Street Fashion Sydney: Art & Breast Awareness

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Art & Breast Awareness - KUDOS & M2 Galleries.

In the interest of avoiding upsetting anyone too much - one hopes, with our first post for 2017 - I will point out very early on that the awareness at the joint show at KUDOS was of a very different nature to the underground comix art type of breast awareness at the group show at M2 gallery. Space 1, KUDOS was (on NOW) Bec Litvan's BEAUTY AND THE BREAST; Painting, Photography, beautiful decorative Mastectomy Bras and a table of pearls as part of the installation. Bec told me the work was born out of the change she saw in her mothers personality after the breast cancer operation, the works are intended to bring back the beauty and a sense of the joys of life, and her mum modelled for the photographs in the show. Beautiful work. Scroll down to continue reading.

Artist Bec Litvan at KUDOS Gallery.

Installation view, Bec Litvan's BEAUTY AND THE BREAST. Photographed by Kent Johnson for Street Fashion Sydney.

Floral mastectomy bras, artworks, Installation view, Bec Litvan's BEAUTY AND THE BREAST. KUDOS Gallery. Photographed by Kent Johnson for Street Fashion Sydney.

COLLUSIVE MISCELLANY by Amy Claire Mills, Bailee Lobb is not about breasts however it is a work performed in the nude so-to-speak, while interacting with the large wind blown fabrics which have themselves been manipulated through tying & heat - even the fans blowing did nothing to diminish the heat of this performance of which there are to be three more iterations; Live performances in space 2 : Saturdays 14, 21 & 28 January, 1-2pm. Check it out!

Legs, green fabric, performance of COLLUSIVE MISCELLANY by Amy Claire Mills, Bailee Lobb. Photographed by Kent Johnson for Street Fashion Sydney.

Gold fabric, woman on plinth, performance of COLLUSIVE MISCELLANY by Amy Claire Mills, Bailee Lobb. Photographed by Kent Johnson for Street Fashion Sydney.

Foetal position, COLLUSIVE MISCELLANY by Amy Claire Mills, Bailee Lobb. Photographed by Kent Johnson for Street Fashion Sydney.

Performance (black and white photo) COLLUSIVE MISCELLANY by Amy Claire Mills, Bailee Lobb. Photographed by Kent Johnson for Street Fashion Sydney.

Billowing green fabric - COLLUSIVE MISCELLANY by Amy Claire Mills, Bailee Lobb. Photographed by Kent Johnson for Street Fashion Sydney.

Gold fabric wraps the performer, COLLUSIVE MISCELLANY by Amy Claire Mills, Bailee Lobb. Photographed by Kent Johnson for Street Fashion Sydney.

Performer appears from beneath the green fabric; COLLUSIVE MISCELLANY by Amy Claire Mills, Bailee Lobb. Photographed by Kent Johnson for Street Fashion Sydney.

Was it a strange coincidence to be at M2 the very next night? GORO a group show of five artists who, as mentioned above are very much in the style of the underground Comix of the 70's & 80's; think Charles Burns, Robert Crumb & H R Giger but with an Aussie-Goth/Surf Culture tie in.. And the breasts? Well of course, Dominatrix style and plenty of them. I must admit I rather enjoyed this show and it was a great and friendly crowd for the lens of Street Fashion Sydney too. GORO on now with, CAL SINO // ZIGENDEMONIC //QUARTZVII // NERDGORE // SAMSON at M2 Gallery, Click Here for more details - on until the 17th of January.