LIGHT in MIND / COIL and ROAR
Liz Coats’ solo exhibition “Light in mind”, paintings on canvas, glass, paper and board, from series completed between the 1970s and the present, continues until Sunday Oct 26.
civicartbureau.com/exhibitions/liz-coats-light-in-mind
Clare Thackway and Emily O’Brien: COIL and ROAR
OPENING 3pm Saturday 1 November
An exhibition of new works by Paris-based Australian artist Clare Thackway and jeweller and sculptor Emily O’Brien, of Melbourne’s Studio Geld, speaking to the cultural legacies of gendered stories of shame, hysteria and transgression.
Eve Story
(after Burgundian workshop Illumination on parchment)
2025, Watercolour on Paper, 21x29.7cm
The exhibition’s title COIL and ROAR is drawn from the womb poems carved into ancient and medieval womb amulets. The charms bore images of dangerous, Medusa-like uteruses, emanating serpents from a woman’s face: “womb black, blackening, as the snake you coil and as a lion you roar” – mantras to smother, subdue and sedate female rage and rebellion.
- from forthcoming exhibition essay by Lauren Carrol Harris.
CIVIC ART BUREAU ONE YEAR ON
Last Saturday Oct 11 marked the first anniversary of Civic Art Bureau, celebrated with the reception for Liz Coats: LIGHT in MIND and a special birthday cake from Sweet Bones bakery.
