Sophia wrote on Jan 31^st, 2021 at 12:01pm:


Thanks for the laff.

Sophia wrote on Jan 31^st, 2021 at 12:01pm:



Yes, it has been.

Good to see womens art too

Sophia wrote on Jan 31^st, 2021 at 1:33pm:


Some  - Kaylene, Patricia  - are ludicrous. Jeff Koons without access to the New York market.

'Shaking up' here means outlandish.
The only two of merit, in my view, are the photographers but there is nothing particularly 'female' about their output (I expect they would not want to be seen as 'mere' woman artists..  The website itself is called 'design files', the first two on the list being designers.

I think its a publicity  puff piece. Substitute any other group for 'women' in the title, "7 Women Shaking Up The Australian Art Scene" and you will see.
It's diversity mongering, not about art but victim groups. If they had '7 Artists Shaking Up The Australian Art Scene' they would have gone to great pains to make it as 'diverse' as possible because in art, as elsewhere, 'diversity' is now the only merit. So the 'women' in the title us just the designated diversity group for the piece. You'd never have a piece about '7 men' unless you wanted howls out iutrage and shrieking - yet there are, naturally, 7 men you could select for such a puff piece.

Not to mention that these women are not actually shaking up anything.

issuevoter wrote on Jan 31^st, 2021 at 5:55pm:

It’s just the nature of it from long ago isn’t it?
But changes are happening as more females since them says, are now allowed to drink in hotels, can take on apprentice jobs, can go into parliament etc etc
Like I said, life in the past had been male orientated ....
just the nature of the way things were.

Frank wrote on Jan 31^st, 2021 at 6:22pm:


Thanks Frank, I had just tried to post a painting of that kind