UNSOLVED HISTORIES
Solo exhibition The Old Butchers Shop Gallery, Ballarat
Deborah Klein’s emblematic ‘rear view portraits’ allude to the countless women who have fallen through the cracks of history. Her latest solo exhibition marks the first time this body of paintings and works on paper, created over the last 6 years, has been exhibited in Ballarat.
DECORATED WOMEN
Animated Projection
White Night Ballarat
Deborah is a featured artist in White Night Ballarat, the city’s acclaimed festival of projections, illuminations, music and interactive works.
Deborah Klein’s enigmatic tattooed and masked women are the stuff of fairy tales. Adopting adornments drawn from nature, they metamorphose before our eyes, reclaiming the night in a veritable enchanted forest right in the heart of Ballarat.
Castlemaine Art Gallery
14 Lyttleton Street (PO Box 248)
Castlemaine VIC 3450
03 5472 2292 castlemaineartmuseum.org.au
Sunday 2 June, 10 – 11 am
DECORATED WOMEN
Solo exhibition Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
Tattooing has variously been described as the oldest profession after prostitution and tax collection, an act of bravery and a specialized art form that marks its wearer as the member of a tribe. The tattoo publicizes and politicizes through its permanence and visibility.
Comprising recent paintings and works on paper, Decorated Women revisits the tattooed faces and figures, a key theme in the artist’s oeuvre, taking it in entirely new directions.
Stephen McLaughlan Gallery
Level 8, Room 16
The Nicholas Building
37 Swanston Street
Melbourne, 3000 (Cnr. Flinders Lane)