Exploring the consequences of colonisation on nature, a Craighead old girl's photographic exhibition, The Missionaries, is set to open at the Aigantighe Art Gallery.
Ann and Duncan’s efforts were a big success at the recent Resene Total Colour Awards. In the awards, which recognise excellence in colour and paint use, the couple won the Resene Total Colour Heritage Residential Award. They also took away the colour competition’s top gong, the Resene Total Colour Master Nightingale Award, named after the Nightingale family, who founded Resene and still runs the company today. When Ann and Duncan purchased the home in 2013, the house did not have its kaleidoscopic gush factor. The gorgeous rimu ply walls and cabinetry were mostly faithful to the original 1957 design. However, Nancy’s original Bauhaus-inspired colour scheme, which saw the walls, floors and cabinetry painted in contrasting colours, had been painted over in the blandest-of-bland whites.
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If you google “herbal abortion,” sisterzeus.com might be one of your top online search results. The throwback GeoCities-era website, which describes itself as “a women’s guide to synergistic fertility management,” offers information after clicking through several disclaimers about plants that could induce menstruation (emmenagogues) and abortion (abortifacients). In 2015, the New Zealand–based photographer Ann Shelton began researching and taking pictures of herbs that have historically been used to control female fertility. In her ongoing series “jane says,” started that year, Shelton shapes the florae into stunning, minimal ikebana arrangements a metaphor, per the artist, for the regulation of female bodies. She grows some of the plants in her lush garden in the town of Hahei. Shelton’s DIY process would be a labor of love for anyone; but considering New Zealand’s longtime abortion ban, it as
âWhat is your truth?â: The selfie project celebrating Melbourneâs many faces
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Melbourneâs streets have this week been transformed into open-air galleries displaying works from some of photographyâs biggest local and international names for the PHOTO 2021 festival. But the hundreds of black and white portraits pasted up in Federation Square are largely works of local amateurs. Photography, after all, belongs to everyone in the Instagram age.
These self-portraits form Inside Out, a global art project started in 2011 by French street artist JR, which has so far featured more than 250,000 participants in 129 countries, the world s largest participatory art project. In each country, participants have submitted portraits around themes such as diversity, hope and climate change.