Geelong artists will be recreating some of the most well-known artworks created by women and making them own as part of Geelong Illustrators’ latest exhibition.
Opening on International Women’s Day on March 8, Geelong Illustrators’ Like A Version 2.0 group exhibition will see local artists adding their own style and techniques to recognisable artworks through history.
Geelong Illustrators manager Clare Holder said the exhibition flowed on from the first Like A Version exhibition the group held in 2021 to pay homage to iconic artists.
“This year we decided to revisit the theme, with one key difference – all the well-known artists are women,” she said.
“By coincidence, all the artworks in our last Like A Version were by famous male artists, so what better way to change it up by choosing our favourite female artists, and open on International Women’s Day.”
Holder said exploring another artists’ styles had the potential to help boost the artists’ own creative practice, simply by trying something different.
The exhibition will have its official opening from 5.30-7.30pm on Tuesday, March 8 at the Geelong Illustrators Studio Gallery in Moorabool Street.
The exhibition will then run until Saturday, April 2.
Geelong Illustrators is a community group of artists from Geelong and surrounds with the aim to inspire each other to high standards of creativity and uplift each other with mutual support.
