EXHIBITIONS

Exhibition by craftivist Tal Fitzpatrick

Presented by Her Place Women's Museum in partnership with MoAD at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre.

Celebrate activists and their allies who have championed justice and equality this Women's History Month!

In celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, Her Place Women’s Museum, in partnership with the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House (MoAD), warmly invites you to Changemakers: Crafting a Difference at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre.

Changemakers is an exhibition and workshop that invites you to try your hand at craftivism. Craftivists celebrate and subvert cliched notions of needlecraft and other 'women's work' to bring attention to a range of social justice issues.

About Changemakers

Changemakers: Crafting a Difference features eight textile banners created by craftivist Tal Fitzpatrick. Her designs draw upon visual protest traditions, such as women's suffrage campaign banners. Like their forerunners, Tal's banners make visible the challenges women face, including violence and inequality. Initiatives for economic empowerment can serve to help reduce or prevent violence against women.

Changemakers: Crafting a Difference is a travelling exhibition from the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, sponsored by Commonwealth Bank as part of CommBank Next Chapter, a program helping victim-survivors of financial abuse achieve long-term financial independence.

Changemakers is proudly supported by CommBank Next Chapter, a program helping victim-survivors of domestic violence and financial abuse to achieve long-term financial independence.

Exhibition Details

Dates: 3 March – 18 April
Opening Hours: Monday – Friday, 9 AM – 5 PM
Location: Queen Victoria Women's Centre, 210 Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Tal Fitzpatrick Artist Talk and Banner Making Workshop

Come join us to share ideas, build community, and create a banner about your own vision for change.

When:

Friday, 7 February
Saturday, 1 March

Artist Talk: 12 – 12:45 PM
Afternoon Tea: 1 PM
Banner Workshop: 2 – 4:30 PM

Where: Queen Victoria Women's Centre, 210 Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000

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The Lost Petition returns was a powerful and profoundly moving multi-media exhibition, focused on the vital need to end violence against women and children.

Created by artist and activist Dans Bain, in collaboration with Sherele Moody of the Red Heart Campaign, at the centre of this arresting exhibition was The Lost Petition Artwork – a 30-metre list of names lost to gendered violence since 2008, written on bedsheets.

The exhibition also featured a peaceful reflective installation called The Living Room; photos and stories of women and children lost to violence and the voices of their families; a special red heart tribute to the 75 lives lost this year; and interactive elements for visitors to engage with

EMILY’s List Australia and Her Place partnered to create HERSTORY: Celebrating 25 years of EMILY’s List Australia

This exhibition told the story of a ‘for women by women’ network that provides political, financial, and personal support to progressive Labor women candidates and politicians in Australia. It celebrated how positive change can be created when women take action. A history of how positive change can be created by women taking action.

Learn about affirmative action, the decriminalisation of abortion, and the many ‘firsts’ for women, including the election of First Nations women, state and territory leaders, and the first woman to be Prime Minister, the Hon Julia Gillard AC.

EMILY stands for Early Money is Like Yeast – it makes the dough rise!

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Unmasked

Unmasked pays tribute to the nurses and midwives of Australia with a particular focus on Victoria, acknowledging the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife in 2020. Drawing on 230 years of history, and set against a backdrop of social and political change, the exhibition highlights the multiple and diverse roles of nurses and midwives: in civilian and military life, in peacekeeping spheres, practice, politics, business, activism and advocacy.

Twelve practitioners feature as past and present exemplars of their profession. Through these individuals’ demonstration of tenacity and ingenuity, Unmasked celebrates the immeasurable and collective contribution of nurses and midwives to Australian health care.

Unmasked is presented by Her Place Women’s Museum Australia in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services and Safer Care Victoria and supported by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation.

This exhibition is made possible with funding from the Victorian Government.

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STEMPowered

Women have been creators, innovators and pioneers in STEM for thousands of years. From Indigenous knowledge systems, to nanotechnology and the sequencing of the koala genome, women have been central to STEM in Australia. However, their contributions are not widely known.

STEMpowered was a new initiative that aims to remedy the silence. Developed by Her Place Women’s Museum Australia, in collaboration with the Department of Education and Training and supported by the Royal Society of Victoria, the exhibition tells the stories of 9 inspiring women whose work showcases a diversity of careers, approaches, ideas and fields across games development, wearable technology, environmental science, engineering, cancer research, food waste, genetics, biotech, nanotechnology, mathematics and more.

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EXHIBITIONS

Changemakers: Crafting a Difference

Exhibition by craftivist Tal Fitzpatrick

Celebrate activists and their allies who have championed justice and equality this Women's History Month!

About Changemakers

Exhibition Details

Tal Fitzpatrick Artist Talk and Banner Making Workshop

THE LOST PETITION RETURNS

HERSTORY: Celebrating 25 Years of Emily's List Australia

ONCE WOMEN WON THE VOTE