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Walkaway
Dorothy Lipmann
Walkaway
19 – 30 November 2024
hours:
Tuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm
Saturdays: 12pm – 4pm
admission: Free
Walkaway is a small town in Western Australia but for artist Dorothy Lipmann the word “Walkaway” refers to an attitude in our society of not acknowledging destitute women.
Lipmann’s art is abstract in handling yet realist in subject.
Lipmann’s artworks speak to the situations that elderly homeless women lived in before coming to care organisations such as Wintringham. Wintringham delivers a wide range of services to aged people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
Dorothy Lipmann’s art focuses on elderly women who make up half of Wintringham’s clients. Most of these women have been through some kind of trauma in their life. For many their stability is very fragile, leading to isolation, uncertainty, division and stigma. But with support they no longer feel so powerless and refuse to become victims. The artist wants to make poverty visible and for people to consider what it must be like to be an elderly woman and homeless.
Dorothy Lipmann is a Melbourne based artist
Training
1967-69 – Fine Arts (Painting) – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1970 – Fellowship Year – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Melbourne University
Exhibitions
1987 – Pinacotheca Gallery, Waltham Place, Richmond – solo show
1989 – Pinacotheca Gallery, Waltham Place, Richmond – solo show
1992 – Pinacotheca Gallery, Waltham Place, Richmond – solo show
1994 – Pinacotheca Gallery, Waltham Place, Richmond – group show
1995 – Pinacotheca Gallery, Waltham Place, Richmond – solo show
1997 – Pinacotheca Gallery, Waltham Place, Richmond – solo show
1997 – Pinacotheca Gallery, Waltham Place, Richmond – group show
1999 – Pinacotheca Gallery, Waltham Place, Richmond – solo show
2001 – Polly Courtin Gallery, Swanston Street, Melbourne – solo show
2004 – 4 Cats Gallery, Johnston St, Collingwood – solo show
2005 – 4 Cats Gallery, Johnston St, Collingwood – solo show
2008 – Collingwood Gallery, Smith St, Collingwood – group show
2008 – Collingwood Gallery, Smith St, Collingwood – solo show
2011 – Collingwood Gallery, Smith St, Collingwood – solo show
2012 – Collingwood Gallery, Smith St, Collingwood – solo show
2013 – Collingwood Gallery, Smith St, Collingwood – solo show
2014 – Summer Salon – Collingwood Gallery – group show
2014 – Leave the Animals Alone – Collingwood Gallery – group show
2014 – Collingwood Gallery, Smith St, Collingwood – solo show
2016 – Collingwood Gallery, Smith St, Collingwood – solo show
2017 – Collingwood Gallery, Smith St, Collingwood – solo show
2020 – Tanami Desert – drawings
2021 – 45 Downstairs, Flinders Lane – group show on line
2022 – 45 Downstairs, Flinders Lane – solo show
2024 – 45 Downstairs, Flinders Lane – solo show
Acquired By
Museum of Modern Art, Brisbane
Yarra City Council, 2013
More details coming soon…