23 April - 17 May 2025

FELTdark

Sarah Tickle
Wolf Whistle

Statement 

Yes, wolf-whistles are the thin end of this wedge – the “harmless” reminder that a woman's role in public is to be judged and commented on by men." - Laura Bates Like most things in a feminist space, the silencing of woman has always been around and yet is never at the forefront of history because it doesn’t affect, who’s in power.

A Connection and inquiry into spaces you may not of even thought about is the goal of this work, questioning your own thoughts and felling the work provokes seeing the fear in the woman’s eye’s and potential recognizing them in your own , or just giving a perspective you hadn’t thought about and yet had the authority over.

Highlighting feminist issues thought the instantaneously recognisable medium of cinema, The silencing of female voices has been brilliantly implemented in keeping the ever presence patriarchy in power, even now ,when it seems the continual fight throughout history to empower woman giving them the strength to finally demand equality ,because of the ever present cultural and societal need to silence woman, we are all complicit in keeping this status quo.

Artist Bio

Sarah Tickle is a Tarntanya (Adelaide) based artist who uses an autoethnographic lens, tapping into her deep-seated feminist principles and her own gender non-conformity, to create video/moving image media works which attempt to convey the disproportionate negative treatment of females in society.

Tickle utilises a cinematic language, a self-taught communication style, a survival skill - cinema and television being her only connection with the external ‘real’ world - when experiencing a mental illness (agoraphobia) in her late teenage years. These factors feed her artistic practice where Tickle makes works highlighting inequality which she herself has experienced. Tickle’s work attempts to convey her conceptual concerns by accessing an instantly recognised medium, cinema, an unwritten narrative. Tickle will continue to manipulate cinematic, and other visual media, to create works that challenge what it means to be a female in society.