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Debra Billson

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👗We’re frocking up this Frocktober!👰‍♀️
As part of our Inconvenient Women exhibition, on Sunday October 4, at around 11:30am, we’re conducting our own ‘wedding’ procession through Eltham — not only to showcase the collaborative dress the community has been decorating, but to also raise funds for crucial ovarian cancer research.

🚺 The current five-year survival rate for ovarian cancer patients sits at just 49%. There is no early detection test, and treatment options haven’t improved significantly in decades. One member of our group lost her mother to disseminated ovarian carcinoma, making this cause particularly close to our hearts.

💕Please support our shocking wedding frocks with a donation, big or small. Every contribution helps fund vital research through the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation and gives us a good reason to frock up and make a spectacle of ourselves through the streets of Eltham!

Google FROCTOBER and search then INCONVENIENT WOMEN to contribute. 💕

@debrabillson @rebecca_armstrong_painting @kirstendunkley_art @rosechonghire @susannahlowstudio by @debrabillson

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🖼️🪡’The Glass Ceiling’.
Germaine Greer (b. 1939) is an Australian writer, academic and one of the most influential feminist thinkers of the twentieth century. Her groundbreaking book The Female Eunuch (1970) became a defining text of second-wave feminism. In recent years, however, Greer has been widely criticised for her views on transgender women, prompting protests against her public appearances and renewed debate about her place within contemporary feminism.

Now on show📍Eltham Library Community Gallery as part of the Inconvenient Women exhibition 🎨
(Link in bio)

Original photo by Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy by @debrabillson

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🧵The People’s Princess (Embroidery floss on cotton/linen)🪡

👑 Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997), became known as ‘the people’s princess’ for her compassion, accessibility, and humanitarian work. Her willingness to embrace ordinary people, challenge royal traditions, and speak openly about personal struggles made her beloved worldwide. However, her independence, media influence, and outspoken nature often unsettled the royal establishment, with conspiracy theorists suggesting this led to her death while being pursued by paparazzi.

🦜Seen here with an embroidered Australian Spectacled Monach

🖼️ This piece is sold, but still on show at Eltham Library Community Gallery until the end of October, along with 45 other artworks acknowledging Inconvenient Women.

➡️ Details in bio by @debrabillson

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9 days ago

TONIGHT - Opening celebration! All welcome!

🗓️ Thursday 24 September
⏰ 6pm – 8pm
📍Eltham Library Community Gallery
Panther Place, Eltham, VIC

Join us for some bubbles!

Revealing Manet’s Muse is sold, but there’s still around 40 artworks by five artists to view…. 🖼️🧵

Victorine-Louise Meurent (1844–1927) was a French painter and musician, best known as the favourite nude model and muse for artist Édouard Manet. ‘Self-Portrait’ (c. 1876) offers a rare opportunity to see the artist as she chose to present herself, rather than through the male gaze. This work was exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon in 1876 – the same year Manet's submission was rejected. Here, the artwork is embellished with embroidery floss, bringing Victorine into a new century with a new appreciation.

@susannahlowstudio @susannahlowstudio @kirstendunkley_art @rosechonghire
@nillumbikarts by @debrabillson

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Book-mail! Postman finally brought me my copy of this, and it’s hard to photograph the spot gloss UV on the lettering and squares (printed on the reverse side of the board), so you’re just going to have to believe me 😆 Goes well with my painting by Clair Brenner though!! And what lovely light we’re getting this time of year in the late afternoon!

🍃🌼Wild Hope: Stories of living and leading in uncertain times by Claire Scobie – Inspiring stories of ordinary people creating extraordinary change, offering a hopeful vision of the future rooted in action, connection and courage.

@newsouthpublishing by @debrabillson

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13 days ago

Join us for a FREE celebration event THIS Thursday🍾RSVP via link in bio 🖼️ taken in Eltham Library by @debrabillson

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Today’s bookmail! 📚The heart-stopping new historical adventure by the bestselling author of The Soldier’s Daughter, @fionamcintoshbooks

While war rages across the city of Valletta, a local barkeeper’s daughter Valentina Camilleri is on the cusp of womanhood when Flight Lieutenant Peter Fox falls out of the sky from his Spitfire and into her world. In that fateful moment, he captures not just her imagination and her dreams, but also her young heart.

Out October 27th

@penguinbooksaus by @debrabillson

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15 days ago

Thank you to all the lovely people who came to the Stitch Up workshop today, as part of our Inconvenient Women exhibition at the Eltham Library Community Gallery.

🧵 Participants stitched words to add to the collaborative wedding dress installation, and it’s coming together beautifully ❤️ But if you missed out today, there’s still plenty of time to contribute to the artwork. Just pop into the library, grab a piece of fabric from the basket, then return it when you’ve added your message at home.

Let’s see if we can fill the dress up with words (with no white left) before the exhibition closes on October 25th 👰‍♀️🖼️🪡

Eltham Library Community Gallery
Civic Drive
Eltham VIC

With thanks to @nillumbikarts and @nillumbikcouncilvic by @debrabillson

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17 days ago

Don’t freesias smell glorious?! I remember the first time I smelt them when I was four. We had just moved to NZ and we’re renting a house by a river - I can vividly remember the smell of them growing wild along the banks.

This lovely locally grown bouquet of flowers (with the freesias combined) are from @twosistersfreshproduce by @debrabillson

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Morning walks . . . 🐑☀️☁️ by @debrabillson

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What am I making? What will it spell??
You’ll have to come to our Inconvenient Women exhibition in a couple of weeks time and find out!

(Each letter takes me one evening+ to stitch, so the countdown is truly ON!!) 🪡

Please join us at our celebration event:

🗓️ Thursday 24 September
⏰ 6pm – 8pm

📍Eltham Library Community Gallery
Panther Place, Eltham, VIC

🥂Light refreshments will be served.

💰All welcome, entry is free.
Please RSVP via the link in my bio.

🖼️ Five artists explore the theme of female identity, amplifying the power of women’s stories shared through art.

18 September - 25 October

Rebecca Armstrong | Debra Billson | Kirsten Dunkley | Susannah Low | Rose Chong

With thanks to @nillumbikarts by @debrabillson

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SAVE THE DATE!
Four arty friends and I have been working hard making fresh things for another exhibition opening in September!

Inconvenient Women celebrates women who challenge societal norms.

Please join us at our celebration event:

🗓️ Thursday 24 September
⏰ 6pm – 8pm

📍Eltham Library Community Gallery
Panther Place, Eltham, VIC

🥂Light refreshments will be served.

💰All welcome, entry is free.
Please RSVP via the link in my bio.

🖼️ Five artists explore the theme of female identity, amplifying the power of women’s stories shared through art. Featuring textiles, costume, painting, ceramics, cyanotype, and assemblage.

@rebecca_armstrong_painting @kirstendunkley_art @susannahlowstudio
@debrabillson @rosechonghire

With thanks to @nillumbikarts and @nillumbikcouncilvic taken in Eltham Library by @debrabillson

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