Art Matters #58 - Tracey Roberts 'Fly me to the Moon'
and Natasja Van Wyk and Kelly K Sullivan 'I can't believe were still protesting this'
Intro Track: Paprika Pony, Kim Gordon, No Home Record, 2019

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Today I chatted with Tracey Roberts - a contemporary visual and performing artist, and established singer-songwriter, who enjoys a rare and wonderful neurological condition called synesthesia.
In Tracey’s case, this means she sees colours and shapes whilst listening to, performing and creating music and her artwork is a reflection of the way she internally visualises these sounds.

Tracey currently has a solo exhibition called 'Fly me to the Moon' showing at Magnet galleries in the Docklands with 12 individual pieces created on specialized papers from around the world. The exhibition is celebrating these artworks going up to the moon in the Lunar Codex Polaris Mission in October.  See  www.lunarcodex.com  for more info. VERY FASCINATING STORY!!!

Check out www.traceyroberts.com for all of the info and to find out more about Traceys artistic journey.

Concert by Tracey this Friday 24th July from 7pm
Tickets $18 - available via this LINK

Artist talk on Wednesday 29th 11am 

And a closing event as well – on Sunday 2nd August 3pm

Magnet Galleries
SC G19 Wharf st 
The District
Docklands
Show runs until August 2nd 
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I also chatted with Textile artist - Natasja Van Wyk and Collage artist Kelly K Sullivan about their upcoming group show I Can’t Believe We're Still Protesting This!  - due to open at Burrinja in the Lyre Gallery on Saturday August 1st.

I Can’t Believe We're Still Protesting This! brings together four artists Natasja van Wyk - Nicole Kemp - Kelly K Sullivan and Empire of Stuff  as well as a few Anonymous contributors, whose practices examine the repeated return of political and social conditions that should already be behind us.

Moving across textile, pattern, assemblage, repetition, and material tension, the exhibition considers protest not simply as a public event or symbolic gesture, but as an ongoing lived condition.

At the core of the exhibition is the idea of repetition: repeated histories, repeated systems of power, repeated violences, repeated cultural pressures, and the repeated exhaustion of having to resist what should no longer need resisting. Feminism, war, political regression, consumer culture, and structural inequality all sit within this field. Rather than isolating these concerns into separate categories, the exhibition explores the ways they overlap and reappear through everyday life, through inherited structures, and through material experience.

Across the exhibition, familiar forms and surfaces become unsettled. Pattern, cloth, decoration, accumulation, and domestic materials are transformed into sites of tension, critique, endurance, and refusal. Beauty is not treated as separate from politics, but as one of the ways power is carried, softened, normalised, or resisted. The works ask how bodies, homes, labour, memory, and objects absorb and reflect broader social realities.

Come along to the opening launch celebration on Saturday August 1st at 2pm

I Can’t Believe We're Still Protesting This! 

Runs until Sept 6th 
Burrinja Lyre gallery 
351 Glenfern Rd 
Upwey VIC 3158
www.burrinja.org.au

Todays tracks:
Moonshadow, Tracey Roberts (cover)
Don't Bleed you're in the middle of the forest, Le Butcherettes
Rebel Girl, Bikini Kill
Yucky Boy, Bushpigs

A MASSIVE THANK YOU to all the Art Matters Subscribers:
Little Acres - Ange
Kelly K Sullivan – Collage Artist
Sing Song Ceramics - Selby
Elizabeth Gleeson – Muralist and fine artist
Shirley Dougan – Artist
Natasja - Textile artist
Rajko Grbac (sculptor)
The Forge Institute – Community Group
The Hut Gallery FERNTREE GULLY
Cheech the rescue staffy via Tass & Pottsy from Belgrave