Summer School 24/25

Sapphic Seventh: Collected In/Visible Writings (Chapbook Launch)

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January 2025

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Jan

2025

Sapphic Seventh: Collected In/Visible Writings (Chapbook Launch)

Summer School 24/25

22

January 2025

22

January

2025

During the summer holidays of 2024/25, we ran a six-week, practice-led course titled Sapphic Reading and Writing, created for sapphic writers and artists. This project drew inspiration from the Women’s Art Register archive, housed in the Richmond Library. Seventh gratefully acknowledges the support of Lesbians Incorporated (LInc), whose funding made this project possible.

The project culminates in the release of this chapbook, paired with a deconstructed and extended version displayed across the walls and spaces of Seventh's galleries. Spilling out from the white cube and the blank page into various unpublishable forms, participants’ interconnected works explore themes such as queer time, space, and architecture; failure, drafting, and incompleteness; the layered roles of archives, memory, and visibility; sapphic love, friendship, and fate; bodies, sex, and the senses; and the complexities of language, labels, identities, and genres. Together, these works form a chaotic, messy, and queer takeover of Seventh, creating an ephemeral archive-in-space.

We are excited to present the printed component of this project. The rest continues to exist in queer time: in personal archives, in memory, and beneath the layers of white paint that accumulate on the gallery walls.

Join us for the publication launch and experience the gallery’s ongoing transformation!

During the summer holidays of 2024/25, we ran a six-week, practice-led course titled Sapphic Reading and Writing, created for sapphic writers and artists. This project drew inspiration from the Women’s Art Register archive, housed in the Richmond Library. Seventh gratefully acknowledges the support of Lesbians Incorporated (LInc), whose funding made this project possible.

The project culminates in the release of this chapbook, paired with a deconstructed and extended version displayed across the walls and spaces of Seventh's galleries. Spilling out from the white cube and the blank page into various unpublishable forms, participants’ interconnected works explore themes such as queer time, space, and architecture; failure, drafting, and incompleteness; the layered roles of archives, memory, and visibility; sapphic love, friendship, and fate; bodies, sex, and the senses; and the complexities of language, labels, identities, and genres. Together, these works form a chaotic, messy, and queer takeover of Seventh, creating an ephemeral archive-in-space.

We are excited to present the printed component of this project. The rest continues to exist in queer time: in personal archives, in memory, and beneath the layers of white paint that accumulate on the gallery walls.

Join us for the publication launch and experience the gallery’s ongoing transformation!

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Angela Glindemann

Angela Glindemann is a queer and neurodivergent writer, poet and editor based in Naarm. She holds a Master of Arts (Writing), and she worked in the educational publishing industry for six years. She is a member of the Australian Publishers Association’s Diversity and Inclusion Working Group.

In her creative practice, she is preoccupied with everyday aesthetics, spatial writing, and ekphrasis, as well as fragmentary and digital writing experiments. She has written for publications such as Archer Magazine, Un Extended and Rabbit, and has participated in several arts writing programs, including the 2022 Writing in the Expanded Field program through ACCA and RMIT’s non/fictionLab.

Josephine Mead

Josephine Mead is a visual artist, writer and curator based on Wurundjeri woi wurrung & Dja Dja wurrung Country (Australia). She works through photography, sculpture, installation and writing to explore personal notions of support. Her recent work has positioned female family members as support-structures, considered the body as a site of discursive practice, explored notions of deep listening, and examined the temporal and sonic nature of writing and photography. She is interested in examining how curation can be an act of care.

Georgia Mill

Georgia is a writer and artist based in Melbourne. Her writing has been published by The Lifted Brow, Scum Mag, Melbourne City of Literature and Witness Performance. In 2018, she was long-listed for The Lifted Brow Prize for Experimental Non-fiction and short-listed for the Scribe Non-Fiction Prize.She has exhibited at Seventh Gallery, Trocadero Gallery, Alternating Current Art Space, Place Gallery, West Projections Festival, Punctum Live Arts Organisation, Nocturnal Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival and Ins tinc AIR Singapore. She is currently working on a project about chronic pain, sexuality and the body.

Darla Tejada

Darla Tejada is an emerging arts writer and student based in Naarm.

Emmanuelle Rambeau

Emmanuelle Rambeau is an Asian mixed-race butch dyke and an emerging writer and creative. With a focus on archives, art and literature, Emmanuelle is passionate about exploring the freeing and generative complexities of lesbianism, gender and dyke masculinities that can be found throughout history.

George Mein

George Mein is an artist and educator whose practice focuses on exploring the self, often delving into autobiographical themes. Working across various media, George employs an informal and unrefined style of expression, drawing inspiration from memory and lived experience. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Visual Art, George is passionate about engaging with contemporary queer art spaces to further develop her creative work.

Ivy Rose

Ivy Rose is a multidisciplinary maker based in Naarm. Their practice focuses on building theatrical underworlds of alternative expression, grounded in research of queer, fetish and DIY cultures. Fuelling a fantasy land where binary restraints don’t rule our everyday.

Liên Ta

Liên Ta is a Naarm-based writer, multi-disciplinary artist, and editor. She writes predominantly on her experiences as a child of Vietnamese-Cantonese immigrants, queerness, and joy. In January 2025, her projection exhibit 'trước nhà con (at the front of my house)' was displayed at the Brimbank Civic and Sunshine Projection Galleries.

Mollie Hartje

Mollie Hartje has long been enamoured with queer identity and the complexities of human experiences, perspectives, and connections. They weave their interests tightly into their writing, mixing together their personal experiences with fantasy to create a moving story that blends reality and fiction.

Orana Loren

Orana Loren is a writer and journalist who works on stolen Guringai land. Her short stories have appeared in Island, Azure, and the Foundationalist. For her non-fiction, she was awarded the University of Sydney’s 2022 Beauchamp Prize.

Sage Harvey

Sage Harvey is an educator, social worker and emerging queer writer. Their interests include elevating queer visibility, challenging gendered social norms and witnessing the diversity and rawness of humanity through the immersive arts of circus, dance and spoken word poetry.