BAD GIRLS

Alison Alder, Jane Barney, Vivienne Binns, Rachel Bowak, Jacqualine Bradley, Julie Bradley, Mariana del Castillo, Julia Church, Fiona Davies, Anna Eggert, Cherylynn Holmes, Catriona Holyoake, Stephanie Jones, Deborah Kelly, Mandy Martin, eX de Medici, Brenda Runnegar, Bronwen Sandland, Ericca Seccombe, Ruth Waller

Curated by Anni Doyle Wawrzynczak

8 February - 16 March 2014, CCAS Gorman
Exhibition opening 6pm Friday 8 February 2014

Beginning in 1981, successive waves of women artists associated with the Canberra Contemporary Art Space have expressed the changing nature of feminist concerns. Bad Girls brings this thirty-year journey to today’s audience via historic and contemporary artworks from artists who continue to create at the forefront of rapidly changing social and political dynamics. Bad Girls are everywhere. They’re our grandmothers, mothers, sisters, daughters and aunts; they’re single, straight, transgendered, gay and married; for all or some of their life they’ve been artists; they’ve painted, printed, postered, sculpted and photographed subjects that reflect their own secret desires, burning issues and universal feminist concerns with energy, insight, humour, pathos, hopeand righteous anger. Bad Girls are our heroines. In this exhibition we celebrate their journey in art and, through their journey, the changing face of feminist concerns over three decades.

Image: Alison Alder Even a man can do it, 1981, brown paper bag, screenprint,