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Had a Treat playing at The Retreat in Melbs not too long ago; massive thanks to the lovely Simone @snapsbysimz for capturing these beaut photos 📸

This year has been full to the brim of magical moments and musical blessings - and I cant wait to end 2026 off with these two stellar festivals - @newfarmnewcountry & @wild_village_festival 🧚🏻

- 6th ~ 8th November - @newfarmnewcountry - they have just announced the set times tooo, and boy I can’t wait to listen to some sweet country music 🪶🤩

- 13th ~ 16th November - @wild_village_festival what a poster!! 😍 I love it when I’m on the same line up as dear friends , and @katemillerheidke is head-lining - how exciting!! 🤩

Tickets via LinkTree 🪾

I would love to see you there

Lots of love,
Sav

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Thanks to @snapsbysimz for these lovely pics ~ at my first gig of my Naarm Tour, at the Retreat Hotel in Brunswick! It’s always nerve racking playing in a new city and venue - but I had a blast! Remember its quality over quantity, and I just want to say I appreciate the people that watched me play - it meant a lot 🤗🧚🏻

Melbs has been grand by the way - I’ve done lots of sight seeing - and went to an amazing exhibition called ‘Rebel Heart’ at the State Library - all about the resilience of love. All I know is analogue needs to come back baby ~ someone write me a love letter 💌 hehe

The Melbourne museum also blew my mind ~ and I loved going back in time to the Roman Empire, as well as seeing their vast collection of insects and animals.

Aside from that - I have been eating lots of yummy food and finding lots of treasures in all the vintage shops!!

Tonight I’ll be catching up with Dean on Sunbury Radio for his ‘In The Jailhouse tonight’ Radio show - it’s going to be sooo much fun! Next gigs of the tour are @drunkenpoetmusic tomorrow night 8-8:45, and @newportfolkfest3015 Friday and Saturday 🪕🎶🌼

Where should I check out next?

Lots of love,
Sav xx

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🩷 QUEER HEIRLOOMS 🩵

You have just over a week to check out the queerest exhibition of the naarm calendar year. Always an honour to have my work hung alongside so many other incredible artists, and this painting is very dear to my heart.

📸 @snapsbysimz

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My piece ‘Flicker, Fever, Fill the Form’ is at Unassigned Gallery in Brunswick, for the remainder of this month!!!

It is such a joy to be exhibiting alongside so many talented artists and I am so grateful for this space!

Photos by @snapsbysimz

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Thank you thank you thank you to all who came and celebrated Queer Love with us for the open night of the Queer Heirlooms exhibition!

This exhibition is so special, with 100 Queer artists contributing personal works, it feels like such a privilege to be surrounded by everything this exhibition has to offer 💘

The exhibition runs until June 29th and is open Thurs-Mon 12-4

Stunning photos by @snapsbysimz

Lots of Love,
Unassigned Gallery X Queer love Collective

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I had the privilege and honour of working with the incredibly hardworking, talented and amazing @missgrandsouthsudan @akoi.arok on a recent photoshoot, as she prepares for @missgrandinternational ❤️ Thank you so much for trusting me to capture your portrait, it was such a pleasure 📸

Dream team ~ @strategixmedi.a @overloadfilms @snapsbysimz

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One of my all time favourite photos ~ of the beautiful Akoi @akoi_cg from @strategixmedi.a during a recent photoshoot 📸 Thank you for trusting me with your vision and being such a wonderful human to work with. This portrait reminds me of some of my favourite music videos in the 90’s, it gives me so much nostalgia, and I love to see images of self love. Thank you so much again for having me ❤️

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✨In every moment I am the woman I need to be. Present. Ready. Determined.

@missgrandinternational
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After 7 months off socials, and 18 months of spectating my life falling apart, I’m finally back in the drivers seat again ❤️

In my time away, I turned 38 in October. The same day in December I graduated my 3rd degree, my divorce was finalised, and the irony is not lost on me. I started working a fulltime new job, surrounded by unfamiliar faces, whilst feeling the most alone I have ever felt in my life.

I felt scared for my future. Scared about who would take care of me in my darkest hours. Scared about money. Scared that maybe I’d never be loved again. Scared that children might no longer be an option for me.

I felt embarrassed, humiliated, and ultimately, that I was a bad person - that the divorce was my fault - as if it was something I could control.

The truth is, my divorce is not the unique, special, “different” divorce I thought it was.

It was, and is, the same as everyone else’s. A relationship ended, a contract and promise was broken, and I was completely and utterly blindsided.

I have since come to learn the real reason my marriage ended, and I no longer feel bad about myself. I can see that as much as I wanted things to work, marriages need two people who are ready and willing. It’s not my fault, nor within my control, if someone else is not in the same place as me.

For a time, I had something beautiful, until I didn’t.

I needed time away from the noise of social media to fully process this.

Today, my body finally feels that chapter of my life is over.
I don’t feel scared anymore.
I feel like me again.

I sat at my piano last night, and something about the light on my face and my reflection in window made me feel beautiful. I looked at myself in wonder. Here are my first self portraits of me, titled ‘Self Wonder’, and a song I’ve started writing called ‘I’m coming back to me’ or maybe ‘Back to me’… I’m imaging the theme of my next album and exhibition. Stronger, wiser, more trusting of myself, more me.

The video is of the ceiling, but you’ll be able to hear me playing the piano and singing the beginning bones of my next chapter.

#fyp #explorepage #strangers #belleburden #newchapter

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Get ready for an unforgettable Night 🎉 @ytsgucciboi is turning up for his 100th show

Save the date, October 18th 💥

🎟️ Tickets in bio @ytsgucciboi

📸Photography By: @snapsbysimz
🤳🏿Social media Videography: @strategixmedi.a
🎥Music video Videographer: @flynnmadeit
🎙️Studio: @creativedistrictau

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Officially filed for divorce like a mf boss 🥇

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