Beauty in the Beast

Coral East

2 - 20 September 2009
Artist in Attendance 3pm Sunday 13th September

Photographer Coral East examines beauty and pain in a series of photographs installed in Ruby's Corner. "Beauty in the Beast is my endeavour to display the pure beauty in the darker aspects of life", says East, who cites 18th Century France as a source of inspiration. "Noble women were required to wear corsets, often referred to as a torture device, even during pregnancy," she says. "Yet most of us can see the beauty of the corset."

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threads

Pia Johnson

2 - 13 September 2009
Artist Talk 3pm Sunday 13th September

Artist and photographer Pia Johnson continues her exploration of Chinese culture and the fusion of the East and West in 'threads'. The photographic series features striking black and white images of fabric, woven threads which the artist offers as a consideration of "the delicacy and fragility of identity, its ever-changing and evolving nature, some of the metaphors we use to approach and articulate it."

The 2008 recipient of the City of Melbourne's Young Artist Grant, Pia's photographs have featured in a diverse range of publications across the globe.

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THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS

Cuntstruct (Gina Clifford & Zinzi Kennedy)

2 - 13 September 2009
Opening 6pm Thursday 3rd September

Image: In the Kitchen from the "Butterfingers" Series, Zinzi Kennedy, Type C Photograph, 2008.

Classifying themselves to an extent as feminist artists, Kennedy and Clifford state: "We have altered the word construct by utilising 'cunt' to reflect a guerilla-style resurgence".

Zinzi Kennedy continues, "These Are a Few of My Favourite Things aims to provide the viewer with a platform upon which to consider the female corporeal body and women's visceral relation to pain and pleasure in patriarchal society."

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