Matrimony
curated by Dr Miriam La Rosa
Walker Street Gallery & Art Centre, Dandenong
24 September - 15 November 2024
In Matrimony, multi-disciplinary artist Josephine Mead explores the meaning of ritual, union and love from a queer and feminist perspective. The exhibition showcases multiple paintings of the artist's bridal bouquet, placed in pews, and installed as “spectators” in the gallery. It also includes a lone sculpture entitled Bridal Veil, which Mead has hand-crafted from thousands of brass wedding rings. Accompanying the works is an original digital sound score by Dandenong-based musicians BJ Morriszonkle and Nero Friktschn Feuerherdt. The sound score mimics an orchestra warming up, evoking a feeling of anticipation akin to wedding preparations.
Matrimony will be accompanied by a suite of public programs, including Writing Workshops About Love for adults at Dandenong Library and Springvale Library; a dinner party “conversation circle” at Walker Street Gallery & Art Centre, and Sacred Unions: Queer Cinema, a night of screenings curated by Sam Kariotis at Walker Street Gallery & Art Centre. Josephine will also facilitate a series of writing workshops on poetry and love with students at Dandenong High School to be published online by Co- Publishing. Click here for public program details.
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Installation view: ‘Matrimony’—a solo exhibition by Josephine Mead at Walker Street Gallery & Art Centre, Dandenong, 2024. Images courtesy of City of Greater Dandenong, Photography by Vivian Nilan.
