Dans Bain

24/09/2022

Sign the Petition

Please sign.

https://www.change.org/p/killer-unfit-for-release-ever-dept-of-health-victoria-fails-to-protect-courtney-herron?recruiter=83251534&recruited_by_id=f3f04fd2-f250-49ed-8498-acb0af440bce&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard

KILLER UNFIT FOR RELEASE EVER. DEPT. OF HEALTH VICTORIA FAILS TO PROTECT COURTNEY HERRON

23/09/2022

We are just over 4 weeks away from the close of speech submissions...so it’s time to get writing! 📝

With the support of The Australian Youth Affairs Coalition and UNICEF Australia, we have over 70 Senators and MPs ready to help amplify your voice within Federal Parliament!

If you are 21 or younger, we want to hear what you think Australia’s new Parliament should accomplish.

Send us your 90 second speech (approx. 200 words) before 19 October for the opportunity to have your words read in Federal Parliament in Youth Voice in Parliament week from 21-24 November 📣

Head to www.raiseourvoiceaustralia.com/youthvoice for templates, more information, and to make your submission today!

22/09/2022

[ID: former street art in Sydenham of the queens head revamped so that her face is the yellow part of the Aboriginal flag with black above and red below.
From Department of HomoAffairs
“morning - the only sovereignty is First Nations Sovereignty- see you at the rally”

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🖤💛❤️ ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻💚💙🤍

20/09/2022

So this happened.. !

20/09/2022

Last friday I attended the opening of the Art for Social Change Awards night .
I was completely unprepared and humbled to win the Mayoral
Award from the .
I’d like to personally thank the mayor and councilors who acknowledge the crisis of male violence against women and children and are committed to action.

Congratulations to the other award recipients and all the artists who were selected to be part of the exhibition. The work on show is incredible, please get along to see the artworks if you can.
You can vote for your favourite artwork in the peoples choice award in person at the gallery.

Big thanks to and their team at incinerator for the support, clear communication and careful consideration when exhibiting The Lost Petition.

Gratitude to my family and friends for their unwavering support and belief in me. 💛

Whenever I engage with The Lost Petition my thoughts are with the women and children who have lost their lives. I wish yo acknowledge their families, friends and also, survivors of violence. ❤️
This work is for you all and it will continue for as long as it needs to. 🖤

15/09/2022

Photos from Dan Andrews's post

13/09/2022

Aboriginal man dies in custody, the second in Victoria in just over a month

Aboriginal man dies in custody, the second in Victoria in just over a month

Clinton Austin was meant to be getting out of prison. His family is now mourning after he died in jail, one of more than 500 First Nations people to die in custody sin...

09/09/2022

Today we mourn.

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[Image Description:

An image that says, “today we mourn all the stolen, violated, and traumatized lives who were affected and destroyed during Queen Elizabeth II reign. Today is a brutal reminder that war criminals will be honoured while entire populations and societies bear the battle scars of colonial genocide, invasion, religious persecution, and white supremacy.”] 

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From on IG

07/09/2022

This is a fantastic idea.

06/09/2022

During August this year 10 women and children had their lives taken by male violence. Here I add their name to The Lost Petition.

🖤 1016 women and children have lost their lives since 2008. 🖤

Thank you to Sherele Moody for her research that underpins this project.

06/09/2022

CW: violence against women and children.

This week I added names to The Lost Petition, these women and children have had their lives stolen because of male violence.

Some of their names you might have heard in the media, the majority of them haven’t been reported in the news.

Please stay tuned as The Lost Petition be on public display in the coming weeks.
I’ll post details soon.

This work is only made possible by the support and tireless research of Sherele Moody of The RED HEART Campaign.

05/09/2022

Remembering Stella Young

Finally some good news!

A few years ago I started a project called ‘Ode to Pioneering Women’.
A series of an illustrative paste-up installation that celebrates the lives of radical women, while acknowledging the absence of monuments to women in the city of Melbourne, and around the world.
This installation highlights the historical achievements of women that go unrecognised in public space.

These women include:
Narelle Grech (who passed in 2013), she was my best friend and an activist and spokesperson for donor conceived people.
Alli Coster, a friend who embodies the inner strength and generosity of everyday women.
Disability activist, journalist and comedian Stella Young.
Indigenous community advocate and Yorta Yorta Elder, Aunty Pam.
The first woman to stand for national parliament and Suffragette Vida Goldstein.
Young Australian of the Year Merita Cheng.
Equal Rights Activist Zelda D’Aprano. And the series concludes with jazz singer, transgender and queer person of colour, Mama Alto.

It is so exciting to see actual statues of these amazing women come to fruition. Zelda D’Aprano’s statue is in development and now Stella Young. It maybe glacial but change is happening. 💪❤️

The Remembering Stella Young project will deliver a statue of Stella Young in her hometown of Stawell to celebrate, commemorate and remember her.

20/08/2022

School sport was a hellscape for me. At 41 I’m hooked on exercise for the first time

My amazing friend Jasper wrote this.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/aug/20/school-sport-was-a-hellscape-for-me-at-41-im-hooked-on-exercise-for-the-first-time?fbclid=IwAR2e9U-0eK0dIEqrxtlwA2ku5KY3_RJaMcMWopix1QRg9wgOQEjV106xuHQ

I felt self-conscious in PE class from the age of five because I was slower than everyone else. So I checked myself out of an active lifestyle until well into adulthood

16/08/2022

My bill will be debated tomorrow and the wealthy Australian Christian Lobby have been bombarding MPs emails in recent days. We need to fight back. There's 24 hours left for you to take action.

Please support our rights to access all legal health procedures in public health.

👉 https://fionapatten.com.au/norighttorefuse/

15/08/2022

11/08/2022

Thank you Fiona Patten MP

10/08/2022

CW: mention of violence against women and children.

One week ago I was invited to present The Lost Petition at Parliament of Victoria.

I saw it as a great opportunity for politicians to hear directly from the lived experience of women and children and victims’ families affected by male violence.

I wanted survivors and families of the victims named in my work to speak but I was refused.
The Lost Petition is not about silencing victims, it is about having voices heard.

I am incredibly grateful that I was given permission to speak on behalf of Lee Little about her daughter Alicia Little.
Alicia was a much loved mum and daughter, she was only 41. She did everything right to save herself, she was making arrangements to leave when she was killed. Her children are unseen victims of family violence.
Her killer spent less than 3 years in jail for violently running her down. Upon release, he moved interstate to the Queensland neighbourhood of Alicia Little’s family.
The Little’s are campaigning for a national register for domestic violence to prevent perpetrators crossing borders and committing more acts of violence as well as mandatory family violence training for judges in the higher courts.

I’d like to acknowledge John Herron who is still seeking justice for his daughter Courtney Herron.

My gratitude goes to Miska and her two children they are survivors of family violence.
Miska and her children who are calling for early intervention to prevent family violence. They want everyone to learn the red flags of coercive control, accept that we are all bystanders who need to speak up. They call on us to not enable or make excuses for the behavior of perpetrators.
Men who do family violence are your friends, co-workers and relatives. Speak up.

Finally my thanks go to my partner Casual Workforce, Andy Meddick MP and Bronwyn Currie Animal Justice Party Candidate Sherele Moody, Karen Pickering March4Justice and all of the advocates for women and children affected by male violence. My gratitude to the survivors of violence and victims families. 🖤

06/08/2022

Thank you Tania Maxwell MP

05/08/2022

Congratulation to this beautiful family, but lets say everything in Aus is about white saviour culture. The very public return of this family is a paradoxical and challenging story. Specially when we remember that there are still more 100s refugees remaining in Port Moresby&Nauru. This is a familiar pattern: a particular refugee or family’s story becomes known by the public, they are eventually released from detention or get visa, the public celebrate it as an achievement but there is no fundamental change.Other refugees are not released, no policy is changed, nor does it prevent the government from incarcerating other asylum seekers. This paradox is a primary part of white saviour culture – a culture that is integral to the continuation of Australia’s immigration policy

04/08/2022

Thank you Bronwyn Currie Animal Justice Party Candidate

Today at Victoria's Parliament we gathered to pay respect to the women and children who have lost their lives to gendered violence.

An exhibition of The Lost Petition by artist Dans Bain, sponsored by Andy Meddick MP and organised by myself with March4Justice was brought to Parliament where our lawmakers could see up close the name of every woman and child killed in Australia, printed on white linen, 1008 lives lost since 2008.

As Dans pointed out in her speech, we talk about the lives of women killed at the rate of one per week on average, conversely that means one man per week in Australia becomes a murderer.

As someone with lived experience of family violence, I understand the red flags, the warning signs, though sometimes there are none and I stand firm, resolute and formidable in demanding our politicians, our governments act on preventing men and boys from becoming murderers, preventing the lives of women and children being taken. We must have education, early intervention and prevention strategies.

Being close to The Lost Petition is quite harrowing actually, it carries a deep sorrow that reduces many to tears, I hope it moves lawmakers to action. When I am elected I will make the safety and equality of women an absolute priority.

My heartfelt thanks to everyone involved in exhibiting this work and my love to those touched by violence.

* The research underpinning The Lost Petition is by Sherele Moody, the femicide researcher and award-winning journalist behind The RED HEART Campaign and Australian Femicide Watch.

04/08/2022

Thank you Andy Meddick MP

04/08/2022

This time last year I gave my mum her favourite candle, a book voucher, and a copy of her favourite authors newest book. I rubbed out my birthday message written on the chalkboard and replaced it with one for mum, seeing how long it would take for her to notice.

This year, instead of buying books, candles, flowers, and getting to give mum the birthday she deserves, my mum has a memorial on the mantel place next to a candle, surrounded by flowers and near some books, many waiting to be read by Rachel.

My mum should be here with us, celebrating the cluster of family birthdays in these weeks, instead, we are navigating life without her, and crying out for the justice she deserves.

So today, on mums birthday, I ask that you think of my mum Rachel, and do something kind for another person, like Rachel did every day.

See you later alligator, I love you.

04/08/2022

Petition artwork a reminder of DV victims

Thank you Dan Andrews for taking the time to read the names of the women and children listed on The Lost Petition, who have lost their lives to male violence in Australia.

I am so grateful to present The Lost Petition at Parliament.

I would be happy to share my speech with you on behalf of victims families and survivors. Please get in touch.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11075975/Petition-artwork-reminder-DV-victims.html

A confronting artwork is on display in the halls of Victorian power as the state government concedes more must be done to stop domestic violence.The Lost...

03/08/2022

My thanks go to the victims families and survivors of male violence for attending and allowing me to speak in their behalf.

Thank you to Andy Meddick MP and Bronwyn Currie Animal Justice Party Candidate for organising the exhibition.

Thanks to Sherele Moody of The RED HEART Campaign for the research and support that underpins The Lost Petition. 🖤

This week at Parliament House, The Lost Petition is on display, commemorating the women and children who have lost their lives to gendered violence since 2008.

Created by artist Dans Bain, it currently lists 1007 women and children.

02/08/2022

Photos from March4JusticeMelbourne's post

01/08/2022

If you think It’s important that Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people have a say in matters that effect them, then get behind a first nations voice to parliament when you get the chance.

We understand of course that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are not one homogeneous group, thats for sure.
We should know, we once travelled outside of Northcote.

And look, some might say we’re not changing the world by wearing these tshirts (design by ).
But know, we’re more than proud to do so.
💪🏻💪🏽💪🏿


www.ulurustatement.org

29/07/2022

2022 The Lost Petition By Dans Bain

Earlier in the year, before we flew to Canberra to present The Lost Petition at Parliament House, I managed to capture the work in its original exhibition location - the Great Petition at Burston Reserve, Melbourne.

Huge thanks to Casual Workforce for the edit and music and Arbee Aerials for capturing the work with drones.

Content Warning: This project mentions violence against women and children. This project also contains the names of some Indigenous women and children lost to male violence.

Please note: The Lost Petition is underpinned by the research by Sherele Moody of The Red Heart Campaign and the Australian Femicide and Child Death Map.

https://youtu.be/halc7nYN1Qs

The Lost Petition (2022) By Dans BainBurston Reserve, Melbourne, Australia.Content Warning: This project mentions violence against women and children. This p...

27/07/2022

Feminisms at George Paton Gallery — Women's Art Register

Earlier in the year, Sherele Moody from The RED HEART Campaign and I collaborated on a mural called 'Femicide Nation' in Hosier Lane, Melbourne.
We documented the mural and its defacement and in July submitted the images to George Paton Gallery for their Feminisms exhibition.
I also submitted a video of The Lost Petition at Burston Reserve https://www.dansbain.com/copy-of-the-lost-petition-2021 (scroll to the bottom of the page).

Here is a video of the opening night of Femimisms at George Paton Gallery. Thanks to everyone for their support on these projects.

https://www.womensartregister.org/news/feminisms-george-paton-gallery

As a fitting farewell to the George Paton Gallery in its current location, the Women’s Art Register took part in When you think about feminism, what do you think? George Paton Gallery, Feminisms 1975–2022 . The show, curated by Sandie Bridie and Emma Shaw, with Caroline Phillips, mapped 50 years...

26/07/2022

25/07/2022

Vale Diane Kershaw

The MCA acknowledges the sad passing of Diane 'Di' Kershaw OAM.

Di was a much-loved member of the MCA family whose longstanding contributions include 20 years of service as an MCA Guide.

A passionate supporter of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, Di generously contributed, with her husband Mick, to the donation of works by Alick Tipoti, including 'Adhikuyam' and the monumental print 'Girleal'.

In June 2020, Di received the Order of Medal of Australia (OAM) for her long-time service to the visual arts.

We are deeply saddened by her passing and extend our heartfelt condolences to her family and loved ones.

23/07/2022

Damian Adams

16/07/2022

Photos from The Age's post

15/07/2022

Photos from Art Gallery of Ballarat's post

13/07/2022

To be completely honest, I wish this didn't need to exist.

Because every single one of us should be able to get on and get to where we're going in peace.

And no one has the right to make you feel unsafe.

That's where STOPIT comes in.

It's a new service from Victoria Police helping victims and witnesses to discreetly report unwanted anti-social behaviour on public transport.

Our police have a very high success rate when it comes to identifying offenders - but only if it's reported.

So by telling them, you can help them do something about it.

And make our PT safer for everyone.

11/07/2022

03/07/2022

Photos from Kharkov's post

03/07/2022

Vale Jane Garrett MP 🤍

DCA is deeply saddened to learn of the recent passing of Jane Garrett MP. Jane was a tireless advocate for donor conceived people throughout our efforts for law reform in Victoria during 2010-2016, former Vice-chair of the Law Reform Committee, whose recommendations formed the basis of world-first legislation, known as Narelle’s Law passed in the Parliament of Victoria in Feb 2016.

Donor conceived people are forever grateful for Jane's incredible empathy and energy.
Donor Conceived Australia send their deepest condolences to Jane's family.
Rest in peace Jane.

Here Jane (second left) is joined by other donor conception advocates at the opening of the DC art exhibition in 2015 at the Melbourne City Library.

09/06/2022

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31/05/2022

'Overflow of talent': Record 10 women appointed to Cabinet

A good start..

Ten of the 23 person Cabinet unveiled by Anthony Albanese today are female. It's a record in Australia.

31/05/2022

Donor conceived: 'At 40 I found out my dad wasn't my biological father'

We are long overdue reforming and regulating the fertility industry 🤦‍♀️

Aimee Shackleton had her world turned upside down when she found out she was donor conceived. She's one of many Australians caught up in a system that doesn't have national laws regulating the rights of donor conceived people.

28/05/2022

What The Albanese Government Needs To Do To Address Women’s Safety

Thanks to Refinery29 Australia for this interview 💪💗

Women's safety advocates hold Anthony Albanese and the Labor party to account on addressing family, domestic and sexual violence issues.