Women's Business Collection

The Womens Business Collection is about women and the issues that women face. Issues that are current and from the past.

Gone Girl Installation and Performance

Artist Statement.

This work is dedicated to the memory of Stephanie Scott, a 26 year old school teacher from Leeton NSW who was murdered on 5th April 2015, just days before her wedding. 'Gone Girl' is about loss not just loss of life but loss of innocence, independence and freedom. 'Gone Girl is also about memory, remembering and paying tribute to those women, old and young who are now gone from us. The death of Stephanie Scott motivated me to create a community awareness of 'violence against women' (VAG). Gone Girl is the result of my horror, my anger and my sorrow at Stephanie's death. I have created a memorial within the Gallery, a public place of memory where visitors can pay tribute to the victims of of domestic violence. I have made yellow ceramic dresses and handbags to be hung on the memorial. I have printed cards so that a message can be written and tied to the memorial. This memorial is based on the traditional memory poles that honor those that have left this life. I have chosen the colour yellow to decorate the memorial because that is the colour that the Scott family and the Leeton community chose to honor and celebrate the Stephanie and her life.

Part of the Womens Business collection.
Materials: 49 Ceramic dresses
22 Ceramic white ribbons
Ceramic handbags and signs
Steel and aluminium fence installation
Flowers, greenery, paper, coloured ribbon and other found objects
Performance by artist in a wedding dress. The ghost of the women killed in 2016 by DV
Dimensions: 2m h x 3m w x 4m d

The Woman's Bureau. Modernity in 3D

Women and the Russian Revolution

Work created for 'Stuck in the Mud Exhibition' currated by Madeleine Preston at Verge Gallery, Sydney. (September 2016)

Part of the Womens Business collection.
Materials: stoneware

glazes

underglaze

oxides
Dimensions: h x w x d

An Angry Penguin

Australian Artists and women

Donation to Lismore Regional Gallery as a fundfraiser for the new Art Gallery

Part of the Womens Business collection.
Materials: Stoneware
Cone 6 glazes,
underglaze
oxides
Dimensions: h x w x d

Three Damned Whores

Part of the Womens Business collection.
Materials: Stoneware
Glazes made by artist and underglaze and oxides
Dimensions: varying sizes h x varying sizes w x varying sizes d

Untitled 1 - Back view.

This work is about the perceptions that society has about women. I took inspiration from the work of Anne Summers who wrote 'Damned Whores and God's Police.

Part of the Womens Business collection.
Materials: BRT
Cone 6
Glazes, underglazes and oxides.
Dimensions: 30cm h x 30cm w x 16cm d

The Woman's Bureau

This work is based on the 1917 Russian Revolution and the role that women played in the iconic posters of the time.

Part of the Womens Business collection.
Materials: PB103
Cone 6
Glazes made by artist, underglazes and oxides.
Dimensions: 29cm h x 20cm w x 20cm d

Women's Intellectual Enlightenment

Bluestocking Exhibition NRCG Ballina

February 2016

Part of the Womens Business collection.
Materials: Porcelain
White stoneware - PB103
cone 9
artists own glazes
Dimensions: 38cm h x 25cm w x 25cm d

Social Respectability For Women

Bluestocking Exhibition Ballina 2016

Part of the Womens Business collection.
Materials: PB103
Mid-fire glazes, cone 6
Dimensions: 40cm h x 20cm w x 20cm d

Liberté, Equalité and Fraternité

Bluestocking Exhibition Ballina 2016

Part of the Womens Business collection.
Materials: High Fire BRT
Cool Ice Porcelain
Stoneware dry glaze
Dimensions: 40cm h x 20cm w x 20cm d

Deeds Not Words. Detail

Part of the Womens Business collection.
Materials: PB103
Mid fire glazes made by artist
Dimensions: 6cm h x 6cm w x 6cm d

Deeds Not Words

Ths dress is modelled in the British Regency Style of the 1700s.

The dress is decorated with violets - the colours of the early Suffragettes of the twentieth century.

Deeds Not Words is one of 10 dresses (of varying sizes), part of the Bluestocking Exhibition which openedat the NRCG on 21January 2016.

Part of the Womens Business collection.
Materials: PB103
Mid fire glazes made by the artist (shiny and matt)
Dimensions: 40cm h x 20cm w x 20cm d

Chocolate and Cream

A dress with out the girl.

I have been experimenting with, the combining of clays.

Made at Kil.n.it Experimental Ceramic Studios, Glebe, Sydney

(Image by Stephen Gray Photographer)

Part of the Womens Business collection.
Materials: Stone ware
Cool Ice porcelain
Dimensions: 16cm h x 10cm w x 10cm d

Indigo - Bluestocking

My first work created for the Bluestocking Exhibition at Northern Rivers Community Gallery. 21 January - 14 February 2016).

Made at Studio 6, Kil.n.it Experimental Studios, Glebe, Sydney 2015.