Melanie Lazarow Artist

I acknowledge that I live and work on the land of the Warangerie people in Naaarm, on land that was never ceded. Always was and always will be aboriginal land. Who can make images of another world unless a part of them has been shattered by the world we are in. Melanie constructs imaginings of another world possible. Her "No planet B" series cry for the burning earth, for the melting ice, for the dying species. and the unalterable sadness and need to save our planet. For moments I have seen the ripples of other possibilities, strikes challenging injustices of systems of unfair and deadened authority. As a librarian for the years I dreamed in the moments between. To pay the bills, the mortgage, school fees, I worked then I retired to paint.

In the interim, the world changed, there was a rupture where capital took a greedy hold increased it emissions, stumbled into a crisis of Covid, underpaid its nurses, teachers, and its infrastructure. How can art capture that terrible moment of dire need, a need so great and unspeakable, not yet defined, revolutionary?

I work to calm my mind with the tools and shapes that build universes, spheres, triangles, squares rectangles and mostly colour, colur is what I love. The human eye perceives differently from any other being on earth, and each of us have our own perception and interpretation of colour and shape. This is mine. Photos of the night, constructions for a better world, the garden in lockdown, (that. strange universal experience of alienation of all)

Exhibitions

Persistence/Resistance Rubicon Ari February 2018

 

An exhibition with questions about the intersection between art, politics and polemics. I believe that to ask the question you have to be in the process.

The question remains.

Thanks to Patricia Casten for her really thoughtful interpretation of my show below

Please enjoy:

 

Are you comfortable yet?

Exhibition….alternating current art space juxtaposing the comfort of the pillows against the dwmands of protest,

Defying Complacency red gallery 22 Feb – 8th March 2017

I’ve spoken before about the ghosts of my past.  In my last exhibition at red Shattered I said time past in time present, the images of glowing figures caught spectre-like in the bottle, they speak of a past temporarily lost and a new present always being forged. The image is only of this moment, but reaches back and forward. Over and over through history we have had lessons to learn, our lack of learning leads to the shattered deaths of refugees, children lying on beaches, adults, curtailed. My art helps me get over feeling useless and tired. I am no longer certain of the old certainties of “what is to be done” But still I think complaceny must be defied.
Black_lives_matterFIVE IPADSNORTHWESTCORNER_REDGALLERYProtest drape installProtest drPE INSTALLRed Wedge Series Red Gallery

Exhibition as Prize Chin Chin Restaurant and Bar Go Go Bar
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Broadmeadows
Equality
Grand Theft
No McDonalds
Equality now

Entry CCP Photo Salon 2015 -Eureka Tower

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