supported by
Australian Government - Regional Arts Fund
TASMANIA Parks and Wildlife Service
Tasmanian Government
Huon Valley Council
Arts Tasmania
SalonWriting
salon
salon
a program of
intimate & experimental performances, readings, talks
conversations, guided tours & presentations of work
by artists
in informal & unusual settings
Conceived by ruth hadlow and run in collaboration with janelle mendham, salon is a platform which supports the development of experimental and intimate work and ideas. salon provides artists with the opportunity to investigate creative possibilities for presenting ideas, writing or new work to an interested audience. Each presentation or event occurs in a site determined by the presenting artist/s, and relevant to the content. Salon presents in informal and unusual locations, such as kitchens, studios, gardens, sheds, caves, mountain huts, boat sheds, local parks, shearing sheds, city basements, and so on. Anywhere pertinent to the content of the work, intimate, and atmospheric in relation to the presentation/performance of ideas.
SalonWriting
a collaborative publishing project focused on innovative and experimental writing from inside the creative process; writing that reveals how artists experience and reflect on the world and their practice.
Book # 1 re + home + ing by Irene Briant
Book # 2 Dark Cave by Janelle Mendham
Book # 3 Threefold Drievoud by Marinelle Basson
Book # 4 from now to there to elsewhere by Christl Berg
SalonWriting is run by Ruth Hadlow, Marinelle Basson & Morag Porteous in Tasmania, Australia.
salon lyric lecture series
poetic performative events focused on the experimental staging of texts written by local artists.
from now to there to elsewhere by Christl Berg
March 2023
on the beautiful KnockLofty Reserve Hobart, a composed performative reading of selected texts from Christl's SalonWriting book, from now to there to elsewhere.
duets, solo and chorus readings performed by Helen Swain, Jennie Jackson, Marinelle Basson, Ruth Hadlow, Janelle Mendham, Christl Berg
dark cave | sky light by janelle mendham
March 2021
atmospheric
salon presents an extraordinary & event
with Emily Sheppard, Lucy Wilson, Ruth Hadlow, Far South Singers
& Dark Cave Readers
along
a silent procession of audience the spectacular Tahune Airwalk
suspended above
in deep forest wilderness the upper reaches of the sparkling Huon River
surrounded by the multi-voiced performative reading of the Dark Cave
mythopoetic text
interwoven with viola and choir
cello
dark cave by janelle mendham
August 2019
in the cave-like spaces of the Hobart Town Hall underground experience a dimension of Dark Cave...
a choreographed reading of janelle's SalonWriting book performed by Ruth Hadlow Morag Porteous, Vivienne Cutbush and Maddie Parsons.
salon@hobART Book Fair
Sept 21& 22, 2018
Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart.
Representing 18 artists from across Australia, taking 37 different publications and artist books to the hobART Book Fair, run by A Published Event Margaret Woodward & Justy Phillips during The People’s Library.
salon readings
an innovative program of artists performing their own writing
@ The People’s Library Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart.Sept 9, 2018
Viv Cutbush – book #1, Postcards from Rocky Cape
Gay Hawkes – book #113, Memoirs of a Travelling Sheila
Janelle Mendham – book #41, Inner Topographies
@ The People’s Library Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart.Sept 16 2018
Christl Berg – book #39, Studio Notes
Irene Briant – book #97, Thinking Making Being
Marinelle Basson – book #45, Ivory Black
@TopSpace StudioGallery TopSpace StudioGallery, Hobart, May 5 2018
Christl Berg – Here is
David Bluhdorn – Absence and Myth in Ragged Basin
Diane Perndt – Reading Clouds
salon presents
a program of intimate & experimental, readings, talks, conversations, guided tours, presentations, lectures & performances by artists in informal & unusual settings.
# 00 Walk into the Unknown Performative reading of anthology Artist's | Writing
accompanying artist works in the exhibition Drawn into the Unknown
Christl Berg, Ruth Hadlow Janelle Mendham Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny, April 2016
# 0 In-Situ choreographed performative reading, writing & drawing in exhibition Process/ion,
Marinelle Basson, Ruth Hadlow, Janelle Mendham. Moonah Arts Centre, September, 2016
salon # 1 A Walk in Tuscany slide night, performative reading with artist Marinelle Basson February 19, 2017
artist's lounge room, South Hobart
salon # 2 Roughly Blended performative reading with writer Helen Swain April 4, 2017
artist friends lounge room, West Hobart
salon # 3 Memento Mori artist talk presented through word and image with Lauren Black April 9, 2017
TopSpace StudioGallery, Hobart
salon # 4 Wrong Making and Divergent Handicraft with artist Mae Finlayson June 22, 2017
Inveresk Precinct, UTAS, Launceston
salon # 5 gather visual unpacking with Gwen Egg August 8, 2017
Okines Community House, Dodges Ferry
salon # 6 Flirting presentation by writer | performer Suzy Cooper August 19, 2017
upstairs Republic Bar, Hobart
salon # 7 Dark Cave participant performance with Janelle Mendham August 25, 2017
Newdegate Cave, Hastings - southern forests Tasmania
salon # 8 Slipping out with artist Jan Dineen September, 2017
artist's studio, Mount Nelson
salon # 9 Mother Wouldn’t Like It performative reading with writer Helen Swain December 8, 2017
artist's lounge room, Ferntree
salon # 10 Dark Cave Duet performance movement experiment with artist Wendy Morrow February, 2018
Newdegate Cave, Hastings - southern forests Tasmania
salon # 11 Other than Orthodox – Poem 124 by Emily Dickinson with artist Jane Slade March 6, 2018
TopSpace StudioGallery, Hobart
salon # 12 Destiny in-situ sculptural performance, installation and artist reading with Gay Hawkes
March 18, 2018 artist's home & studio, Marion Bay
salon # 13 The Limits of Knowing and the Limits of Language presentation by writer, Jennie Jackson
May 6, 2018 Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Customs House, Royal Society Room, Hobart