The opening night party of Hazel Dooney’s PORNO exhibition at MARS gallery in Port Melbourne was one of the best attended gallery events I have attended, equalled perhaps only by the opening of Gorker gallery (but that was the opening of the gallery itself and its first exhibition). Hazel’s art / porn proved popular with the art public, as did the music of Deborah Conway and the talk by academic Julianne Schultz.
The colour photos before the exhibition opened.…
Sometimes asking a simple question can have amazing results. I’ve admired artist Hazel Dooney‘s work since first seeing it at a gallery in Perth in 2001 (I learned today that this was her first big interstate exhibition). Since the controversy around the censoring of her work at ArtMelbourne07, we’ve exchanged the occasional email and we read each other’s blog.
When I read about her forthcoming first photography exhibition PORNO at Mars Gallery in Port Melbourne, I wondered if it would be possible to meet her in person and further our conversation.…