salon

 

 

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Conceived by artist  Ruth Hadlow & set up and run in collaboration with Janelle Mendham, salon's intimate and innovative program provides artists with the opportunity to explore and experiment with creative presentations of ideas, writing and new work.

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salon presents an extraordinary &                event

 

DARK CAVE I SKY LIGHT

 

by Janelle Mendham

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

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                                interwoven with viola      and choir

                                              cello        

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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.  

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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

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SalonWriting is run by Ruth Hadlow, Marinelle Basson & Morag Porteous in Tasmania, Australia.

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salon presents

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a program of intimate & experimental, readings, talks, conversations, guided tours, presentations, lectures & performances by artists in informal & unusual settings.

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 # 00                     Walk into the Unknown   choreographed reading, writing & drawing in exhibition Drawn into the Unknown + text from                                    the anthology Artist's | Writing  Christl Berg, Ruth Hadlow, Janelle Mendham. ,  SchoolHouse Gallery, Rosny, April, 2016

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# 0                      In-Situ  choreographed performative reading, writing & drawing in exhibition Pro/cession,  Marinelle Basson,  Ruth    

                            Hadlow, Janelle Mendham. Moonah Arts Centre, Moonah, September, 2016

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salon # 1             A Walk in Tuscany   slide night, performative reading with artist   Marinelle Basson  February 19, 2017 

                             artist's lounge room, South Hobart

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salon # 2             Roughly Blended   performative reading with writer   Helen Swain   April 4, 2017

                            artist friends lounge room, West Hobart

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salon # 3             Memento Mori   artist talk presented through word and image with   Lauren Black   April 9, 2017

                            TopSpace StudioGallery, Hobart

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salon # 4             Wrong Making and Divergent Handicraft   with artist   Mae Finlayson   June 22, 2017 

                            Inveresk Precinct, UTAS, Launceston

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salon # 5             gather   visual unpacking with   Gwen Egg   August 8, 2017 

                            Okines Community House, Dodges Ferry

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salon # 6             Flirting   presentation by writer | performer   Suzy Cooper  August 19, 2017

                            upstairs Republic Bar, Hobart 

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salon # 7             Dark Cave   participant performance with   Janelle Mendham   August 25, 2017   

                            Newdegate Cave,  Hastings - southern forests Tasmania

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salon # 8             Slipping out   with artist   Jan Dineen   September, 2017 

                            artist's studio, Mount Nelson

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salon # 9             Mother Wouldn’t Like It   performative reading with writer   Helen Swain   December 8, 2017 

                            artist's lounge room, Ferntree

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salon # 10           Dark Cave Duet   performance movement experiment with artist   Wendy Morrow   February, 2018

                            Newdegate Cave,  Hastings - southern forests Tasmania

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salon # 11           Other than Orthodox – Poem 124  by Emily Dickinson   with artist   Jane Slade   March 6, 2018

                            TopSpace StudioGallery,  Hobart 

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salon # 12           Destiny   in-situ sculptural performance, installation and artist reading with  Gay Hawkes   March 18, 2018  

                            artist's home & studio, Marion Bay

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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

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salon readings  

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an innovative program of artists performing their own writing

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salon readings # 1                                                   TopSpace StudioGallery, Hobart, May 5 2018

                                                                                                           Christl Berg – Here is 

                                                                                                           David Bluhdorn – Absence and Myth in Ragged Basin 

                                                                                                           Diane Perndt – Reading Clouds​

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salon readings @ 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​

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salon readings @ 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

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salon@hobART Book Fair   

 

 

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. Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart. Sept 21& 22, 2018.​

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