the mistresses
Remaking Adrienne Doig: Feminist Cliché (Dresden Plate), 2012
Website: adriennedoig.com
Instagram: @adriennedoig
Image: Adrienne Doig, Feminist Cliché (Dresden Plate), Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on linen, 99 x 77 cm, 2012
Remaking Annette Bezor: Watching you, seeing me, 1998
Website: bezor.com.au
Instagram: @annettebezor
Image: Annette Bezor, Watching you, seeing me, Panel 2 of 4, 4 @ 190 x 105 cm, Acrylic/Oil on fabric, 1998
Remaking Arlene TextaQueen: The Textanudes – Jack of Hearts, 2003
Arlene De Souza
Website: textaqueen.com
Instagram: @textaqueen
Image: Arlene TextaQueen, The Textanudes – Jack of Hearts, Texta on paper, 77 x 57 cm, 2003. Woven by Rachel Hine, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Wool and cotton, 77 x 57 cm
Remaking Barbara Cleveland: Performance Art (15 Actions for the Face), 2014
Diana Baker Smith, Frances Barrett, Kate Blackmore and Kelly Doley
Website: barbaracleveland.com.au
Instagram: @barbara__cleveland
Image: Barbara Cleveland, Performance Art (15 Actions for the Face), Multi-channel digital video, colour, sound, 15:34 minutes, 2014,
Collection: Museum of Contemporary Art
Remaking Bonita Ely and Melissa Williams-Brown: Menindee Fish Kill, 2019
Website: bonitaely.com
Website: melissawilliamsbrown.com
Instagram: #bonitaely
Instagram: @melissabrowninoz
Image: Bonita Ely and Melissa Williams-Brown, Menindee Fish Kill, photograph of a performance, dimensions variable, 2019
Remaking Deborah Kelly: Venus As A Boy, 2015
Website: artistdeborahkelly
Instagram: @deborahkellyartist
Image: Deborah Kelly, Venus As A Boy (from The Greater Venus Variations), Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, goldleaf, crystal, 60 x 30cm, 2015
Remaking Deidre But-Husaim: Self (painted beard), 2014
Website: but-husain.id.au
Instagram: @deidrepainter
Image: Deidre But-Husaim, Self (painted beard), oil on maple panel, 60 x 45 cm, 2014
Remaking Elvis Richardson: Found Paints Lane, 1966, 2012
Website: elvisrichardson.com
Instagram: @elvis.richardson
Image: Elvis Richardson: Found Paints Lane 1966, Type C print, 70 x 90 cm, 2012.
Remaking Emma Hack: Wallpaper series, 2005-10
Website: emmahackgallery
Instagram: @emmahackgallery
Image: Emma Hack, Wallpaper series, Painted Installation, 240 x 213cm, 2005-10
Remaking Fiona Hall: Nelum (Sinhala), Thamareri (Tamil) / Nelumbo nucifera / Lotus, 1999
Website: fiona-hall
Instagram: #fionahall
Image: Fiona Hall, Nelum (Sinhala), Thamareri (Tamil) / Nelumbo nucifera / Lotus, from the series Paradisus Terrestris, aluminium & tin, 26 x 18 x 4 cm, 1999
Remaking Hoda Afshar: Under Western Eyes – Westoxicated #7, 2014
Website: hodaafshar.com
Instagram: @hodaafshar
Image: Hoda Afshar, Under Western Eyes – Westoxicated #7, Archival Pigment Print 104 x 90 cm, edition of 5, 2014
Remaking Jenny Watson: White Horse with Telescope, 2012
Website: jenny-watson
Instagram: #jennywatson
Image: Jenny Watson, White Horse with Telescope, synthetic polymer paint on rabbit skin glue primed cotton, 2012
Collection: Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art
Remaking Julie Rrap: Overstepping, 2001
Website: julie-rrap
Instagram: #julierrap
Image: Julie Rrap, Overstepping, chromogenic print, framed, 124 × 124 × 8cm, 2001
Collection: Museum of Contemporary Art
Remaking Louise Weaver: Moonlight Becomes You (Silver Fox), 2001-2019
Website: louiseweaver
Instagram: @_louiseweaver
Image: Louise Weaver, Moonlight Becomes You (Silver Fox), Mixed media, Fox: 53 x 50 x 30 cm, Base: 20 x 54 x 45 cm (irregular), 2001-2019
Remaking Narelle Autio: The Summer of Us, 2009
Website: narelle-autio
Instagram: @chillioctopus #narelleautio
Image: Narelle Autio, The Summer of Us, 18 inkjet prints on paper, dimensions variable, 2009,
Collection: Art Gallery of South Australia
Remaking Petrina Hicks: Venus, 2013
Website: petrina-hicks
Instagram: #petrinahicks
Image: Petrina Hicks, Venus (from the series ‘The shadows’), Pigment ink-jet print, 100 x 100cm, 2013
Collection: National Gallery of Australia
Remaking Polixeni Papapetrou: “The test shot of myself with a wreath taken in the studio which sparked off the series ‘Eden’, 2016”, 2018
Website: polixenipapapetrou.net
Instagram: #polixenipapapetrou
Image: Polixeni Papapetrou, “The test shot of myself with a wreath taken in the studio which sparked off the series ‘Eden’, 2016” (Instagram post 15 Jan 2018)
Remaking Polly Borland: Untitled XXI (from the series ‘Smudge’), 2010
Website: pollyborland.com
Instagram: @polly_borland
Image: Polly Borland, Untitled XXI (from the series Smudge), chromogenic prints, 2010
Remaking Prudence Flint: The Fitting, oil on linen, 130 x 107 cm, 2019
Website: prudenceflint.com
Instagram: @prudenceflint
Image: Prudence Flint, The Fitting, oil on linen, 130 x 107 cm, 2019
Remaking Rosemary Laing: Flight research #6, 1999
Website: rosemary-laing
Instagram: #rosemarylaing
Image: Rosemary Laing, Flight research #6, C Type print, 70 x141 cm, 1999
Collection: National Gallery of Australia
Remaking Sarah crowEST: #straponpaintings, 2016
Website: sarahcrowest.com
Instagram: @sarah_crowest
Image: Sarah crowEST: Residue of Some Fierce Action 2016 with Pebblehead, St Kilda #2, in #straponpaintings installation view, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2016 Photograph: Christian Capurro
Remaking Sasha Grbich & Kelly Reynolds: Last Nights in Cities, 2019-20
Website: kellyreynolds.net
Website: sashagrbich.net
Instagram: @sasha_grbich
Instagram: @kelly_marie_reynolds
Image: Sasha Grbich and Kelly Reynolds, Last Nights in Cities, vinyl recordings, cardboard box speakers dimensions variable, performance, 2019-20
Remaking Sera Waters: Leaky Sleep of the Sullied, 2017
Website: serawaters.com.au
Instagram:@serawaters
Image: Sera Waters, Leaky Sleep of the Sullied, Found bedspread, hand-dyed bed sheets, cotton, stuffing, rope & found handles, 250 x 190 cm, 2017.
Remaking Soda_Jerk: TERROR NULLIUS, 2018
Dominique and Dan Angeloro
Website: sodajerk.com.au
Instagram: @soda______jerk
Image: Soda_Jerk, TERROR NULLIUS, digital video, colour, sound, 54 minutes, 2018
Remaking VNS Matrix: A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century, 1991
Josephine Starrs, Julianne Pierce, Francesca da Rimini and Virginia Barratt
Website: vnsmatrix.net
Instagram: @vns_matrix
Image: VNS Matrix: A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century, dimension and media variable, 1991
Remaking Yvette Coppersmith: Self-portrait, after George Lambert, 2018
Website: yvettecoppersmith.com
Instagram: @yvettecoppersmith
Image: Yvette Coppersmith: Self-portrait, after George Lambert, Oil and Acrylic on Linen, 132 x 112 cm, 2018
…there are always more mistresses to be remade…