Anna Dorrington
From the 5th to the 30th of September 2016
the Serpentine Community Gallery will be the venue for
local artist Anna Dorrington's solo exhibition
"Fairytales".
'My interests lie in the area of feminist critiques of
the history of women in society in the 1960s and 1970s,
and the effects these social conditions have had
on contemporary constructions of society and women,'
said Anna of her upcoming show.
The opening celebration for
"Fairytales"
will take place on Sunday
the 11th of September from 2pm.
Also on view during these dates: Zac Theroux's
"A work in Progress" and the group show "Vollies".
At the opening, Anna Dorrington
with her artwork
'When I Was A Little Girl'.
'Girraween'
aquatint works
'Sandels are cheap'
from on a paper plane - April/May 2016
'Landscape'
Lino-reduction print
'Wattle Flower'
aquatint
December 2015
From 16th September 2015,
two of our innovative and inspiring local female artists will be holding separate exhibitions:
- a collection of recent work by
Anna Dorrington -
and
- a solo exhibition by Paulette Hayes.
Both these exhibitions are on show from
16th September to 13th October.
The Opening Night celebration
is on Friday 18th September, 6-8pm.
A multimedia artist who reinvents found materials and retro images in her work,
Anna’s exhibition
'Under Pressure'
looks at the somewhat antiquated
and disempowering ritual of
the extravagant wedding
and what it implies for the modern woman.
'Going to a Place'
Mixed Media
from Place - the Serpentine Community Gallery Art Prize
held in August 2015
With each artist giving her take on
the theme 'Line and Body' in a joint show,
a selection of Anna Dorrington's and Georgina Dorrington's
artworks will grace the gallery during April 2015.
About her exhibition entitled
'Colourful Feminism', Anna states:
“Women have always found ways
to bring colour into their lives.
I have with this exhibition indulged in both,
my abstract side and ‘yes’ my handcraft side.”
On view 1 – 21 April 2015.
While talking about her exhibition titled
Georgina states:
“You never see all of me,
so I’ll only show you parts of me”.
On view 1 – 14 April 2015.
'Let's Not Follow The Leader'
mixed media
- the Serpentine Community Gallery Art Prize exhibition -
November 2014
Running from 30 September until 20 October 2014,
local artist Anna Dorrington presents the exhibition
- concurrently with up and coming Brisbane artist
Jamie Mumford's exhibition titled
Confirming her interest in exploring and exposing issues
about the role of women, female identity and society's expectations of the ideal woman, in this exhibition
Anna Dorrington delves into the rich history of
folk and fairy tales, exemplified by the Grimm brothers.
These tales have, for centuries, codified women's roles.
This rich vein of storytelling laid out the rewards for the compliant, good woman, and the pitfalls for women who
buck the system or threaten the status quo. In the fairy tale the good woman gets her prince, while the strong woman
gets her comeuppance. Anna has drawn on the magical
and dreamlike qualities of this tradition of storytelling
to force the viewer to ask, who were the real heroes
and the real villains of the familiar tales?
Opening celebrations are on 3 October, from 6pm.
'After the War I'
'Glorious Paper'
linen pulp
'After the War II'
'After the War III'
'After the War IV'
from Scarlet - September 2014