Title

Happily Ever After: Alternative Destinies in contemporary feminine narrative.

Venues

Artspace Mackay. (29 July 2011 – 28 October 2011)

Date

(2011)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (QLD).

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Happily Ever After was conceived as an interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, writers and craftspeople invited to work together to create handmade books which explore female narratives within the fairytale genre. While the classic fairytale ending ‘happily ever after’ envisages a single, finite destiny, the contemporary feminine experience encompasses a multiplicity of roles, expectations, endings, beginnings and relationships. Thus the exhibition theme is probably best conceptualised as a celebration of diversity within destiny, with the fairytale genre used as the narrative vehicle to explore this idea. [Artspace Mackay media].