A VISUAL feast is being served up at the Bendigo Art Gallery, with the latest exhibition bringing together the multidisciplinary works of sixteen female artists from across Australia and abroad.<\/p>\n
SOUL fury <\/em>explores the complex and diverse lived experiences of women throughout the world through paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, installations, and textiles.<\/p>\n Bendigo Art Gallery curator Clare Needham worked in collaboration with guest curator Nur Shkembi for over two years to source some 40 works on display from artists\u2019 studios and other private and public collections.<\/p>\n \u201cIt really is about not flattening that experience into one homogenised thing, it\u2019s actually about making it complex because there is complexity in the world and we are all different beings and experiencing the world in different ways,\u201d Ms Needham said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s all about bringing new, diverse, personal perspectives to the fore and having that all layered together in an exhibition is a really inspiring and engaging experience.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of hope in the exhibition too though. A lot of the artists are creating a space for thinking about a new future or a different way of being, pushing out from some of the more restrictive, dominant histories or ways of working.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s where the feminist philosophy comes in of thinking about ideas of care and connectedness and the female voice being present in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n