Saturday, 21st, June 2025: GIRL MASTERS: Van Badham & Lauren McCartney
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Saturday Magazine’s own podcaster ventured out into the city last week and interview Joy and Saturday Magazine regular Journalist and Artist Van Badham.
Girl Masters: Badham/McCartney is a bold, intergenerational conversation between feminist artists Lauren McCartney and Van Badham that interrogates “mastery” as a gendered concept.
This dual exhibition confronts the tension between the public and private realms of feminist expression, with the artists exploring how time, shared history, and personal evolution shape their practices. McCartney, celebrated for her satirical critiques of male art-world paradigms, presents intimate, delicate watercolour renderings of traditionally masculine grids, while Badham – once McCartney’s teacher and now mentored by her former student – returns to visual art through theatrical digital compositions and found objects.
Together, they stage a subversive, multi-voiced inquiry into who gets to be a “master”-and where, how, and under what conditions “girls” can assert mastery at all.
Dr Lauren McCartney (painting/performance/video artist and misbehaviour specialist), Van Badham (digital provocateur and internet folk villain)
Monday, June 9, 2025–
Thursday, June 26, 2025–
The Queen Victoria Women’s Centre is situated on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and we pay our respect to Elders past and present.
The Queen Victoria Women’s Trust receives funding from the State of Victoria through the Victorian Office For Women.
*When we say ‘women’ it always includes trans and gender diverse women and sistergirls
Additional Photos by James WF Roberts
Photo by James WF Roberts
Photo by James WF Roberts
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