This was one of those heartwarming nights.

Last Saturday night, at Paddington’s resplendent Juniper Hall people within the art collectors and figures from the arts community gathered  for a fundraising arts exhibition for  Lou’s Place, an inner city, privately funded,  refuge for women who are the victims of domestic violence and coercive control.

The exhibition is a co-production between Kim Chandler MacDonald, the award winning author and CEO/Co-Founder of software firm FlatWorld Integration Pty Ltd and legendary Australian artist Wendy Sharpe who has.been a winner of both the Archibald and Sulman prizes.

The exhibition comprises Wendy’s drawings of 52  pairs of different shoes with each work representing a woman who is killed through domestic violence each year in Australia. Each work is a signed  colourpastel drawing. Each work is valued at $1,900.

On the night an auction was held with the auctioneer being none other than the wise cracking Jonathon Biggins. Only a few of the  drawings were chosen as auction items, with the selection also including  a painting Sharpe drew of Lou’s House. All auctioned items were sold. One of the prizes was to get a tour of Wendy’s studio and receive a drawing from the legendary artist.

All money collected from the exhibition goes directly to Lou’s place and will pay for women in need of safe accommodation, hundreds of home cooked and nutritious meals, access to pharmaceutical support and medical care, fund domestic violence education programs and emergency support for women who need to travel,

Details : 

HER  SHOES EXHIBITION at Juniper Hall, 220 Oxford Street, Paddington

April 29 – May 21, 2022

Sale of Artwork is both online and on premises