WHITE WEDDING OBSESSION INSTALLATIONS

This exhibition ran in 3 different forms – as War Stories at the Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, as ‘Til Death Do Us Part at Trocedero Art Space, Footscray and sponsored by the Department of Community Services at the Central Goldfields Art Gallery, Maryborough. Collected wedding dresses were paired up with stories of failed marriages. Society conditions women that the white wedding is the highlight of their existence when in fact many marriages end in divorce.

Some writing from Dorcas Maphakela

About the Artist

Janice Gobey

Janice Gobey graduated from the University of Melbourne’s, Victorian College of the Arts with a Masters in Visual Art obtaining a 1st class honours. 

She was selected as one of the artists for the Linden New Art Innovators program as well as curated exhibitions such as The f Word at Ararat Rural Gallery, Fixation at the Town Hall Gallery and the f Generation at George Paton Gallery. 

Gobey was shortlisted for the Kennedy Art Prize, the Wyndham Art Prize, the Sunshine Coast Art Prize as well as the Toyota Community Spirit Sculpture Prize and has participated in numerous international residencies such as the NG Creative Art Residency in Provence, the Leipzig International Artist Programme in Germany, the London Summer Intensive, a joint residency between The Slade and Camden Arts Centre, ; Summer Painting Intensive at the School of Visual Arts, New York; Point B, New York and Takt, Berlin.

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