Author: Fern Smith

Fern Smith owns and manages FernArtz website since 1999. The website includes a family of artists: Joy Hester, Gray Smith, Peregrine Smith and myself. Fern Smith is a contemporary artist with her shop front art studio in Merlynston a small hamlet in Coburg North, Melbourne Australia 3058.
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Hurry last days at Counihan

‘Next of Kin’ relates to the theme PEOPLE – POLITICS – PROTEST as ‘the personal is political’ (Carol Hanisch feminist,1969). This work is a personal journey. The pencil was chosen for Next of Kin as it required an immediate response to a quandary of,’ Will the hospital accept my partner as Next of Kin?’

LGBTQI relationships definition of family differ greatly to John Howard’s “Marriage means the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others’. A salient reminder is Marco Bulmer-Rizzi was denied ‘next of kin’ status in 2016 when his partner was in a coma.

Pencil Drawing by Fern Smith ‘Next of Kin’
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Opening hours for Equal but Not

 

Opening Days and hours for Equal But  Not
DAYS: Saturday 14 to Sunday 22 November 2012
Opening Hours: 1 pm – 5.30 pm
Or by appointment: 0408978747

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Equal But Not

‘Equal But Not’ by artist Fern Smith shines a light on two activists Mannie De Saxe and Kendall Lovett
Opened By: Nick Henderson from Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives Inc
When: 4pm (open 4.30) Sunday 15th October 2017
Where: FernArtz Studio 23a Lorensen Avenue Merlynston North Coburg Melbourne 3058
RSVP: with name to Fern 0408978747 by 14/10/2012

Free
Eventbrite - Equal But Not art exhibition

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Window Shopping 3058 style

The Fringe Festival wakes up Merlynston Shopping Centre with contemporary art installations
A Site-specific art exhibition by eight artists Agnes Whalan, Bridget Griffiths, Cara Best, Fern Smith, Josie Alexandra, Melody Greatorex, Ro Noonan and Trent Crawford and curated by Alisha Abate.

The artworks will festoon the shop windows and spill out onto the sidewalks with contemporary motion and installations arresting the foot traffic along the shopping strip of Merlynston Shopping Centre; where boundaries are blurred between public and private space.

Where: Lorensen Avenue:  FernArtz and Maxine Hair Dressing Merlyn Street: The Cubby Bake House & Deli Cafe, Queen of Paws and Welcome Shop Coburg North 3058
When: 14th September to 1st October 2017
Quote: Curator Alisha Abate:
Out of the white cubed gallery space and into the shopping strip of the Northern suburbs. Eight artists will create site-specifically artwork in Coburg North. Stroll along the strips of Lorensen Ave and Merlyn Street, peering into shop windows to see where boundaries are blurred between public and private space, where the artists reference their own personal and museological histories. The shop front window is an inaccessible space, boarded off to the public, but alludes us to look deeper into, inviting us further inside.
More info:  WEB: http://cargocollective.com/windowshopping SOCIAL MEDIA: FB https://www.facebook.com/events/1403520366400075/?ti=as

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