tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19635951349596788312024-02-06T21:14:12.285-08:00Larissa MacFarlaneLarissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-9578778199188769962022-07-31T22:00:00.000-07:002022-07-31T22:00:56.225-07:00Last months artwork<p> <span style="font-size: large;">Back in June, I created a small edition of this linocut. </span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBlv-jijQ73TiaF-agN4ahXX-nIUE78WgpKPz5F8M_AJYqUlUTPqYLbBdujko1s9jxs8vKE1CZdZP3wDgD-WAmS8p4MmGGj2W3SMuS4KpSnnVIzK4DQAbY6dTaO6gHKRXczJshHaKWpCMAC1Bvl64fyWO5mIM3TPgBqCGOXTYg2D_FqHeVJR9qjSOr/s1854/Practicing%20stillness%20amidst%20the%20covid%20confusion%20s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="1854" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBlv-jijQ73TiaF-agN4ahXX-nIUE78WgpKPz5F8M_AJYqUlUTPqYLbBdujko1s9jxs8vKE1CZdZP3wDgD-WAmS8p4MmGGj2W3SMuS4KpSnnVIzK4DQAbY6dTaO6gHKRXczJshHaKWpCMAC1Bvl64fyWO5mIM3TPgBqCGOXTYg2D_FqHeVJR9qjSOr/w640-h436/Practicing%20stillness%20amidst%20the%20covid%20confusion%20s.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Practicing Stillness amidst Covid confusion, linocut, edition of 13, 10x15cm, 2022<br /></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">And three of this edition have now landed in Queensland, to be part </span><span style="text-align: left;">of the Printbank Mackay's biennial Print Exchange.</span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;">As many of you already may know, I love Print Exchanges. It is a great tradition in the printmaking world. Over the past decade, I have participated in dozens of exchanges, across the planet.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Printbank Mackay is one of my favourites. They are lovely people to work with, such that it is possible that I have been part of every Print Exchange they have held. They also encourage artists to send each art postcard individually in the mail. This means that each artwork ends up with a stamp and postmark as well as the scuffs of postal travel. And as someone passionate about stamps and postmarks, this makes me super happy! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Here is the backside of the artwork (prior to postal travel).</span></p><p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8MRo8xISOYd0JE0ClT8YExEEi8nPkoms-yyToM83mBOuBKEZdjXtnItfH5J3aPAfPlvLLNOPZT9S7v8P-klNQhfQH5jyXJa1hXBgnuZlzItWuYrSwgsR2_uAZuth7ldSo2LDoHFd2PaCQTrt3IiXoHNHiHgPQj5bTQuQGRBZHNbCrToD6AAle5y98/s1910/Practicing%20stillness...%20back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1287" data-original-width="1910" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8MRo8xISOYd0JE0ClT8YExEEi8nPkoms-yyToM83mBOuBKEZdjXtnItfH5J3aPAfPlvLLNOPZT9S7v8P-klNQhfQH5jyXJa1hXBgnuZlzItWuYrSwgsR2_uAZuth7ldSo2LDoHFd2PaCQTrt3IiXoHNHiHgPQj5bTQuQGRBZHNbCrToD6AAle5y98/w640-h432/Practicing%20stillness...%20back.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Back side of the artwork. The text reads:<br />2/13 Practicing stillness amidst the covid confusion, linocut, 2022<br />As a disabled person reliant on health care, it is a massive feat to say calm as the health system collapses and eugenics advances. <br />This linocut reflects some of my daily struggle in an ableist society during covid times.<br />I am a proud disabled queer artist, living in Narrm, working across a printmaking, street art and community art practice.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Each year there is a theme and this years was 'Still'.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This artwork was important for me to make. I have spent a lot of the past two years, attempting to speak about the increasing difficulties in accessing health care. Covid times have made my life and those of many others dependant on health care, really difficult. But in response to my rants, I have often experienced denial and gaslighting. It has been hard. And so this year, I have been trying to be calm and rant less. And make more art!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Of course easier said than done, when the health system continues to buckle under the pressure of increasing Covid (and Long Covid) cases, as well as staff leaving the industry due to burnout. And my health just gets worse.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">At the moment, it feels like the incredible strain that the health system is under is getting more media attention. It makes me feel more seen. But I also despair as I am not sure that this attention will bring any real or lasting change. Especially as those that are most affected by a failing health system, are those already with much less voice, those marginalised by poverty, race, gender diversity and disability.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">My hope is that this artwork brings some visibility to this issue. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And right now, I am feeling some relief, as one of my medications that I have been waiting on for some weeks, has just arrived. Hoping for some less pain disturbed sleep tonight.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-34869190908873366972022-07-28T23:57:00.000-07:002022-07-28T23:57:01.486-07:00Another Disability Pride Month art moment...<p><span style="font-size: large;"> In this last week of Disability Pride Month in July, I did a bit of guerilla art on the Footscray Telstra Building, which until recently held the Disability Pride is Back! Mural.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKACbut-WaGprxnDjs4DxPQUZSg0D1jpZM7HhOzCbyWUJzFHAaKAKB2DmtN_UIaXzO4DRvq7aBDsDCoN8TqYHKOhnH7IFzcGNG7fku4zrpotNsc-jXzuPmPZlEl9OTSk97u9UTOUegEkoVXIqmGQZIi-GtJYFJUdnjSziW8hgYi0EUeDovwsRlgxmU/s3898/july%202022%20m%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2467" data-original-width="3898" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKACbut-WaGprxnDjs4DxPQUZSg0D1jpZM7HhOzCbyWUJzFHAaKAKB2DmtN_UIaXzO4DRvq7aBDsDCoN8TqYHKOhnH7IFzcGNG7fku4zrpotNsc-jXzuPmPZlEl9OTSk97u9UTOUegEkoVXIqmGQZIi-GtJYFJUdnjSziW8hgYi0EUeDovwsRlgxmU/w640-h406/july%202022%20m%20copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-size: large;">I pasted up some letters based on my linocuts. It reads:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">'To all my disabled folk, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Happy Disability Pride Month</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> July 2022'</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The wall was looking pretty bare, apart from a few tags and some ghost remains of the original mural, which you can see more in these two photos. (Back in 2018, I was experimenting with using silicone to attach these particular artworks, so whilst the artworks are now gone, the shadows remain!)</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLfVgizET9jbJVzQitx2vktMOm-AhGdux4NSnfcYQS7gAFrU3JQquTJSH6J3xYYlgYnXOqp7-5a25whFA_V8KpK92ZaxCjQROFZW4hhx0VOZ4aIjyKIEniaEnYxF2PJTNfdlM6eLYU2KHFDIW-HE2vWWebAyBA-uv21EnU74KR7rlOA5Vc_kAKVAr3/s4000/DP%20wall%20with%20new%2022%20message%20s.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLfVgizET9jbJVzQitx2vktMOm-AhGdux4NSnfcYQS7gAFrU3JQquTJSH6J3xYYlgYnXOqp7-5a25whFA_V8KpK92ZaxCjQROFZW4hhx0VOZ4aIjyKIEniaEnYxF2PJTNfdlM6eLYU2KHFDIW-HE2vWWebAyBA-uv21EnU74KR7rlOA5Vc_kAKVAr3/w480-h640/DP%20wall%20with%20new%2022%20message%20s.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEY_PZ675RM6kjJsUmaMufXlIgxbqBL_moygVl0AtQPCDCjKcGZdIkeAqPd188RmE4t5InG0KKT2xFzcMMl6u40CZaUl5ksTq7QDKpJf94Fe4U26fIQDxdYQWpkALbU4OVhMB0ZJT2Zt6negguo4Ug9OLE2si-cQl9jS1K4RHJpthunb8VW37aUglI/s3713/wall%20with%20pld%20pride%20s.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="3713" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEY_PZ675RM6kjJsUmaMufXlIgxbqBL_moygVl0AtQPCDCjKcGZdIkeAqPd188RmE4t5InG0KKT2xFzcMMl6u40CZaUl5ksTq7QDKpJf94Fe4U26fIQDxdYQWpkALbU4OVhMB0ZJT2Zt6negguo4Ug9OLE2si-cQl9jS1K4RHJpthunb8VW37aUglI/w640-h518/wall%20with%20pld%20pride%20s.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I wanted to do a shout out for those out for those who miss the mural. And create some visibility for Disability Pride Month. And this little paste up matched my spoons for this week. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Let's hope this paste up stays awhile.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p>Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-44012694208163661832022-07-28T23:24:00.000-07:002022-07-28T23:24:23.308-07:00Happy Disability Pride Month<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">July is Disability Pride month!!. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is regularly celebrated in USA, but still relatively new here in Australia. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">(It is in July, because the ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act, was first signed on 26 July 1990.) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZOF4CwvpYmeiRMyEWR4PMn5mDYv_vSleDanvPJnJOXIqdW4S-JIydPwVtPbPUVzVCHghE8WDJwh46pAgI5itQg_urZaaJ0O-vl3tX4HeNwS9gPntAcune62S45HjHJygwp-jOJmdM-SCjkUOTyr1Ah188qr_ntiO92acdQNz47RvoCrNYg504x5tm/s3001/MacFarlane_L_thinking%20of%20you!%201.8%20s%20crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="A 12x12cm square artwork on paper. The background is a pattern of orange and yellow dots. In the top right corner is a 43c Australian stamp featuring a bunch of flowers and the words ‘Thinking of you’. Overlaid are different linocut postmarks. The main central one is circular with ‘Disability Pride Month’ written around the edge with a globe, an envelope and July 22 in the centre." border="0" data-original-height="2994" data-original-width="3001" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZOF4CwvpYmeiRMyEWR4PMn5mDYv_vSleDanvPJnJOXIqdW4S-JIydPwVtPbPUVzVCHghE8WDJwh46pAgI5itQg_urZaaJ0O-vl3tX4HeNwS9gPntAcune62S45HjHJygwp-jOJmdM-SCjkUOTyr1Ah188qr_ntiO92acdQNz47RvoCrNYg504x5tm/w640-h638/MacFarlane_L_thinking%20of%20you!%201.8%20s%20crop.jpg" title="Thinking of you" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">'Thinking of you', Linocut, screen print, and found postage stamp, Edition of 8, 12x12cm</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_ozBFeHJpQ2UpqwBkOwpn4j6IO5Eccf93a2nC3GHdbqf1mMU6Np4wrxwQouKvXPPpwwrrOuSWbs-9kCvVpjri9rqpGOKvaxPce6Ysn0JR7v_47A052iQPcpblgljFaIPkazNwM6-M0uDFxc09YEXJHK6nrR2NmXQS6ZU0jMFHsUWeLfI29EAHptx/s1880/thinkjng%20of%20you%20back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The back of the artwork which is plain off white apart from a signature, date, edition number 8/8 and the title 'Thinking of you’ written in pencil along the top. And in the centre is invented linocut postmark appropriating an Australia Post design and logo, with words that read, ‘Be safe and piss on pity’." border="0" data-original-height="1879" data-original-width="1880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_ozBFeHJpQ2UpqwBkOwpn4j6IO5Eccf93a2nC3GHdbqf1mMU6Np4wrxwQouKvXPPpwwrrOuSWbs-9kCvVpjri9rqpGOKvaxPce6Ysn0JR7v_47A052iQPcpblgljFaIPkazNwM6-M0uDFxc09YEXJHK6nrR2NmXQS6ZU0jMFHsUWeLfI29EAHptx/w400-h400/thinkjng%20of%20you%20back.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">backside of the artwork</span><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">To welcome in this year’s Pride month, I made this new artwork, with new invented postmarks. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">The postmark on the back uses the Australia Post logo and one of their designs, but changes the wording to incorporate one of the disability rights slogans ‘Piss on pity’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">Disability Pride is about being proud of our lives and celebrating human diversity. It is also being proud of our struggle to resist ableism and speak back to attitudes of charity and pity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">This small artwork will be exhibited in Queensland in August at Umbrella Contemporary Arts gallery. Yay!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">It has taken me ages to make this post, because things have been a bit chaotic in my life with few spare spoons this month whilst in a chronic pain/fatigue crash. This is mostly due to the ongoing difficulties in accessing the supports I need, mostly due to the impacts of Covid. But knowing it is Disability Pride Month and the history of disabled activism that has led to this moment, has brought me comfort. It has also given me extra permission to not get so down on myself for being ‘too emotional’, or not reading the signs well and upsetting others, as well as not meeting my obligations and commitments. Being hard on myself like this, is an expression of ‘internalised ableism’. Thus, Disability Pride is also about recognising when we enact ableism upon ourselves, and remembering that this is related to systemic, cultural ways of thinking that believes that disabled people are lesser. And we are not! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">Disability Pride is also about finding ways to be kind to ourselves and each other. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here’s to all disabled people across the world. I am thinking of you!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-68901834554364623782022-06-27T23:52:00.001-07:002022-06-27T23:52:17.223-07:00And some other news on the Disability Pride Mural!<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some more excellent news on the Disability Pride Mural, is that our short 10 minute documentary film, <i>The Disability Pride Mural</i>, directed by Naomi Chainey and produced by myself in 2019, is finally now available to watch for free on Youtube! </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="346" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_nRppIpeEKg" width="416" youtube-src-id="_nRppIpeEKg"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This short documentary film tells the story of Australia’s first Disability Pride Mural, located in Footscray, Melbourne/Naarm. This Mural was first made in November 2017, but was accidentally removed a week later. Through the fierce determination and spirit of the disabled community, this mural was recreated and reinstalled a year later in 2018. This short film explores concepts of ableism, Disability Pride, and the power and complexity inherent in identifying as disabled/with disability. It features Larissa MacFarlane, the lead artist producer of this mural, and many other prominent members of Melbourne's disability/arts community. </span></i></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This film, directed by Naomi Chainey and produced by Larissa MacFarlane, was made upon the unceded sovereign lands of the BoonWurrung and WoiWurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders of these lands and follow their laws to harm no land, no animal, no person. </span></i></div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">We also acknowledge the struggle of our disabled ancestors across the world and the long history of the fight for our human rights. It is their hard work, that we build upon today, and that has led to this Disability Pride mural.</span></i></div><br /></i></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">Feel free to share it around with your networks. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">I really hope this film helps with practicing your Pride!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">And my last bit of news on the Disability Pride front, is that I plan to run some Disability Pride Badge making workshops in the second half of this year!!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwMEOtGWzvLa_x2vJhTXpZDGvI_w4oB-aZJKVX7DQPsLn1qTypuV66vHiXzITMjhQlBKEEQP1qsUisMPyQZxzrCysNdzsLZEqyTq1spLorIRWgt4hI5CugETs4i57t3vLA3A0RFBzQw_fm656H8Mqd4-ODe8AQ1-3dIU0WzzbhXV-5YCuF6dMVQ-ex/s5483/bsdge%20workshop.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3234" data-original-width="5483" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwMEOtGWzvLa_x2vJhTXpZDGvI_w4oB-aZJKVX7DQPsLn1qTypuV66vHiXzITMjhQlBKEEQP1qsUisMPyQZxzrCysNdzsLZEqyTq1spLorIRWgt4hI5CugETs4i57t3vLA3A0RFBzQw_fm656H8Mqd4-ODe8AQ1-3dIU0WzzbhXV-5YCuF6dMVQ-ex/w400-h236/bsdge%20workshop.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a previous workshop</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRAHD113mDow1D2JsiIE4LNBRoFBH7gUQE5Buoby2uFAApDEogI2vF0XiKNNyjKTqIQAx7ydInm3c7yJHKMm0ldbSTU_3QfCOD8RMwEauFqMcJycv54uVYwxok-7WeUtyqXgZ7zH1AYtlpcUgFR9e3pGKk9DO84ZL7XfJJSi8fybVk6-bWZqI91YU8/s4611/my.%20new%20badge%20maker%20s.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3830" data-original-width="4611" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRAHD113mDow1D2JsiIE4LNBRoFBH7gUQE5Buoby2uFAApDEogI2vF0XiKNNyjKTqIQAx7ydInm3c7yJHKMm0ldbSTU_3QfCOD8RMwEauFqMcJycv54uVYwxok-7WeUtyqXgZ7zH1AYtlpcUgFR9e3pGKk9DO84ZL7XfJJSi8fybVk6-bWZqI91YU8/s320/my.%20new%20badge%20maker%20s.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my new gold badge maker!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I want to provide these workshops because the increase in ableist and eugenicist messaging during these Covid years, has really undermined the confidence of so many disabled people, including myself. Hence, I am keen to create these opportunities to practice Disability Pride, in community, with our peers, and rebuild our power and passion!! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>Let me know if you are interested. Or if you would like me to visit and run a workshop with your disability group or community. </span><span>These will be in Melbourne to start with, but I might branch out (covid depending). </span><span>Where I can, I plan to provide these workshops for free or by donation to cover costs.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">That's it for now!</span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Looking forward to catching up with folk, albeit in good crip and covid time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">And wishing you all much pride in the upcoming Disability Pride Month that is July! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p>Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-68282201944160209442022-06-27T23:49:00.000-07:002022-06-27T23:49:07.914-07:00More news on the Disability Pride Mural! <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">In other news about the Disability Pride Mural, we have made a book!!! And it is excellent!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8FgusXK3k42zy3RSL0hkWtrM6hV8Egq4nS-Bqu3I7vYhaEetteAmiCa1-LBvKArG0Ke99rlcDzYvuk-g5-EctOANqGFb6VFzwHB0o6wEL8uVL2mZA-EW-hDVqb2INohMV0Szt27IH80TLGnR3Do9QVU7DmsctUIPVWMfi0okFagTFOToWfxbz8bAJ/s3264/DP%20book.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8FgusXK3k42zy3RSL0hkWtrM6hV8Egq4nS-Bqu3I7vYhaEetteAmiCa1-LBvKArG0Ke99rlcDzYvuk-g5-EctOANqGFb6VFzwHB0o6wEL8uVL2mZA-EW-hDVqb2INohMV0Szt27IH80TLGnR3Do9QVU7DmsctUIPVWMfi0okFagTFOToWfxbz8bAJ/w640-h480/DP%20book.heic" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Over the past few years, I have been working with community artist and disability ally, Debbie Qadri, and together (mostly Debbie!) we have created an awesome photo-essay book. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It documents the story of the two murals in 2017 and 2018, highlights the importance and struggle for Disability Pride and how art is negotiated in public space. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It has lots of photos as well as words!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">We have been busy, albeit slowly, distributing it to libraries, community, disability and arts centres and organisations across Australia and internationally.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">We are also sending all the artists and people involved in the mural your own copy! (Please get in touch if you haven't received yours by the end of July.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you have suggestions of organisations or places that you think should have this book, especially if they are willing to display it or loan it out, please let me know. The more people, both disabled and non-disabled, that see and read this book, the more we can build a Disability Pride movement in Australia!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">At the moment the book is not for sale. We self-funded a small run of only 250 copies which we are providing free or by donation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Of course, if there is demand, then we may reassess and get more printed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you would like to own your own copy, please get in touch with me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">We hope to have an online and in person launch of this book in the coming months. Stay tuned!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><o:p><span>Here is a link to a short summary of the book on Trove. </span></o:p><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1963595134959678831/6828220194416020944#">https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/238888697</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>And if you would like to read or share the book online, you can access or download it here. </span><a href="https://debbieharmanqadri.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/disability-prides-is-back-essay-by-debbie-qadri-and-larissa-mac-farlane-13-mb-22.6.2020-.pdf" style="color: #954f72;">https://debbieharmanqadri.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/disability-prides-is-back-essay-by-debbie-qadri-and-larissa-mac-farlane-13-mb-22.6.2020-.pdf</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>It is also available on the Academia website!</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p>
Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-28202264154900915962022-06-07T23:37:00.000-07:002022-06-07T23:37:52.824-07:00Update on the Disability Pride Mural in Footscray, Naarm<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It has been quite some time since I have posted about the Disability Pride Mural in Footscray. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I hope that you are all surviving, and maybe even thriving in these difficult times. And if you are not, I am sending you my love and please know that you are not alone. These are really tough times for many, especially many disabled people. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOT476-nlgxEUYYKmF2HmoYm29oLxiK5lKXyRoMsrXVvvX4N3KQbF8tcjD5OWMa1OffdYerCGLC8_mkxahInjqHgmmm2UcsvKeCg_NsZLI2k5BaVWmkQ2-Y_Bn_Er-937nlDbk5tGHxfmcopJmCqp5mmxEDk6GIbM3IWFShujNy4gO4EOQPftdfgjn/s1181/disability%20pride.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="1181" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOT476-nlgxEUYYKmF2HmoYm29oLxiK5lKXyRoMsrXVvvX4N3KQbF8tcjD5OWMa1OffdYerCGLC8_mkxahInjqHgmmm2UcsvKeCg_NsZLI2k5BaVWmkQ2-Y_Bn_Er-937nlDbk5tGHxfmcopJmCqp5mmxEDk6GIbM3IWFShujNy4gO4EOQPftdfgjn/w640-h426/disability%20pride.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><o:p><br /></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Last month, after more than 3 years on the Exchange Building on Nicholson St Footscray, the Disability Pride Mural was removed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sadly, the Mural was hit with much graffiti and tagging during Covid times. These weren’t likely to be targeted attacks, as most of the surrounding area in Footscray has been similarly tagged. It was also showing many signs of much wear and tear. After all, this was a paste up mural and not actually designed to last this long! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And so over the past 6 months, I have been in discussions with Maribyrnong City Council and last month, we came to an agreement that it needed to be removed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I understand that for some of you reading this, especially if you were one of the 50-60 artists involved in this mural, this news might bring up some difficult feelings. That makes sense, given that it was such a long, difficult road to reinstate the mural after it was first destroyed. If anyone needs to chat, please get in touch with me. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But whilst this mural has been removed for now, the legacy of Disability Pride stays with us. For me, this mural represents a celebration of the unity and strength of disabled people, as well as our shared struggle to resist ableism and discrimination. This current removal does not mean the end of Disability Pride. It lives on in our hearts and stories and community. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The good news is that the Maribyrnong Council want to fund a new Disability Pride mural! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Unfortunately, my health and capacity remain pretty low, and I am not currently in a position to lead any new project. But I am hopeful that in the coming months, particularly as we hopefully find better ways to manage the Covid impacts on disabled people, a plan will emerge. If you have any thoughts or ideas, or want to express your interest in being involved in a new Disability Pride project, please get in touch. (Although I may take some crip time to respond.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And stay tuned for some more exciting Disability Pride news in my next post!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-15105981548111101902022-06-07T22:30:00.002-07:002022-06-07T22:31:47.483-07:00A new beginning!<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It has been simply ages since I posted an update here! Whilst I have continued to make much art, albeit much less in Covidtimes, I haven’t been sharing it much online. This is probably because using online spaces has become much more difficult for me in recent years. One of my quirks is a condition called Vestibular Syndrome. It is often associated with brain injury, and it has unfortunately got much worse over the past 5 years (possibly triggered by undertaking a medical trial of TMS…but that is another story!) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For me, Vestibular Syndrome expresses itself as nausea and dizziness, and is often triggered by online spaces, especially if they have many moving parts. It has been a real shit! Especially as we entered Covid and almost everything went online!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This, combined with increased chronic fatigue and chronic pain, in large part due to ongoing difficulties accessing health care and support due to covid, has also greatly impacted my mental health. Things have been very messy at times over the past 2 years!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But I have had some recent small overall improvements. And I am getting better at practicing having more realistic expectations of my actual 'Envelope of Energy' (also called 'spoons' in the chronic illness community).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So there may be a few more updates of my creative practice in the near future!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">For now, I will share this relatively recent linocut. <i>Close Encounters of the Vestibular Kind</i>. This artwork has had quite a long journey to completion. I began carving in 2019. I proofed it in March 2020, just before we went into lockdown. I then managed to do little bits of work to complete the carving here and there. And in January 2022 this year, almost 2 years later, I was finally able to complete and edition it.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is now an edition of 26. And is finally now available to purchase. Please contact me if you are interested. </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">It is part of new collection of work, most of which are still in slow progress!</span><br /><br /></span></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvHvf2Eh0KYAszlzd8AEs1GHrT6KwUmI-FYZAo2jKxuZMIgElNbm4V3Ss75gIICupxSRw33-xEtMiIFBJmQ0lksTRcSiE6fuP06qRhtG_0RkpK2aaF_6GodcnEc1aRC03UxQ3O5ea6wWJZX47arRp4ojYJz2rWbd7BWfcs6rXn9RWy5tNylvpEO_PY/s2500/MacFarlane_L_Close%20encounters%20of%20the%20vestibular%20kind%202500p%20w%20100dpi.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2483" data-original-width="2500" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvHvf2Eh0KYAszlzd8AEs1GHrT6KwUmI-FYZAo2jKxuZMIgElNbm4V3Ss75gIICupxSRw33-xEtMiIFBJmQ0lksTRcSiE6fuP06qRhtG_0RkpK2aaF_6GodcnEc1aRC03UxQ3O5ea6wWJZX47arRp4ojYJz2rWbd7BWfcs6rXn9RWy5tNylvpEO_PY/w640-h636/MacFarlane_L_Close%20encounters%20of%20the%20vestibular%20kind%202500p%20w%20100dpi.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i>Close Encounters of the Vestibular Kind</i>, linocut, 21cm x 21cm</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">This small linocut references my experiences of living with chronic illness in our contemporary capitalist world that values production and ability over rest and disability. This works also refers to the Vestibular Syndrome that I live with, that causes dizziness and nausea, often exacerbated by poor design of online spaces. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">This linocut was proofed in March 2020, as most of Australia first started responding to Covid 19 and isolating. I, alongside many other disabled people, quickly realised that this experience of isolation is something that we well know and have developed strong skills around managing. But instead of having opportunities to share our knowledge, we were mislabelled as vulnerable. And with that one word, disabled people have been re-stereotyped as needing of help, erasing the complexity of our lives, and making our lived experience wisdom unable to be understood.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-17935054109127290322021-01-23T21:28:00.003-08:002021-01-23T21:31:41.809-08:00Subterranean Femmes: a new exhibition<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Super happy to be part of the Subterranean Femmes exhibition!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> It features 12 amazing female artists who all use street art in their practice. Due to Covid, this exhibition had a few starts and stops, but it finally opened on 3 December 2020, and runs until 29 January 2021.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPvM7pMOfljWrXTWpKG5tI2V7unAI2ZbjP8AiXwANn80GKCMRbgg56-4GaVhW0gicouHv3pScXPo7rj8iiYh7U4Wjvk_gakr8a6oMFZgisCGnZC6KRi2ol6zOqYRdnodu-c7YmeurUhXs/s1476/Final-poster-with-names-1+copy+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="1476" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPvM7pMOfljWrXTWpKG5tI2V7unAI2ZbjP8AiXwANn80GKCMRbgg56-4GaVhW0gicouHv3pScXPo7rj8iiYh7U4Wjvk_gakr8a6oMFZgisCGnZC6KRi2ol6zOqYRdnodu-c7YmeurUhXs/w640-h512/Final-poster-with-names-1+copy+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It is at the longstanding and well loved gallery space (currently called the Dirty Dozen) located under Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. Entry is via stairs at Degraves St underpass, or via the centre of any Flinders St Station platform. Please note and my super apologies, that this space is only accessible by stairs. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">(This is really shit access for many disabled people, and if you feel so inclined, I encourage you to give feedback to Melbourne City Council 9658 9658<span style="background-color: #f4f6f9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #23242b;">)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f4f6f9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #23242b;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #052f5f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">My exhibition is in one of the 12 large glass window cases built into the walls of this iconic underpass. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #052f5f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is titled <i>Disabled is not a dirty word</i>. It contains 175 individual linocut based elements! </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #052f5f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #052f5f;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXqXkpLhLr-cG9SSOl4DIlk5hhn38c_R86SqpmJx76eR0zn-Dnam_jcphfrUD7yYfGgqoDhEl8Z49bTR_I1bH_Fu79_3LY_aF55hMcQGT9vobxZVsRy01b9wDZyMiUNColIrPqCFxhjF8/s2048/title+s.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXqXkpLhLr-cG9SSOl4DIlk5hhn38c_R86SqpmJx76eR0zn-Dnam_jcphfrUD7yYfGgqoDhEl8Z49bTR_I1bH_Fu79_3LY_aF55hMcQGT9vobxZVsRy01b9wDZyMiUNColIrPqCFxhjF8/w400-h300/title+s.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwX9mjKADI5UVdif_HIcTTwZfEHKRDokOfAuApebg05R2YgcXbwFPaU5rRjptZmJz8O2bB9iG9EbkmwMTQPjSzdOj3KXXIo4y6iuOKSBsausU4fzL8lcq39O8I-LWYG_hK8MjpnsNoocE/s2048/Dirty+Dozen+dec+3++ana+doc.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwX9mjKADI5UVdif_HIcTTwZfEHKRDokOfAuApebg05R2YgcXbwFPaU5rRjptZmJz8O2bB9iG9EbkmwMTQPjSzdOj3KXXIo4y6iuOKSBsausU4fzL8lcq39O8I-LWYG_hK8MjpnsNoocE/w640-h480/Dirty+Dozen+dec+3++ana+doc.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkWDNjS4T1SjeSydHxA-fwvQLfhwQ0xNwCgXTqttHPDWyk9R187ACk9SHvQNV7brbfIOjvOpPQK1Q1CRAwnFEbnhQpdm6H8YU7Yk_Yf7mYKY3oGwoSkR1I1yaD0VRnK6tXLREtELHkAWs/s2048/left+side+disabled+is+a+not+s.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkWDNjS4T1SjeSydHxA-fwvQLfhwQ0xNwCgXTqttHPDWyk9R187ACk9SHvQNV7brbfIOjvOpPQK1Q1CRAwnFEbnhQpdm6H8YU7Yk_Yf7mYKY3oGwoSkR1I1yaD0VRnK6tXLREtELHkAWs/w480-h640/left+side+disabled+is+a+not+s.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><span style="color: #052f5f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #052f5f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>It builds upon my previous street art work of the past 3 years exploring Disabled Culture. But it was also inspired by the negative impacts that Covid has had on so many disabled people, including myself, as well as the ways that Covid has seen governments, health and disability organisations increasingly use the medical model to manage people with disability, such as describing disabled people with ableist stereotypes such as ‘vulnerable’. <o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #052f5f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPrwCy88BIvRPRgth6XAF1FPEyovlOal5AAgJf1MZ5PwTL_TYpeax_1B1UiQyEF2MqUbKaKC06_jreOb7yIxTmnb6wWENNd52AP5foPb3IZPwWr_SLC2hqzUYyBk2zEcaAEjjPh7btMWQ/s2048/right+side+2+s.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPrwCy88BIvRPRgth6XAF1FPEyovlOal5AAgJf1MZ5PwTL_TYpeax_1B1UiQyEF2MqUbKaKC06_jreOb7yIxTmnb6wWENNd52AP5foPb3IZPwWr_SLC2hqzUYyBk2zEcaAEjjPh7btMWQ/w480-h640/right+side+2+s.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #052f5f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I am also going to be at the gallery on Friday 29 January between 2.30 and 4.30pm. And I am inviting you to drop by and say hello! It has been almost a year since I have seen most people, so it will be amazing to say hello. I will also be talking a bit about the artwork and the importance of practicing Disability Pride. And I will have some pretty gifts for those who can come. Please follow COVID safe behaviour. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #052f5f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #052f5f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #052f5f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #052f5f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #052f5f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #052f5f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #052f5f; font-family: inherit;">Apologies again to those of my community who can't access the space. So here's more photos of my </span><span style="color: #052f5f;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 47, 95);">artworks</span></span><span style="color: #052f5f; font-family: inherit;"> in this </span></span><span style="color: #052f5f; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 47, 95);">exhibition. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #052f5f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 9.6pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #052f5f;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-YojndGZrz0WQHKWKH8xU2Wx3BJOJkmCWnkQE5Ue5FGCZCpB-G8Z9LziXV-TwmHeQh-29hkCFQyAIvIYtZq8qcdbEpxqB75jW2t2i_64fDtQbj_92Sz51MiDhgznEU9ai25ZQzDKZvL0/s2048/detail+centre+s.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-YojndGZrz0WQHKWKH8xU2Wx3BJOJkmCWnkQE5Ue5FGCZCpB-G8Z9LziXV-TwmHeQh-29hkCFQyAIvIYtZq8qcdbEpxqB75jW2t2i_64fDtQbj_92Sz51MiDhgznEU9ai25ZQzDKZvL0/w480-h640/detail+centre+s.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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This is from Amanda </span></span><span style="color: #052f5f; font-size: medium;">Newman. 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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">So, this blog post has been a long time in the making…9 months. I guess that some art making and documenting is harder than others! This post documents the final day of installation of the Disability Pride mural. It is also a bit of a long post.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">On a lovely sunny but cool, early Spring day in Footscray in Naarm/Melbourne, on 20 September 2018, heaps of people turned out to take part in and to witness the final day of re-installation of </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">Australia</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">’s first Disability Pride Mural.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">It was an amazing day. A huge thanks to the many people who turned up to help cut out, colour in and paste up their own and other people’s artworks. And thanks to all the people who turned out to watch, listen and learn. Maybe 200 people attended in all.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: large;">About 50 peoples’ voices are represented on this wall. People of all different disabilities, telling stories about their lives, and highlighting the wide cultural diversity that is Disabled Culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">I especially want to thank all those disabled people for their courage in joining with me, back in November 2017, to install the first Disability Pride mural. There is a lot of stigma around disability, and this stigma varies depending on disability type. And if our disability is invisible (as the majority are) we may often choose not to disclose. But since total secrecy of disability is usually not possible, most of us know that disclosure can lead to ableism and discrimination. So, it is a brave thing to disclose in public space, to stand up and proudly proclaim part of your identity. Given that Australia has never before had a Disability Pride mural, it was hard to predict what would happen. So I want to honour your brave stand, almost into the unknown, that you all took.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">Thanks to Naomi Chainey for filming and documenting this Mural as it took place. Stay tuned for more about this…</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">Thanks to SARU, the Self Advocacy Resource Unit, for the long loan of the badge maker, so that I could make and distribute hundreds of Disability Pride badges throughout the year. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">Thanks to Jax Jackie Brown and Stella Young and so many others for your education about Disability Pride. And the late Michael Fleming for introducing me to Mad Pride, long before that.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">I am sure that there are many other people that I should thank, so my biggest apologies if I have missed you. (Please let me know too.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">This mural is a paste up. That means it is made of paper, pasted up with a wheat paste glue. As a result, it is an ephemeral work, meaning that with time it will disintegrate. This might sound sad, but one advantage, is the possibility that we get to do it again. And that more disabled voices can be brought out into the open. Disability Pride is also something that we need to practice. As the late great US disability activist, Laura Hershey wrote, <i>You get proud by practicing</i>. Disability Pride is also a little like a journey and our individual relationship with it changes over time. And until we live in a world where we all have access, regardless of our impairments, race, gender and sexual orientation, we will always need to practice Disability Pride.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My main hope for creating this wall, was to create a public space for disabled people to feel belonging, to raise awareness of and kick start a Disability Pride movement in Australia, as well as build the spirit of the Disabled community and the idea of a unique Disabled culture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Mural's unfortunate demise in 2017, after only a week in place, threw the issue into the news and certainly raised its profile. They say that ‘all publicity is good publicity’. However, the struggle to reinstall the mural, has taken a personal toll on myself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The mural destruction is also symbolic of the way that disability is viewed in this country - as not of value. It further points to the ways in which the medical model of disability is so deeply entrenched, that very idea of Disability Pride is difficult to grasp. The destruction and the resulting drama also created further challenges to reinstall this artwork in a way that honoured our stories and kept a culturally safe space. The fact that we did indeed return to this site and recreate a mural, bigger and better than before, is extraordinary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: large;">There was some great media coverage of the Mural that was really respectful of Disabled culture. You can listen to two interviews here. A big shout out to Independent Media everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://joy.org.au/melbourne-fringe-festival-podcast-series-2018/" target="_blank">Fringe 2018 podcast</a> series, episode 2, where I speak alongside Disabled artists, Rachel Edmonds, Claire Barnier and Leisa Prowd about Disability identity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: large;">Finally, congratulations everyone, who joined me on this journey. </span><span style="font-family: cambria, serif; font-size: large;">May there be many more expressions of Disability Pride into the future.</span><br />
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-53268994110319717052018-09-18T21:29:00.000-07:002018-09-18T21:30:26.613-07:00You get proud by practicing, by Laura Hershey<span style="font-size: large;">I recently posted on Facbook a photo of myself pasting up a poem on the Disability Pride mural in Footscray, <i>'You get proud by practicing'</i> by Laura Hershey. And a few people have since asked me about it, so I thought I would post it here for you to read. This is the fourth time I have pasted up this poem in public space. Discovering this poem a few years back, was one of the things that led me to undertake leading a Disability Pride Mural. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.laurahershey.com/" target="_blank">Laura Hershey</a> was a writer poet and disability rights activist in the USA. </span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You get proud by practicing by Laura Hershey <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you are not proud <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">For who you are, for what you say, for how you look;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">To think of yourself, you do not see yourself glowing <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">With golden light; do not, therefore, give up on yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You can get proud. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You do not need <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A better body, a purer spirit, or a Ph.D. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A lot of money, a handsome boyfriend, or a nice car. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">To be able to walk, or see, or hear, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Or use big, complicated words, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">To be proud. A caseworker <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">All night to the voices <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Of a hundred and fifty others <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In a circle <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Where your brothers and sisters are being held <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">For blocking buses with no lifts, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Or you can be one of the ones <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Inside the jailhouse, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Knowing of the circle outside. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You can speak your love <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You can find someone who will listen to you <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And let you hear yourself perhaps <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">For the very first time. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">These are all ways <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Of getting proud. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">None of them <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Are easy, but all of them <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You can do all of these things, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Or just one of them again and again. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You get proud <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">By practicing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Comes in many fine forms <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Supple and rich as butterfly wings. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It is music when you practice opening your mouth <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And liking what you hear <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Because it is the sound of your own <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">True voice. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Strength and beauty in everyone, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Including yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It is dance when you practice knowing <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Is the right way for you <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And cannot be called wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">All these hold <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Makes you proud. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You get proud <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Remember, you weren’t the one <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Who made you ashamed, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But you are the one <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Who can make you proud. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Just practice, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Practice until you get proud, and once you are proud, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Keep practicing so you won’t forget. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You get proud <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am so very proud and excited to announce that the Disability Pride Mural is going to be reinstalled as an arts event as part of this year's <a href="https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/disability-pride-is-back/" target="_blank">Melbourne Fringe Festival</a>, September 13-30!</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Announcing the proud reinstallation of Melbourne’s first Disability Pride mural, bigger and better than it was before. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">This live art installation/performance brings together some of Melbourne's best known disability artists and activists to reinstall a collaborative paste up mural that celebrates the diverse, rich, but often hidden culture of Melbourne’s disabled community. This Disability Pride mural also challenges narrow stereotypes of disability, reclaims public space and makes a stand that joins with the International Disability Pride movement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Disability Pride is Back!</i> is led and produced by visual artist and disability activist Larissa MacFarlane, already known for exploring her own disability culture through her handstand paste-ups across Melbourne’s streets. In talking about what led her to create this community artwork, Larissa says:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">'I live with 19 year old brain injury and this journey of acquiring and learning to live with a disability has had incredible highs and lows. And it is a journey that I want to be proud of. But in a society that doesn’t value disability, I have often found myself silenced and shamed. After learning about the International Disability Pride movement, with a 30 year history of worldwide parades and marches, I wanted to bring some of that joy here, to Melbourne. I wanted to create a public space for people to explore and share the power of identifying as disabled, and to tell our stories, together, in public, with pride. This mural will be a day of celebrating our disabilities and madness.’</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Disability Pride is about reclaiming our identities and bodies as our own. It seeks to change the way people think about and define <i>disability</i>, to break down and end the internalised shame among people with disabilities, and to promote the idea that disability is a natural and beautiful part of human diversity in which we can take pride. Disability Pride also aligns with the Social Model of Disability that sees disability as caused by the way society is organised, rather than by a person’s impairment or difference. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Between 11 and 4 on September 20</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Larissa will be joined by diverse members of Melbourne’s disabled community in a mass paste up party, to install the artwork of over 40 people with disability.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">It will be a great display of the often hidden culture of disability. People with disabilities represent 20% of the population, and yet we are practically invisible in employment, public life, civic participation and our media. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">This event is leading the way forward in being disability led and produced. We hope to see many more disability led art projects in this country into the future. This Disability Pride mural is the first of many more to come.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Artwork installation will take place during the first week of the Fringe Festival (13-20) with a mass paste up party on Thursday 20th September 11-4. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">People with disability are welcome to join us to help install the mural. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Join us for the grand launch at 3pm, Thursday 20th September.</span></span></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-85805639533177470522018-08-05T00:08:00.000-07:002018-08-05T00:08:03.140-07:00The Overwintering Project<span style="font-size: large;">My printmaking practice has slowed down heaps since I started work on a big new project at <a href="https://www.braininjurymatters.org/" target="_blank">Brain Injury Matters</a> in May (more about that in another post). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am also currently working very hard to organise the <a href="http://larissamacfarlane.blogspot.com/2018/07/" target="_blank">Disability Pride is Back!</a> community art project. Please see my last post to find out more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I am really missing the thinking, experimenting and creating time that goes into making new print works, that can be so nourishing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But somehow, I recently found the time, in snatches, to create a new linocut.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kate Gorringe-Smith is the amazing organiser of <a href="https://www.theoverwinteringproject.com/" target="_blank">The Overwintering Project</a>. And I really wanted to contribute. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here's the result. It's a 2 block linocut. A 3rd block was planned but I ran out of time. So I kept it simple. Two of the prints of the edition of 7 have been donated to the project, to support the building of awareness of the importance of migratory birds and wetlands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I feel lucky to live not far from some amazing wetlands in Williamstown and Altona, including the Jawbone Marine Sanctuary. Due to its history as a Rifle Range, it has been fenced off for over 80 years, protecting a distinctive and wide biodiversity, that is also home to the only remaining site of mangroves that grow on a basalt plain in Victoria. And I am grateful to all the people who have worked so hard over so many years to protect such coastal lands, as well as the ongoing work of people across the world to protect wetlands that keep not just the free global passage of migratory birds, but keep our planet alive." Larissa MacFarlane 2018</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Disability Pride collaborative paste up mural will be going back up on the wall of the Footscray Exchange Building in the coming months! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And there will be an awesome paste up party to come along to and celebrate our disability culture!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In late 2017, I co-ordinated a community project to create a paste up mural in my hometown inner city suburb of Footscray to celebrate Disability Culture and Pride.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It culminated in a night time event, as part of a bigger local arts festival, One Night in Footscray, on November 24. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over 40 disabled artists and activists, came together on a hot summer's evening, at the base of the Footscray Telstra Exchange building, to install a mural that had taken weeks to prepare, and that celebrated our culture and community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Disability Pride is not a common occurrence in Australia, unlike other parts of the world. Whilst the USA has been holding annual Disability Pride marches for almost 30 years, there has only been a tiny smattering of Disability Pride events in Australia. So this really was an amazing night!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But just over a week later, the morning after International Day of People with Disability, on December 4, the mural was erroneously removed by the local council's graffiti clean up team. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was supposed to have stayed there indefinitely. It had all the right permissions. It had also been partially funded by both the building owners, Telstra, and the local Maribyrnong City Council.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a shocking, heartbreaking moment for many of us. For some of the participating artists, it was their first time publicly identifying with disability and erasure of their stories hit hard. For other more seasoned disability activists, it came as little surprise to have our voice silenced yet again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the length of Australia's white history, disabled people have been marginalised, institutionalised, dismissed and denied basic human rights such as access to decent housing, education, employment, health care and civic participation. Disabled people are often pitied, viewed as a tragedy or if they are seen to exceed the low expectations placed upon them, they are then viewed as inspirational. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Disability Pride is about reclaiming our identities and bodies as our own. It is about changing the way </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit;">people think about and define</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit;">disability</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit;">, to break down and end the internalized shame among people with disabilities, and to promote the belief in society that disability is a natural and beautiful part of human diversity in which people living with disabilities can take pride. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When the mural was destroyed after only a week in place, </span>the<span style="font-family: inherit;"> disabled community rose up to make this a media issue. My initial Facebook post was shared over 200 times. And the mural destruction was covered in </span>many<span style="font-family: inherit;"> mainstream media. Here's some links. <a href="https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/council-cops-a-spray-as-contractors-tear-down-disability-artwork-20171205-gzz855.html" target="_blank">The Age</a>. <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-05/maribyrnong-council-apologises-over-mural/9229238" target="_blank">ABC Online</a> <a href="http://www.starweekly.com.au/news/macfarlane-devastated-by-loss-of-disability-pride-artwork/" target="_blank">The Star</a>.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The issue also got on the National TV ABC news, where I was </span>interviewed<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>alongside<span style="font-family: inherit;"> disability </span>activist Carly Findlay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And for the past 6 months I have seriously struggled to know how to move forward, and put Disability Pride back on the wall. It has been truly miserable. The way forward seemed obvious - if I had done it before, then I could do it again. And of course, I am well aware of the silver lining of the whole debacle -the media coverage of the mural's destruction, has meant that the concept of Disability Pride has probably reached a far greater audience than if it had stayed on the building.</span></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-61904773990497567402018-07-19T21:22:00.000-07:002018-07-19T21:22:48.959-07:00INK MASTERS Print exhibition 2018<span style="font-size: large;">Pretty chuffed to have two of my etchings included in this years' biennial <a href="https://inkmasterscairns.com.au/exhibitions/inkmasters-print-exhibition-inkfest-2018?referrer=exhibitions" target="_blank">Inkmasters</a> Print exhibition, in Cairns, Queensland. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The exhibition opens July 27 and runs until August 19, at the<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(202, 39, 42);">Tanks Art Centre. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(202, 39, 42);">I won't be going, but if you can go, then please do, and let me know how it is.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Eighteen years ago, my life was turned upside down by a brain injury, requiring me to rebuild a life based on a person who thought, felt, saw and heard the world differently to the one I had known for 29 years. I also found myself with a new birth date, an anniversary that each year presents me with a confusing dilemma of celebratory survival and deeply felt loss. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<br />Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-85806215328056015422018-07-04T18:07:00.000-07:002018-07-04T18:07:03.206-07:00I was interviewed by ABC Radio National!!!<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-24/how-a-brain-injury-birthed-a-handstand-loving-artist/9184288">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-24/how-a-brain-injury-birthed-a-handstand-loving-artist/9184288</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last year, 2017, was a bit of a whirlwind year. A lot happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The year started with my health at a very, very low point but then with some new drugs, by April, things had turned around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With new found energy and thinking clarity, I found myself undertaking all sorts of new challenges related to my art practice and disability activism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope to share some of the amazing opportunities I had, as well as some of the more dramatic and challenging outcomes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But it might take some time. After all, I do live with chronic illness, mostly associated with my brain injury. So not only is my time and energy limited, but my ability to be online and use computers is also significantly restricted (due to the ABI nausea).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But a friend of a friend recently posted on Facebook a link to an interview I did with the ABC Radio in November last year. To be truthful, I had almost forgotten about this. It took place at the time when I was a little overwhelmed. I was in the middle of an amazing arts residency at Footscray Community Arts Centre, which included my biggest so far solo gallery show, as well as preparing for two community and public murals about Disability Pride...and I was yet to discover what it is like to be at the centre of a little media storm (more about that in another post!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These 3 small linocuts (12 x12cm) are part of my ongoing series of works using images of train tracks. These are </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">informed by my own life living with disability, and use the metaphor of train journeys, to investigate how we navigate life’s encounters, discover new meanings for life, find places to belong to, as well as propose ways that can celebrate what we have in the here and now.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-51459838456967888812018-06-18T18:39:00.000-07:002018-06-18T18:39:57.829-07:00Castlemaine Press International Print Exchange 2018<span style="font-size: large;">I am just finalising my edition of 10 linocut prints, to send off in the post, for this year's 2018 Castlemaine Press International Print Exchange.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The theme is 'In My Backyard'...and this linocut is entitled <i>'Trucks in my backyard'.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There's a lot of trucks where I live in Footscray in Victoria. And I have spent quite a bit of my life fighting to get trucks of our residential streets in the inner west of Melbourne's city. I have also spent a good deal of my life advocating for more sustainable transport options such as a better networked and more reliable public transport system, more freight on rail, as well as better and safer conditions for cyclists. Sometimes it feels like not much progress has been made over the 30 years that I have been active in such campaigning. While so much of the world is investing in alternative and sustainable transport, our governments in Australia continue to fund and build more multi billion dollar road based projects that prioritise cars and trucks. Which reminds me to go and pick up a new sign for my fence against the most recent new road tunnel/freeway cutting through my suburb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, I participate a lot in print exchanges. I love the idea of creating artwork, sending it off in the post, sometimes to the other side of the world, and receiving back the work of other artists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the time, I was a little disappointed in how this linocut turned out, especially given the many layers and weeks that it took to make. The reduction linocut process can be very challenging. So I remade the artwork using a single block. I am not sure which one I like better, but I like them both.</span></div>
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Thirty new and recent artworks marking my relationship to place and time, as I turn 49 years young.<br />
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I have a new exhibition opening this Thursday 5th October at the Footscray Community Arts Centre.</div>
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If you are in town, please come and join me.</div>
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This is also a gallery residency, so I will be working on some new art in the gallery over the next 2 months. So you are welcome to pop in, say hello, and help me celebrate my 18th year!</div>
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Many years ago, back in 2005, I cofounded a small community photo exhibition in my new home suburb of Seddon. I loved my new home, but I was struggling to feel like I belonged. I was 7 years post brain injury and although I had decided to break free of the disabling disability services mindset, and to live independently in the community, I didn't yet know how to create my new life. When I visited the local street shops or went to local community events, none of my disabled friends were there. The shops often weren't accessible, support wasn't available and many people didn't feel safe or included. And so in a possibly naive and idealistic way, we decided to create an event that would be inclusive of everyone, not just able bodied people. And we would put the project right in the middle of that community where we were invisible. </div>
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That first year in 2006, we met in the local park a few times, supported each other to take photos and the local council disability worker helped out. We found a shop willing to put in a temporary ramp that we had built and we invited all our disabled friends to come and put up or view our photo exhibition. </div>
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And every year, the project grew, until in 2011, there was nearly 200 entries displayed in over 20 shop windows. </div>
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I left that year, to focus on my own art studies. (The project has happened 3 times since, led by different locals, although sadly without much attention to being inclusive of people who are marginalised or with disability.)</div>
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Anyway, over the past 2 years, with my new art skills, I have been dreaming of undertaking a new local project, to take some of the photographic entries, blow them up really big and put them up on walls throughout Seddon.</div>
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And this year has finally seen my health improve enough to undertake this ambitious project. (Except that it turned out to be even more ambitious than I had imagined!) </div>
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In the past 2 months, I have been working really hard to install 20 large artworks across public street walls across Seddon and beyond. I have had some great new and old friends help out.</div>
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These works are about 1.6 x 2m. Some of them are really high up. </div>
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So far they have received very favourable attention and only minimal 'tagging'. </div>
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I am exhausted but proud! And once again, I feel more connected to my community. And hopefully. others will too.</div>
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Thanks to all the owners of the brick walls who have granted me permission to use them. Thanks to all the people who helped choose the final 20 out of 800 past Snapshots of Seddon entries. And thanks to Maribyrnong Council for giving me a small grant to undertake this project.</div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-10469702532419581012017-07-25T22:29:00.000-07:002017-07-25T22:29:07.887-07:00Marking the Anniversary with Vitruvius<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Marking the Anniversary with Vitruvius</i>, etching, 35 x 26cm</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"Eighteen years
ago, my life was turned upside down by a brain injury, requiring me to rebuild
a life based on a person who thought, felt, saw and heard the world differently
to the one I had known for 29 years. I also found myself with a new birth date,
an anniversary that each year presents me with a confusing dilemma of
celebratory survival and deeply felt loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><span style="font-size: large;">My 18th
anniversary found me taking comfort in the studies of Vitruvius and Leonardo da
Vinci: both scholars, separated by 14 centuries, and fascinated by the
relationship of the body to the universe. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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using the same dimensions, body proportions and mirror writing that he used, I
created my own manifesto to mark my entry into adulthood, using my extensive
studies of the body in pain and exploring my 12 yearlong ritual of hand standing."</span></i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This artwork is currently winging its way to Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop. It was selected for the inaugural <a href="https://qgw.com.au/event/ppp-exhibition/" target="_blank">Peebles Print Prize</a>, August 3 - September 10.</div>
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I began creating this work in October last year (2016) on the eve of the 18th anniversary of my brain injury. 18th birthdays are big, for everyone. I wanted to make something grand to recognise the time passed, and to acknowledge my skills, my survival and my suffering. I decided that it was the perfect time to hang out with greats such as Leonardo and Vitruvius. And in my little manifesto exploring the body and the Universe, written onto the copper plate, on 12 October 2016, I discovered that I have done over 20, 000 handstands! Quite an achievement.</div>
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The back to front writing is called mirror writing. It was a favoured technique of da Vinci, some say, because he considered his thoughts rather secret, and others say, because he was a left hander and it prevented the ink smudging. But it isn't really a secret. If you place my work or his, up to a mirror, it can be easily read, (or just reverse the image on a computer!). But it is important to me (and probably to da Vinci too), that the text cannot be easily read, at least not straight away.</div>
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I am really enjoying being 18. It is still a challenging and emotionally turbulent time, maybe not unlike the experience of all other 18 year olds, but I finally feel like I am starting to grow into myself. I am growing up!</div>
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Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-58359124400756850862017-06-05T22:20:00.000-07:002017-06-05T22:20:43.362-07:00Happy New Year 2017Happy New Year!<br />
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Yes, I know that it is only two weeks until the Winter Solstice, but given I haven't posted in almost two years, it feels somewhat appropriate.<br />
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The past few years have been pretty tough with my health and although I have continued to make art, had a fair few exhibitions, and even won some amazing art prize awards, I just wasn't in the right place to share that in this space.<br />
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But these past few months have finally brought me out of the darkness and into a better space with respect to my identity, with more acceptance about my life living with 'disability', as well as some much appreciated health improvements.<br />
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So happy new year to all and especially to me!<br />
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This is a little linocut, only 12x12cm, that I created to mark my 48th year. I was born in the year of the Earth Rooster, and this year is the 4th time the Rooster year has cycled through my life.<br />
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I made a small edition which has been shared with the Animalia Print Exchange project. I am also gifting this linocut to all my Rooster friends (so let me know if you are also a Rooster and I will organise to gift you one too!)<br />
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Lots more news to follow, including catching up on some of the artworks that I have created over the past two years, as well as some current exciting projects that I am involved with.<br />
<br />Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-40274740965043504952015-08-24T20:40:00.000-07:002015-08-24T20:40:04.883-07:002015 Flanagan Art Prize winner!!Last Friday night was the opening of the 2015 Flanagan Art Prize. And much to my surprise, I was awarded the Emerging Artist Award!<br />
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That is a very nervous me with Dr Sam Henson, from Federation University, Ballarat, giving me the award. And just cut out of this photo is Euan Heng who was the judge of the Awards. He said some very nice things about my work, which you can read about <a href="http://www.stpats.vic.edu.au/en/students-parents-staff/music-and-performing-arts/flanagan-art-exhibition/" target="_blank">here</a>. It will also show photos of the other two winning works!<br />
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My art work that won, is an artist book, entitled <i>Letter to the Landlord</i>.<br />
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prints alongside some found words, and was hand bound in a traditional manner. It was inspired by a piece of writing I discovered
on the wall inside an abandoned house in Footscray in 2008. I have been working on and off with these words ever since. But last winter, exactly a year ago, I finally found a way to honour them with a fine artist book. These words share the often-unheard voice of the
homeless and thus draws attention to the lack of adequate housing in our affluent
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This book now enters the collection of the St Patrick's College in Ballarat.<br />
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Here's just a few of the pages of this book. Of course, these photos don't do justice to the actual experience of turning the pages and being immersed in this artwork.<br />
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<br />Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-20696026510731799712015-06-28T17:22:00.001-07:002015-06-28T17:23:19.629-07:00Printbank Mackay International Postcard Swap 2015 Earlier this year, I created an edition of 3 postcards, and posted them each to Queensland, to be part of the inaugural Printbank Mackay postcard swap.<br />
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I lined up part of the linoblock that I was carving for my solo show <i><a href="http://larissamacfarlane.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/first-exhibitions-for-2015and-they-are.html" target="_blank">Urban Reveries</a></i> and printed it onto some lovely paper that I had hand marbled a few weeks earlier.<br />
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The theme for the exchange was 'First'.<br />
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I have actually tried tightrope walking on a real tightrope wire a few times. I even took some classes. And it is harder than I imagined. Much harder! Every step feels like the first!<br />
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The exhibition of all the postcard entries is Friday July 17 at the Mackay Town Hall. (It is a very long way from me in Melbourne, so I sadly won't be there!)<br />
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So if like me, you can't get there, you can see the other postcard entries <a href="http://printbankmackay.mackaycreatives.com.au/2015/06/18/international-postcard-swap/" target="_blank">here </a>, but only until August 2015.<br />
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I am really looking forward to seeing my return postcards in the mail soon!!<br />
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<br />Larissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17906351813259431097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963595134959678831.post-53493201157726558332015-06-24T20:03:00.000-07:002015-10-12T23:16:12.902-07:00Exhibition of the 2014 alumni of the onefourfour project!Last weekend, saw the exhibition of the onefourfour 2014 alumni, at <a href="http://the-art-room.com.au/" target="_blank">The Art Room</a> in Footscray.<br />
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In 2014, 12 artists, including myself, created an artwork for each of the 12 months, to a monthly theme chosen by each artist. That makes 144 artworks in total!<br />
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It was a beautiful show. Thanks to <a href="http://www.ilonanelson.com/" target="_blank">Ilona Nelson</a> for her great leadership.<br />
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You can see all of the images and find out more at the <a href="http://onefourfour.org/" target="_blank">onefourfour</a> website<br />
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The project continues in 2015 with a whole new set of 12 artists.<br />
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But here's the 12 images that I created for each month. Each is 6x6inches.<br />
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It was a great project, and gave me the opportunity to experiment and create work outside my usual practice. Some of these works even turned out to be the beginnings of bigger works. (But that is a story to tell for another time!)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Harold and Mary</i>, linocut and ink on found map<br />
theme- light</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Portholes to beneath the surface</i>, linocut on found map<br />
Theme - Surface</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Crossings</i>, mixed media<br />
Theme- collage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>L-form bacteria</i>, Collograph, edition 6<br />
Theme - form</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Eureka SpaceStation</i>, linocut<br />
Theme - space</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This place is marked for future great handstands</i>, photograph<br />
Theme - place</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Once in the morning and then at night, everyday of the year</i>, Linocut<br />
Theme - repetition</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Epic Misplaced Adventures #34W,</i> linocut<br />
Theme - winter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A moment of encounter with potential transformation</i>, mixed media<br />
Theme - fear</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The colour of politics/The politics of colour</i>, artist book<br />
Theme - colour</td></tr>
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Theme - underneath</td></tr>
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Theme - reflections</td></tr>
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