Thank-you

As the end of 'Dreaming Hazel Dooney' nears Latrobe contemporary gallery would like to thank some of the people that made this possible.

Hazel Dooney- Tank-you for your commitment to this project and your commitment to the students and the artists of Gippsland, your presents and apartment of knowledge is greatly appreciated .

Yallourn Gipps Tafe management: Peter Whittly CEO and coordinator of visual arts department Mary Walker.

and special thanks to Peter Biram my former teacher whose commitment to the gallery has been unfailing.

Not to mention Michael Starkey and Stu Shaw Latrobe Contemporary Gallery technicians and finally the artists who contributed to 'Dreaming Hazel Dooney'

Thank you.

Steph Shields- Director of Latrobe Contemporary Gallery.

Contributing artist Oliver Searl, Gallery director Steph Shields and subject of the show Hazel Dooney.

Media

This is a video that was aired on WIN news in Gippsland. 

Wendy Olsen

Image 1: Do it your self.

Image 2: Pick me

Fredrika Van Der Mew

I find myself refreshing 


refreshing my emails daily


to see if you will love me today


and when you don't


i shrink a little inside

Karo Akpokiere

Karo Alkpokiere

Anna Reynolds

ANNA REYNOLDS

Hazel, edition of 10

60 x 60 cm

giclee print on Hahnemuhle photo rag

STATEMENT:

In the late 80’s under the crotch of the Skipping Girl vinegar neon I worked as a barmaid in a pub painted blood red. The Terminus was notorious for urban grungy chaotic cool, rockabilly bands, sly bottle shop and topless lunchtime barmaids.  Bleached hair, black clad and nose ring I worked alongside my bare breasted sisters: I couldn’t do it; didn’t have the confidence or the tits for it! Late one afternoon I swung around to see my comrade standing up on the bar spitting dollar coins from her vagina into a truck drivers beer.  Hazel’s gutsy art practice and in your face online presence occasionally makes me relive this moment.

www.artistannareynolds.com

Lisa Byrne

Artist Lisa Byrne grew up in Santa Clara California, and is a former Marine Animal Trainer, SCUBA diver, and exotic dancer. Since 1995 She has devoted herself to the craft of photography and her art modeling career. For the past 2 years she has been blogging about the Female Form, Working in the Nude & Living with an invisible illness called Chronic Fatigue on her blog, www.soartmodel.com. She currently lives in Southern Oregon with her long time partner, and Moose, their pug.

Day Harris

Day Harris

Title: What’s a Slut?, 2011

Media: Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions:  8x8 inches

This painting is one of a series in response to a psychosocial dynamic girls experience in our culture. Our bodies are viewed as objects and, sadly, we buy into this twisted idea.

           

Hazel Dooney draws a line in the sand and I am happy to step over to her side, to be a member of a group of people who believe that it’s important to express what it means to be a woman in this society. She investigates the complexities of our sexual nature and causes us all to question and reflect.

Most of my artwork stands alone as visual expression and is not as personal as the Slut series, but I felt that the themes warranted the additional impact of the written word. By making my private story public, I hope to expose hypocrisy and empower those who agree or have had similar experiences.

About the artist
Day Harris is an art teacher in the US, a mother, a wife, and an artist. She has been very

busy helping to run a non-profit community center and work full-time. She has shown in a

 variety of local group shows over the past ten years, but this is her first international venture.

 Day is very excited to be part of the Hazel Dooney Dream!

Laurence Guenoun

Laurence Guenoun

The title of the work

1 – La gaine

2 – La bunny

3 – Le masque

4 – Les boots

Basic information about the work, including its date of creation and media used

La gaine, La bunny and Le mask has been shot with natural light. One flash was used for Les boots to increase the white of the skin and the “aggressive” attitude.

Each images has been treated on Aperture respecting the light and the mood.

La gaine has been shot in august 2011

La bunny has been shot in august 2010

Le masque has been shot in april 2008

Les boots has been shot in january 2010

All with a Canon digital camera 5D MII and 1Ds MIII

Those diptyque are part of a serie I’m slowly bulding about feminity, show and hide, sens of modesty, sexuality, erotism, each one are nude with an element of clothe or something to hide herself. Different expressions of what a dressed nude could be.

www.laurenceguenoun.me

Emma kirsopp 'Dreaming Hazel Dooney'

Lisa Penz

Lisa Penz

The influence of captivating heroines has always impacted my life. As a child I would sit in front of the television, and reproduce alluring images of my favourite Disney characters in order to perpetually experience resplendency. This fascination with a beautiful feminine presence has never left me.

My female portraits elicit a kaleidoscopic emotional response, encouraging the viewer to look beyond the surface beauty for a new-found appreciation. Spontaneity plays an essential role in my work as I am guided by instinct so that I capture the essence of the message on an emotional level. Onlookers are drawn in by compelling expressions and lustrous veils of colour, as I endeavor to transcend preconceived ideologies of beauty and invite the viewer to realize a deeper meaning.

Description of the work

The painting "Dreaming Dooney Hazel" visually explores various personas of Hazel Dooney through intricate details and soft layered textures to represent the "dark and light" of the artist herself. The persona that Hazel represents online is so multi-layered... my interpretation tries to capture that depth.

At the core of it all - this piece was created to express the heart of theartist from an outsider’s perspective. It is my empathetic interpretation.

There are some other hidden meanings in the work. I encourage the audience to look further. http://www.lisapenz.com/

Mike Wood

Mike Wood is a 44 yr old artistic photographer living in London, Ontario, Canada.

Self taught and influenced by the varied likes of  Edward Weston, Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton, he opts for sourcing unique settings to shoot fashion portraiture and artistic nudes, and frequently uses local models with non-mainstream looks in his work.

Title: Amy, Untitled, #3
Created: August 2009
Medium: black and white digital photograph

When I was approached by Hazel to be part of the group show, I wanted to find an image that would embody elements of how she is perceived by the public generally, and by those who follow her work more closely online.

I felt that the nude - and occasionally erotic - strong female form evident in Hazel’s work, her go it alone against the art world attitude, immersion in her art, and occasional admitted personal vulnerability, combined as elements in this image of my model: A woman alone in an empty room. Nude and exposed on a bare floor. Curled in a fetal position and covered in her ink. But perhaps also peacefully asleep on a blank canvas and dreaming of her next major piece.

Mike can be contacted via email at work4bandwidth@gmail.com, and information on his various online presences can be found at http://about.me/mike.wood

Sacha Lamont

SACHA LAMONT ARTIST STATEMENT:


"Art should be made illegal. Art should be criminalized, outlawed.
Punishable by death even. There would be no art schools, just
strenuous, painful initiation rituals. No museums and galleries, only
clandestine, impermanent gatherings on make-shift locations that
dissolve instantly after revelers have left, dizzy and inebriated on
art, carrying the dark secret in the recesses of their mind.


Reverting to the original source of magic and ritual - no longer
producers of upmarket commodities, art makers would assume their
rightful place of shamans, bushrangers robbing the world of coveted
unessential pretense, unveiling the Reality to the unflinching and
intrepid. In a world that wallows in Unreality, smug complacency and
rampant consumerism, Hazel Dooney walks as a High Priestess of
Reality, one true warier."
http://sachalamont.blogspot.com/

Konii C Burns

Name: Konii C Burns

Digital photo, unretouched from mobile phone. 2010.

I came across this bike as I wandering the streets of Melbourne. Walking for hours, as my mother was attended to in ICU. My mother died on Boxing Day 2010.

At this time I was without a home or studio. Everything I owned jammed into my van. My mobile phone was the only available source of which to catch this piece of inspiration. Having to face the death of a parent is something you can never prepare for. Through Hazel’s blog, I felt a common thread. Hazel was also experiencing this at the time with her father battling cancer.

On the day I found this bike I read her blog “no 1 daughter.”

Hazel’s father had given her dog tags with this engraved.  Reading that particular blog entry I wept whole heartedly, for Hazel and for myself.

As I walked, this bike, without tyres, strapped to a post, stopped me in my tracks and screamed Hazel to me.    I thought of a little girl riding her bike, perhaps Hazel’s father was the one to teach her. For many reasons this bike stopped me. Predominately being the colour. No less than Dooney pink.

www.koniicburns.com  

Scott Malcho Hull

Name: Scott Malcho Hull

Profession: Mariner

Career: Artist

I’ve sailed from the Arctic Circle to the Caribbean and back again, docking at a few places along the way. Ridden a fence or two. Viewed life from the saddle of a long series of much loved motorcycles. All of which has enriched my life and my art.

For the past 24 years, I have been honoured to be an officer, chief engineer, in the united states merchant marine, and spent nearly 30 years I Alaska on the Bering sea in various commercial vessels. I’ve been making art longer than that.

I like to use mixed media with strong emphasis on texture. I am also interested in photography as art especially water related scenes.

While recovering from an injury at sea, I was able to attend and graduate from the graphic design program at Seattle central community college in 1999. I currently live, work, and create art on the shores of Lake Michigan and beautiful Lake Wawasee, in northern Indiana. The Alaska state flag from the dock.

Tilt: Art is war in blue.

Jason McDonald

Name: Jason McDonald

Name of work: Halcyone Days (photograph courtesy of Lindsay Terry)

Media used: Mixed (acrylic, India ink and other pigments on paper, textiles and canvas).

Description: In Greek mythology, “Halcyone Days” refers to the tragic heroin Alcyone. Ceyx, Alcyone’s lover, is murdered by Zeus after the couple unwittingly offend the god. Overcome by fear and anguish Alcyone then meets with her own tragic demise by flinging herself into the sea to perish. As a result, the other gods take pity on the pair and transform them into Halcyone birds, traditionally known as the kingfisher. Every year following the transformation, Alcyones' father, Aeolus, god of the winds holds back wind and waves for seven days so that she may lay her eggs upon a floating nest to rear her young. These seven days became known as Halcyone days.

Contemporary use of the phrase ”Halcyone Days” means to fondly remember a period considered peaceful and idyllic.

In modern times, the drug Halcyon is a sedative prescribed in cases of severe insomnia.

                   
http://evilchimpo.com 

Jennifer Mathis

Name: Jennifer Mathis

Title: I wonder if I’d be happier

Creation dates: December 2010 to January 2011

Media: Pencil sketches, adobe Photoshop, and windows live movie maker.

This video is based upon Hazel Dooney’s blog post “a Point of No Return”. In which she considers a life where she quits painting, deciding instead to work a “nine-to-five McJob”.

As her writings move from speculation about life with a normal job, to remembrance of the time she had that sort of job, the on screen Hazel transitions. Beginning as a realistically rendered pencil drawing with shading and texture, she transforms to a single line ink drawing, finally becoming a version of herself rendered in a style similar to her iconic enamel paintings.

This Hazel stripped of detail, flattened and encapsulated in the world of the nine to fiver, and is how I imagined her if she had quit art: a vibrant, colourful individual, surrounded by a greyed out world who would eventually succumb to the draining of all colour herself.

Gabrielle Christopher

Artists Name: Gabrielle Christopher

Title of work: Hazel, the brave: The ‘art of the matter.

Date: January 2011

Media: Acrylic on canvas

Hazel, the brave: The ‘art of the matter is a representation of the “hunter and hunted” suggesting at once both power and vulnerability. To be seen in the light of the truth requires the softness of vulnerability and the strength of courage. Hazel Dooney, Brave warrior, offers herself up for public consumption; heart and soul. Rather than “suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”. Dooneys' quiver contains paint brushes. Her weapons of choice, masterfully wielded for good instead of evil with skill and precision, she finds her target. You’ll notice she’s wearing feathers and has claimed a scalp or two. The background colour is not quite Dooney pink; however, I picked up this colour at Wal-Mart last time I was in the states. It’s an acrylic by apple barrel called “diva pink” if you can believe it.

©NOK &T/ART

Name: ©NOK &T/ART

HAZEL DOONEY strong individualistic challenging attention stimulating vigorous brave cool hidden exhibitionistic sharp serious innocent hard-core quality art confrontational naughty immodest feminine sexual island quest murky interrogation identity perception solitary personality disorder expressive persistent bipolar impotence relationship sardonic content sensitive complex black mood reality unpredictable white scars intelligent sanity brave proud fragile genius unruly emotional dissection DREAMING HAZEL DOONEY parallelism video BEHIND CLOSED DOORS breaking silence facing colourful scars walking through past  ©NOK &T/ART.

http://www.fthegallery.com/intro 

Phoinix

Name: Phoinix

Title: Icon

Medium: Acrylic paint on primed and cradled Masonite board

Completed in December 2010

This painting borrows the visual format of a religious icon to illustrate my view of Hazel’s iconic status as an artist, her forceful independent personality and total intolerance for fools. All traits which are clearly visible in Hazels uniquely open online persona. The composition is grounded in part by symbols for a poem Hazel has tattooed on her body. ”In front is a precipice, behind are wolves. She flies with her own wings.” The middle finger in place of a blessing and paint brush instead of a fig leaf, round out the paintings symbolic imagery.

Artists, even unknown ones, put a great deal of ourselves into the world to be viewed, commented on and sometimes even collected but the public performance of art no matter how open will never present a holy accurate view of the artist. It may not be a totally accurate interpretation, but in hazels case, it is definitely interesting.

Ryan McCoy:

Name: Ryan McCoy


In Making these images, I attempted to simply reflect on what i have learned about Hazel Dooney through her countless online posts, which I have followed for years and which have influenced me tremendously as an artist. I realized that my perceptions of Hazel where based entirely on what she revealed online, and that all I really have is an impression, or more specifically, an impression that is made up of hundreds of little impressions. In reflecting, I was stuck by the spectrum of imprints in my mind of Hazel, from her obvious strength and will to unbelievable vulnerability and sadness. From her stability and resilience, to her candid and unapologetic exploration of herself, her thoughts and her feelings. There is an undeniable honesty and conviction behind her transmitted persona and it seams with Hazel, we get the good the bad and the ugly, but it is in that honesty and conviction with which she approaches her work and transmittion where cumulatively, it all becoms beautiful and compelling.


I did these images with watercolour, lead pencil and ink on coldpress paper, materials that are very much apart of Hazel's visial language.

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Oliver Searle

Artists Name: Oliver Searle


My dream of being a professional Fashion photographer Illustrator/Artist inspires my artwork.
The first memories I have of drawing evolve around human figures and fashion. I work with various mediums including water colour, oil pastels. pencil and acrylic. I hope people can connect and be inspired by  my art work, that they can draw their own interpretations from my works.


Title: Oooops!


Medium: Ink, Water colour and acrylic on paper.


Created: January 2011


This is Ollie's first artwork for 'Dreaming Hazel Dooney'. After doing research and learning about Hazel, Ollie obtained Permission to use photographs from her blog as a reference point. He feels that there is a sexuality that comes through in her blog and photographs that she confidently expresses. Within that context, Ollie feels that this picture 'Oooops! I did it' is unusual and not as direct. The hand covers the mouth and the eyes are squinting so Ollie decided to avoid some of the detail, choosing instead a soft focus.
At  the Beginning of a journey Ollie explores how he did not really know Hazel, and wonders "do we ever actually know some one fully?"








Title: 'The Softer Side'




Medium: Water colours and pencil on paper.




Created: January 2011


This the third work From Ollie, was inspired by a picture of Hazel Dooney on the front of the magazine 'Obvious' The picture shows Hazels facial structure in more detail than the other peice's created.


Ollie Says, "There was a sence of truth in the picture but also a sence of concealment. I like the idea because I still feel like I dont really know her. I dont think you can really know someone untill you meet them and even then? However i do feel more of a softness from Hazel the more i read her blog, especially when she was writing about her father."


One again Ollie leverages the colour purple but this time in more a soft delicate way in contrast to her strong profile.

     Oooops!

The softer side

http://www.ollie-ink.com/ 

Riiko Sakkinen

Artists Name: Riiko Sakkinen

<> <> <> <> <> <> REFRESHING MOLOTOV COCKTAILS I make art out of everyday life, including special offers and car bombs, exotic cocktails and Molotov cocktails, cleaning the house and ethnic cleansing, fast food and Blitzkrieg. I find my materials in the TV news (demonstration banners demanding more freedom), flyers put under windscreen wipers (earn money without a job), advertisements in newspapers (blow job without a condom), and breakfast cereal boxes (chocolate super hero eats his children). I do drawings, but cannot draw. I do paintings, but cannot paint. I do other things, too, but cannot do that either. It is a tragedy, but tragedies are appreciated in Arts. I always disagree. I am always wrong. Title: My Favorite Hazels. 2011. 29,7 x 21cm. Ink on paper. Hazel Dooney is a character that exists in an online narrative.  My work lists in the style of a Wikipedia disambiguation page  real and fictional people with the name Hazel. The source used is an online encyclopedia, the list is created on the screen of my  computer and the work was sent via e-mail to the gallery where  it has been printed out. I've never touched it or seen it. It is as real as the heroin of this narrative.

Lisa Klow

Artist Name:   Lisa Klow

The female face, figure, and sex parts are images I use to describe my identity and experience as a woman. Something soft and pretty can also shock or surprise, and I think that’s fun. It speaks to Western society’s reluctance to talk about certain things female, or even use proper terms. I call her a Velvet Pussy because it’s cute, but she is a Velvet Vagina. And she’s anatomically correct. Drawing faces has become my obsession. The face conveys emotion, but what it expresses is open to personal interpretation. I wish to show the things that in my experience of life have not been allowed or acceptable to be shown or discussed, be they female nudity, sexual issues, or the pussy. (Vagina.)

Title:                The Velvet Pussy and the Pink Panties

Created Jan-Mar 2011. Media:  canvas, paper, acrylic paint, graphite pencil, colored pencil, fabric, ribbon, thread, beads, found objects.

The ideas in this piece mesh my own images of expressive faces, small drawings of figures and female imagery with Hazel’s obsession with pink panties and also her graphic sexual imagery. I did not have an idea for this show until Hazel posted an update on Facebook encouraging submission, saying it could be any media, including fashion. I immediately thought of her blog posts about pink panties; that gave me the inspiration to make a pair of pink panties. Using my own underwear as a pattern, I cut them out of raw canvas and sewed them together. After finally reading the Vagina Monologues last fall, I had been thinking about how to construct a vagina out of velvet scraps. When I conceived the Pink Panties, I knew they were the perfect vessel for the Velvet Pussy. The piece has been decorated with items from my jewelry collection.

 

Dreaming Hazel Dooney Exhibition

Dreaming Hazel Dooney: The Artist In Public, The Artist As Muse.

Latrobe Contemporary Gallery is pleased to announce that it will be holding group exhibition inspired by the online persona of controversial Australian artist and feminist provocateur, Hazel Dooney.

'Dreaming Hazel Dooney'  will run at artist run space Latrobe Contemporary Gallery at 209 Commercial rd Morwell Vic Australia 3840.

The opening will be 6.30 on Saturday the 10th of September and run for 2 weeks.

Stay possted for contributing Artists.

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