KISS MY ART COLLECTIVE

✨ DONATE ✨ PAY THE RENT  ✨

**Kiss My Art Collective is made entirely of young female students most of whom are also Indigenous and queer. 

We are not currently supported by any grants or funding. So we are left out of pocket from our current exhibition. If you feel you have the means to donate you can do so below. 

Donating to our collective would pay for; 

✨ Professional photographs of our exhibition.

✨ Paying for food for our opening event. 

✨ Paying to get our exhibition publication printed in colour. 

✨ Paying artists involved in the show.

#alwayswasalwayswillbe

KISS MY ART COLLECTIVE was established in 2019 by Gumbaynggirr artist and comedian Aretha Brown. This painting crew (made up of a close-knit group of friends), was made to champion young women and non-binary artists by providing jobs, work experience and a safe creative space on large scale public murals throughout Melbourne and Sydney.  

KISS MY ART has made large scale works for such culturally relevant and important spaces such as Footscray Station, The University of Melbourne, Bad Apples Studios, Collingwood Yards, Mabu Mabu, Flinders Street Station, La Mama Theatre and The Bearded Tit Redfern.

KISS MY ART COLLECTIVE’S goal is to allow young women and femme folk to reclaim public spaces using street art, painting, drawing and mixed media, in an otherwise male-dominated area. The collective acknowledges that making public art is a powerful weapon to actively decolonise and reclaim environments within our settler-colonial and police state. 

Artists within KISS MY ART come from diverse backgrounds, however, the collective is overwhelmingly made up of young female Indigenous artists. Non-Indigenous members of the collective work alongside First Nations women as an active cultural exchange of traditions, histories and storytelling, in order to practice what intersectional feminism is and should be.  

Aretha Brown is proud of the collective she has formed, stating “Each young person that has helped on my works is a talented and gifted artist with their own unique practices, in their own right, so it’s exciting to have a show celebrating the femme folk who help me make my works.”

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The group show opening night is Friday, January 21st @ 6PM - Schoolhouse Studios Coburg. 

Instagram: @_enterthedragon_

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This event takes place on stolen land. We would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri people as the traditional owners of the land we create and live upon. We pay our respects to our own communities and our elders past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded and no treaties have ever been signed. Always Was Always Will Be. 

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This event is wheelchair accessible!