Resisting the Feminine Urge
CELLR::DAWE
21st April - 7th May 2022
The Cellar Door collective brings together a group of four emerging Victorian College of the Arts artists based in Melbourne/Naarm. Collectively, Cellar Door comprising of women whose work explore similar and coherent positions.
Lilly Skipper is a conceptual artist whose work contemplates the tangibility versus intangibility of form. Through acts of documentation and recontextualization, her obscure shapes and dematerialisation of the discarded object seek to both reclaim and transform, adhere and disrupt space. Encounters with her ‘anti-forms’ and unresolved images defend perceptions of process-art as the art piece itself, elevating the found and habitually unobserved.
Jasmine Jafari is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work pulls apart archetypal perceptions towards everyday ideas then distorts and beautifies them. Her work forces audiences to reflect on their ideologies. Her works indirectly communicate through kitsch symbols, layered mediums and diverse textures with a function of documenting with diaristic qualities of her life, though it isn’t focused on identity, rather it records the subcultures part of her community.
Olive Hunter is an oil painter and a production designer whose work is united by a complete sense of sombre contemplation. Her subject matter is a vehicle for introspection for both herself and the viewer and she explores masculine and feminine spaces in relation the body. To connect to her figures is to see them as subject rather than object.








