Vanessa Murray
Freelance writer, yogini, lover, friend. Inspired by: doers, text and image, conversation. Into: gin, honesty, 70% lindt, electronica, black comedy. Over: processed cheese, gender based comedy, warm beer, naysayers, mass reproduction. Planning to: get it together real soon.
Posts by Vanessa Murray
Filed under: Art
2008 marks the centenary of Women’s Suffrage in Victoria. To celebrate, the Counihan Gallery in Brunswick is hosting an exhibition around the themes of female empowerment and emancipation.
Women’s Salon 2008: Persuasive Dissent seeks to explore, through art, current issues of significance to women that impact on their sense of equality and liberty. It’s a diverse exhibition in a great space, with mixed media works in a range of mediums, from painting and woodblock prints to collage and crochet. Pictured here is Agota Molnar’s red-hot don’t f*ck with me high-heel. The emancipated kitchen wench in me especially likes Mish Cahill’s Aboriginal-inspired textile apron-skirt, while my inner magpie loves Ellinor Mazza’s stunning amethyst bejeweled necklace. All works are for sale. The exhibition runs until 20 April, 2008.
Counihan Gallery in Brunswick
233 Sydney Road, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday 11 am – 5 pm
Sunday 1 pm – 5 pm
Filed under: Fashion
Darling Town is alive and kicking up her sexy French heels in the streets of Melbourne. A beautiful boutique stocking a range fine and fancy Australian made and vintage/retro women's clothing, shoes and accessories, Darling Town opened in Spring 2007, and is fast captivating Melbourne’s Chapel Street style vixens with its heady mix of vintage, contemporary, sultry and punk-chic styles.
I especially love this dress from owner Audra’s own label Red Orchid…rock n roll baby.
Check out Darling Town on myspace or in the flesh at 190 High St, Prahran 3181.
Filed under: Culture
I went to the theatre in Melbourne tonight at the last minute invitation of a friend, to the opening night of a local production by Company 13 called D.E.A.D. - Department of Existence and Death. Six people on stage with minimal props doing what good actors do best – transporting the audience to another time, another place...and another plane, in the case of D.E.A.D. This hour long play visits the office of a gaggle of officious, confused, and nutty bureaucrats responsible for processing people from life to death, where even the post mortem needs a post mortem. It’s clever, funny and very tongue in cheek. On until February 16th at the Carlton Courthouse.
