Visual Arts – artHOUSE
artHOUSE is the new home for art for this year’s Festival with artworks in every room presenting a slice of daily domestic family life.
The Motherhood Foundation explores where all the time goes juggling home and work, with a ‘real life’ film installation by three local working parents.
Sophie Cullinan celebrates the domestic mundanity that is the lot of the Housewife and Mother. Iron-scorched shirts, old jam jar lids and worn out clothes are used to transform and redeem the label of lowly housewife into one of glory.
Through a series of photographs and a collection of artefacts, Tom Mitchell explores the relationship between three generations of men and our contemporary understanding of what it means to be a father and a son.
Using the domestic setting as her starting point, Michelle Laverty investigates the everyday in women’s lives. Her works on paper highlight evidence of the daily extent of repetition and endurance.
Janet Griffiths explores the state of a bored housewife who, to relieve her mundane domestic life, creates characters and scenarios using video and digital photography. Her installation ‘Washing Not Drowning’ invites you to bring along your odd socks to be included in the work.
Saturday performances at 12 noon, 2pm and 4pm feature The Durds, an electronic folk and pop group. Music, performance and art combine to tell stories about gender, family and upbringing and the paraphernalia of domestic life is brought to life.
With a children’s drawing competition and a garden full of captured ‘Litterbugs’– home is where the art is.
artHOUSE, 2 Cranbourne Road | Sat 17 – Sun 18 May | 11am–6pm | Free
Preview: Fri 16 May | 6–8pm
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