Love Lines by The Salons
“The Salons - Love Lines" 10 - 27 August 2023
Image by Anastasia Keros
Artist/s
Erin Shiel
Rox De Luca
Faye Couros
Gemma Hay
Gillian Swain
Kelly Wallwork
ieva Clive
The Third Voice
Sarah St Vincent Welch
Dylan Jones Deby Cann + Alan Skipper (Recycletastic)
Richard James Allen
Magdalena Ball
Neha Kale
Paul Osborne
Katherine Giovenali
Siena Osborne
Gemma Hay
Anastasia Keros
Anna Couani
Kit Kelen
Kamaladevi Dharani
Josh Stenberg
Kerry Blake
Ethan Gandler
Harriet Rose Cook
Sunny Cook
Angie Contini
Artist/s statement
Which kinds of love, through which creative lines, require our urgent attention, rapture, reflection, reimagining, curiosity, laughter and compassion?
For three weeks in August, The Salons is returning to the Chrissie Cotter Gallery with love lines, a boutique program of art-after-hours experiences curated to respond to the theme of love.
Connecting artists and community to celebrate the magic and joy of the arts in daily life, our love lines program features a diverse ensemble of over 20 established, emerging and student artists working and playing in the worlds of poetry, music and the visual arts.
Through our bespoke program of free and ticketed events—including exhibition, performances, workshops and experiences—we invite you to forage amidst the varied perspectives, conversations, reflections and artistic expressions of love and its avatars.
The love lines visual arts group exhibition includes our interdisciplinary word artworks experiment, which features new works by artists collaborating across varied styles of creative writing and visual arts. The myriad of thematic interpretations includes ironic installations of self-care, cagy collaborations with past-selves, generational triptychs of familial sacrifice, empowering testimonies of eco-love through diverse rituals of trash transformation, archaic physiognomies, bodily adornments, ekphrastic reversals and confessions of nomadic wandering.
With free and ticketed events, our curated program also includes: opening and closing performance evenings; a poetry performance and artist panel with Gillian Swain and Magdalena Ball; an empathy-based poetry-of-art workshop with Erin Shiel; four-part harmony vocal workshops featuring songs of Bowie and Bush, with the ever-inspiring The Third Voice; and an open day of creative play through eco and sustainable arts practice, with Angie Contini, ieva Clive and Kerry Blake.
- Opening Night,Friday 11 August 6pm - 8pm
- Program Dates: Thursday 10 - 27 August
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- Website: thesalons.org