{"id":11512,"date":"2014-04-07T13:38:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T11:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=11512"},"modified":"2014-04-07T13:41:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T11:41:53","slug":"sydney-kitchen-sink-and-other-domestic-disturbances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/sydney-kitchen-sink-and-other-domestic-disturbances\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney: Kitchen Sink and Other Domestic Disturbances"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press Release by Anne Bentley<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Invitation<\/p>\n

Anne Bentley & Meggs Yeo \u2013 cousins alone together for the first time in:<\/p>\n

Kitchen Sink and Other Domestic Disturbances
\n7 \u2013 17 May, 2014
\nSheffer Gallery
\n38 Lander Street Darlington, Sydney 2008 (02) 9310 5683
\nWednesday – Saturday 11AM \u2013 6PM<\/p>\n

Opening with a welcome by special guest artist, Linda Brescia
\nSaturday 10th May 2014 2PM \u2013 6PM<\/p>\n

Kitchen Sink and Other Domestic Disturbances<\/h2>\n

Notorious killers and death by lawnmower \u2013 embroidery, photography, painting and collage \u2013 over 50 works comprise a new exhibition by Meggs Yeo & Anne Bentley.<\/p>\n

Kitchen Sink and Other Domestic Disturbances<\/em> was born out of a mutual love of art, a deep friendship and the same black humour.<\/p>\n

Just over 13 years ago, these two artists met for coffee and three hours later, they were fast friends. When Anne first met Meggs, it was not only about art – Anne had just bought a painting by Meggs, but she discovered they were both descendents of the same Irish man on their paternal sides.<\/p>\n

Serendipity aside, Anne and Meggs are enthusiastic fans (and collectors) of each others\u2019 works and neither know why they hadn\u2019t created a joint show together sooner. This could simply be a matter of the right time to do so because, as soon as they decided on a duo exhibition, the ideas came tumbling out and haven\u2019t stopped yet.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve taken a look at our domestic world and turned it sideways: Meggs Yeo began with famous & infamous Australian killers; the women she has embroidered onto tea towels but she gives only a hint of who they were and what they did. She follows on with watercolour & pen drawings of some of the better known inhabitants of Pentridge gaol in Victoria \u2013 now a new housing precinct with \u00bd million dollar apartments. Meggs has also created works of showing wool fetish people (people who wear total body suits made of wool) and Pica people \u2013 people who eat non-nutritional substances like rocks, sand and your couch\u2026<\/p>\n

Self-taught artist Anne Bentley<\/a> works with collage, photography and na\u00efve painting. Her seemingly innocuous painting of 3 bottles with striped straws has the title, \u201cJonestown Lemonade<\/em>\u201d, a reference to the Kool Aid killing of 918 members of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project. Another painting, \u201cThe Dangers of Outdoor Yoga<\/em>\u201d includes a lawnmower and blood, lots of blood! Everyone seems happy in her kitchen collages but seen in the window is a nuclear mushroom cloud.<\/p>\n

Strolling through the creative minds of Anne & Meggs may disturb, but it will more likely delight; so, don\u2019t call the men in white coats just yet; these two are the remedy, not the cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Press Release by Anne Bentley Anne Bentley & Meggs Yeo \u2013 cousins alone together for the first time in: Kitchen Sink and Other Domestic Disturbances 7 \u2013 17 May, 2014 Sheffer Gallery 38 Lander Street Darlington, Sydney 2008 (02) 9310 5683 Wednesday – Saturday 11AM \u2013 6PM Opening with a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,521],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-11512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","category-works-on-paper","tag-anne-bentley"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}