • 12:00-12:20: Lunch break
      • 12:20-1: More drawing + hanging, wrap up with a sharing session.

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    Panda Wong and Julie Ha

    dreaming with dogs

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    In Celtic folklore, the Selkie, a shapeshifting creature, traverses between seal and female form. The Selkie’s fate takes a turn when her seal skin is stolen by a man, driven by greed and desire, condemning her to life on land. Trapped in human form and thrust into motherhood, she yearns for meaning amidst disconnection. After many years, she finds her stolen skin, a symbol of her liberation, prompting her decision to abandon her human life and reclaim her authentic self underneath the waves.

    The Reclamation features seven intaglio etchings inspired by the Selkie’s plight, that echo the estrangement from both body and land that permeates modern life. Each etching is a meditation on the nature of being in a body, the figures depicted shift between states of subjugation and empowerment, restraint and freedom, domesticity and emancipation. The works unveil a sense of the body’s inherent vulnerability while celebrating its enduring resilience amidst the tides of existence.

    Sarah Drinan appears courtesy of FUTURES.

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    Sarah Drinan

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    The Sunny State for Shady Characters

    Anna McDermott with Paul Hogarty

    [TW: death, addiction]

     

    The Sunny State for Shady Characters complicates notions of dirtiness and cleanliness, consumption and abstinence, through a quasi-memorial to Paul Hogarty (1960-2019). Paul was Anna’s uncle—an artist, musician, and addict—who died alone in his St Kilda apartment in April 2019 with drugs found in his system. Anna quit drinking eighteen months later.

    Grounded in her personal experience of recovery, The Sunny State for Shady Characters recontextualises Paul’s archives to contemplate and subvert tropes associated with the failed-artist, successful-addict paradigm, and vice versa.

     
    The dual meaning of the word ‘grit’ or ‘gritty’ is important: 1) dirt; abrasive in character; 2) courage, determination; an exerted effort. Whilst possessing the latter definition may be applauded, the former directs one towards a societal fringe or edge(iness).

    Failure, shame, desire and will are examined through an unburying of inked soliloquies, foreplay with a dirty martini, and an encore from 80s punk band, Roaring Mungrel.

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    Titled 'Circling the plane' , Eleanor Amor and Lorna Quinn have been curated into a two person exhibition in Seventh's Gallery 3 by Isabella Hone-Saunders. Though their works are disparate they share a connectedness in their thematic underpinnings and visual language, each referencing German Expressionism or the notable colour palettes frequently used by Surrealist artists. Key concepts drawn upon consider human fantasies, anxieties, speculative imaginations and dreams are investigated through Eleanor's sculptures and Lorna's paintings. Both practitioners present meticulous works, despite their not sharing the same medium, they are complementary and considered when set together and encourage a broader dialogue that reflects on landscapes, possible environments, architecture and shelter. - Isabella Hone-Saunders

    Eleanor Amor's artist statement: For this exhibition, I've constructed a series of sculptures that capture the unsettling nature of anxiety dreams. Drawing inspiration from German Expressionist set design, the architectural landscapes depicted in Giorgio De Chirico’s metaphysical paintings, and common dream motifs, I aim to present sculptural works that touch on themes of feeling lost, trapped, or watched.

    Anxiety dreams often induce a profound sense of entrapment, where individuals grapple with feelings of being lost, pursued, or surveyed. These dreams manifest as distorted spaces, labyrinthine environments, reminiscent but altered locations and elusive destinations. For this exhibition, I intend to recreate this sensation through sculptures that feature uncanny paneless windows, staircases with no destination, and the intricate pathways of a labyrinth within a hallway.

    Each artwork is designed to evoke a sense of foreboding and claustrophobia. By creating works that reference home, each piece provides an eerie sense of familiarity without a sense of safety.

    Lorna Quinn's artist statement: In this body of work, I’m interested in the illusory nature of desire and the fantasies that house it. Responding to the ambiguities of the present, I crave a more legible order. I imagine a dwelling place, a vessel, in which everything is visible and truth is absolute. By making pictures of literal contexts, containers I can orient myself in, I aim to exteriorize and then subsume a fantasy of wholeness. 

    The fantasies we use to propel forward our lives are undermined in their contact with it. These visions remain intact within the imagination, but when touched by the real are exposed for their vacuity. My paintings are intended as vessels of shelter, but, embodied, instead form an enclosure around the void, as desire vacates and takes up residence in the next object.

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    Eleanor Amor and Lorna Quinn

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