You’ve Got a Mouth is an interactive discussion at the Round Table led by Veronica Caven Aldous and a diverse group of artists. During this event, artists will read and discuss their own ideas and statements on and about feminism, creating opportunities to deepen each other’s ideas on the relationship between feminism and the visual arts. The statements discussed will be diverse and encompass narratives biographical, historical, performative, poetic and current. Audience participation is warmly welcomed.
ARTIST BIOS
Veronica Caven Aldous’ practice includes printmaking, painting, sculpture, light works, installation, curating shows and discussions that draw on her interests in feminism, art history and the history of philosophy particularly from Indian Vedic literature. Rather than only exhibiting works she is interested in the ideas that surround them.
Caroline Phillips’ work explores topologies of feminism through the exploration of material objects. The conjuncture of craft practices and a minimalist abstracted form activates relationships of movement, agency and affect. Her work seeks to propose a potential aesthetic of relatedness.
Danielle McCarth is an interdisciplinary visual artist with a particular focus on the expanded fields of painting and drawing that includes large-scale installation and performance projects that seek to engage with life’s momentums and the elaboration of difference through repetitive gestures, interventions and actions. Her creative practice acknowledges its debt to feminism through an engagement with those forces that hold bodies together.
Janice Gobey‘s practice intends to experiment with the concept of creating empathy through paint in a world that is increasingly disconnected and alienating. She is interested in connecting with the viewer and giving them the opportunity to sense the emotions of the human and animal subjects in her paintings, through the use of highly tactile materials such as fur and drapery.
Juliette Peers’ varied interests include both historical and contemporary art and design, with a particular focus on fashion, dolls and women’s history. She is widely published as an art historian both in Australia, and for various British and North American publications including Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture and the Dictionary of Women Artists. In addition to these, Peers has also published many essays relating to contemporary art and feminist studies in Australia.
Kalinda Vary’s practice explores emotionality, vulnerability, power, humiliation, constraints of language and the problems with representations of identity. Recent works have focused on queer concerns of the body, performance within social structures and imposed cultural identities.
Kathy Heyward is a Melbourne-based artist, designer and educator whose practice aims to promote authentic and meaningful community engagement. She has maintained both independent and collaborative arts practices since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2000 and again in 2009 with a post-graduate degree.
Nina Ross is a Melbourne based artist working predominantly with video, performance and photography. With a strong research-led practice, Ross’ work responds to experiences of using and sharing language and its repercussions on the body as a metaphor for a sense of self.
Tania Smith is a performance artist with a sense of humour. She works with video, photography and costume, and her work explores liberation, bodily freedom, and pleasure.
