Exhibitions | Richard Bell - Elizabeth Gower - Mithu Sen and Pushpa Rawat | RMIT Gallery

Richard Bell | Imagining Victory

Opening Night: Thursday 10 March | 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: 11 March - 23 April

Opening Speaker | Professor Paul Gough, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Vice President, College of Design and Social Context, RMIT University Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic and Vice-President, RMIT University

Drawing heavily upon the mechanisms of activism, this significant solo exhibition by leading Australian artist Richard Bell is centred on a trilogy of recent video projects that attempts to dig beneath the veneer of cultural integration to expose how racism can be deeply embedded and passed on to future generations. An Artspace exhibition toured by Museums & Galleries of NSW.

Curator: Alexie Glass-Kantor | Artist: Richard Bell

Public Program - Wednesday 16 March, 1-2 pm
Discussion | Dr Greg Creek RMIT: The use of narrative and satire in video art

Dr Greg Creek is a senior lecturer in the RMIT School of Art and is coordinator of the MFA Advanced Seminar Program. His work represents a political perspective on personal and public histories using narrative, allegory and satire in large painting and drawing projects. In 2013 he completed a PhD on relations between art and political cartooning.

Free. Bookings essential | (03) 9925 1717 / rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au

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Elizabeth Gower | he loves me, he loves me not

Opening Night: Thursday 10 March | 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: 11 March - 23 April

Opening Speaker | Dr Leslie Cannold Ethicist, researcher, author

Women in all cultures are encouraged to seek validation at an early age, by conforming to prescribed behaviours, sanctioned body image, fashion, career and lifestyle choices. In the handwritten phrase he loves me, he loves me not RMIT Alumnus Elizabeth Gower poses the question 21,319 times symbolically representing a lifetime of re-evaluation and wavering, resilience and resolve.

Curator: Suzanne Davies | Artist: Elizabeth Gower

Public Program - Thursday 7 April, 5.30-6.30 pm
Panel Discussion | “Seeking Approval: A Question of Power, Gender or Culture?”

Speakers Dr Elizabeth Gower (artist, educator) Dr Leslie Cannold (ethicist, researcher, author The Book of Rachael, What, No Baby? The Abortion Myth), Ms Sushi Das (Opinion Editor, The Age, author Deranged Marriage), and Dr Meagan Tyler (RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, editor Freedom Fallacy: The limits of liberal feminism).

Free. Bookings essential | (03) 9925 1717 / rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au

Friday 15 April, 1-2 pm | Artist Talk | he loves me, he loves me not? Dr Elizabeth Gower

The he loves me, he loves me not installation is an extension of a small perishable work initially created in Paris in 2007. The project developed into a large scale, site-specific installation at RMIT Gallery and this had a direct correlation to the concept and content of the work.

Free.Bookings essential | (03) 9925 1717 / rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au

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Mithu Sen and Pushpa Rawat | Quiet Voices

Opening Night: Thursday 10 March | 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: 11 March - 23 April

Opening Speaker | Ms Sushi Das Opinion Editor, The Age, author

The works by Mithu Sen and Pushpa Rawat poetically address issues women face with obligation, patriarchy and the inter-generational dynamic.

For her multi-media installation I have only one language; it is not mine renowned Delhi-based artist Mithu Sen spent a month at a Kerala orphanage to experience firsthand what life was like for these marginalised young girls. Nirnay (Decision) the debut film of director Pushpa Rawat explores Pushpa’s journey and that of her young, educated women friends on the outskirts of Delhi who feel powerlessly obligated when it comes to taking any major decision regarding their future.

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