‘Fabulous Maude’ showcases the contrasts and commonalities between a pioneering Creswick female artist of the late 1800s, Maude Glover Fleay, and a group of modern contemporary female Ballarat artists: Kim Anderson, Claire Blake, Rachel Grose, Lindsay Matthews, Susan Nethercote, Kat Ratcliffe, Clare Schreenan and Pauline O’Shannessy Dowling.
Kim Anderson, The Bush Maid, 2018, ink, charcoal and pastel on paper, 75 x 105cm. Courtesy the artist and The Lost Ones Contemporary Art Gallery, Victoria
From fine art, abstract contemporary works right through to ceramics and jewellery, ‘Fabulous Maude’ is designed to examine the similarities and differences faced by female artists in Australia – the pressures to conform, the fact of fewer available opportunities to excel, and the way in which these obstacles can often help create the richest creative response.
This group exhibition breathes a new power into Maude’s artistic work, celebrating her energies and reinventing her for today.
Susan Nethercote, Flowers for Maude, 2018, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 122 x 153cm. Courtesy the artist and The Lost Ones Contemporary Art Gallery, Victoria
The Lost Ones Contemporary Art Gallery
16 May to 3 June, 2018
Victoria
