‘Dog Robot Space Star: A Two Cathies Collaboration’ reviewed in Artlink by Jane Trengove
The exhibition Dog Robot Space Star: A Two Cathies Collaboration at Gertrude Contemporary by Catherine Bell and Cathy Staughton, also known as ‘The Two Cathies’, has been featured in ArtLink. In a review by fellow artist Jane Trengove, the article considers the conceptual efficacy of the exhibition, remarking on how “the works of Dog Robot Space Star tackle a duality of care, within the disability space and the human interface with artificial intelligence.”
Working collaboratively since 2009, Catherine Bell and Cathy Staughton have established a unique bond shaped by a shared visual language, social media, painting, filmmaking, a love of dogs, grief, loss and empathy. The exhibition Dog Robot Space Star: A Two Cathies Collaboration was on show at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, between 21 April – 20 May 2023.
Walkthrough ‘Other Body Knowledge: Contending with the mythic norm’
Jane Trengrove along with Katie Ryan has curated ‘Other Body Knowledge: Contending with the mythic norm’. Includig artists: Dion Beasley, Jane Trengove, Lara Chamas, Ruark Lewis, Sam Petersen, Sophie Cassar.
Jane Trengrove along with Katie Ryan has curated ‘Other Body Knowledge: Contending with the mythic norm’. Includig artists: Dion Beasley, Jane Trengove, Lara Chamas, Ruark Lewis, Sam Petersen, Sophie Cassar.
15 September – 8 October 2022 69 Capel Street, West Melbourne
Jane Trengove, in collaboration with Susan Long, is exhibiting at the Australian Catholic University Melbourne Gallery for Midsumma Festival 2022. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ S/He – On November 7, 1800, the prefecture of police for the city of Paris issued an order prohibiting women from wearing men’s clothing in public. … Henceforth, any cross-dressing women without proper documentation risked being arrested. The law remained in effect for 213 years, until it was declared null and void in 2013.
‘Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia’ by Anne Marsh
Doing Feminism represents over 220 artists and groups including Catherine Bell, Kate Beynon, Vivienne Binns, Anne Ferran, Elizabeth Gower, Sara Hughes, Helen Johnson, Laresa Kosloff, Lindy Lee, Rosslynd Piggott, Nusra Latif Qureshi and Jane Trengove, with 370 colour illustrations punctuated by extracts from artists’ statements, curatorial writing and critique.
Tracking networks of art practice, exhibitions, protest and critical thought over several generations, Marsh demonstrates the innovation and power of women’s art and the ways in which it has influenced and changed the contemporary art landscape in Australia and internationally.
Jane Trengove awarded Australia Council for the Arts Grant
Jane Trengove and Katie Ryan have been awarded an Australia Council for the Arts: Arts and Disability Mentoring Initiative grant of $30,000 for a peer-to-peer collaborative project to develop inclusive practice models in artist-run spaces
Curated by Dr Catherine Bell and including represented artists Helga Groves and Jane Trengove, FEM-aFFINITY brings together female artists from Arts Project Australia and across the country whose work shares an affinity of subject and process. The Devonport iteration runs until 15 March 2020 and will continue to tour nationally through out 2020-2021.
Jane Trengove and Catherine Bell participate in the Care Project Symposium week
Jane Trengove and Catherine Bell recently participated in the interdisciplinary symposium CARE: transforming values through art, ethics and feminism. Trengove and Bell co-presented the session: Whose Voice: Our Voices/Your Voices – Towards an Ethics of Care in Art Practice, alongside Pie Rankine and Susan Long. The symposium was an initiative of Care Project, a research project that explores how care in its many forms represents an alternative ethics to neo-liberalism. It will connect and explore researchers and artists working with care in a number of ways; Care as Relational, Care as Political Labour, Care as Moral Theory, Caring for earth/Country, Art Practice as Care – Care as Art Practice.
Jane Trengove has contributed to the remarkable new publication Queer Objects. The sixty-three chapters in this book consider what makes an object “queer” in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities across time, cultures and space. Queer Objects is co-published by Otago University Press, Rutgers University Press and Manchester University Press. It includes objects from New Zealand, Australia, North America, Thailand, Japan, the UK, France, Germany, Poland, Greece. Italy and Egypt. The book is available at Hares and Hyenas, 43 Johnston Street, Fitzroy.
Helga Groves and Jane Trengove are both included in FEM-aFFINITY, a group show curated by Catherine Bell. The exhibition brings together female contemporary artists from Arts Project Australia and wider Victoria whose work share an affinity of subject and process. In doing so, FEM-aFFINITY seeks to uncover shared perspectives and variations on female identity. Following its first iteration, the exhibition will tour nationally throughout 2020 and 2021.
