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Lovers: Erotic Art Depicting Couples

Time for an inspiration post. Here are some images we’ve gathered on the theme of ‘lovers.’ We’re digging the mixture here: from lustfully entangled limbs, to playful and quirky, to raw intimate moments. Grab your lover and create some art for us – there’s still time before entries close on August 30th!

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The Erotic Self: 5 Artists Working in Nude Self Portraits

This year, the biggest change to FECK:ART is the addition of a new Self Portrait category with a prize of $1000. This means that if your entry is a self portrait, it is eligible in ALL categories – so you could take out the $3000 First Prize, the $1000 Runner Up or the $1000 Self Portrait Prize.

Last year it just so happened that both of the Runners Up were self portraits and this has inspired us to deliberately encourage artists to submit self portraits in 2015.

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East Brunswick Warehouse Conversion

Venue Revealed: East Brunswick Pop-Up Gallery

Now that the Melbourne Fringe guides are out, so is our little secret: the venue that will house our debauchery for two weeks.

We’ve been working hard on prepping the exhibition space – a warehouse, converted specifically for FECK:ART. It will function as a pop-up gallery just for the purpose of our little ol’ erotic art exhibition.

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Porn Failure

How Has Porn Failed, Exactly?

You may have mulled over what exactly we mean with our theme: “Can art succeed where porn fails – to actually turn us on?”

Who are we to say that porn has failed anyway? We make the stuff technically, though we prefer the term ‘socially responsible erotica.’ And, it’s true, it certainly depends how you look at it; porn has been succeeding in getting many, many people off for a long time.

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