Women artists need to consider the basic attitudes underlying censorsh — Pat Hillcoat

"My work is for my own pleasure and fulfilment. I like to give form to my emotional and visual responses and to explore themes which reflect my attitudes as a socially concious woman artist."

"For the past 20 years I have been deconstructing the nude through drawing, painting and collage. Collage is a perfect medium for reappropriating and juxtaposing images from many sources and rearranging them as personal metaphors, analogies and ambiguities."

"When Ive travelled Ive been attracted by the human presences imprinted in inanimate objects and structures and I prefer the freedom and directness of watercolours to recall these associations. (discussing the merits of watercolour as an art medium)"

"Women are the consumers in society, but they are also the consumed. My purpose in the work (Down Under Among The Women) is to confirm more than to deny and if women are still portrayed as sex objects in art and society, my aim is to recreate them as sex subjects. I use sexual imagery in the context of the female body in an attempt to reveal the tragedy and comedy of womens lives."

"Both. I think it causes problems, but its something we must work with, as the North American women did. They included everyone instead of being exclusive. They had so much energy, and they were going parallel to the womens movement. Its a very difficult time now in Australia. We dont want to identify with North America because Australian women have a very different experience. (reflecting on her experience living and working in North America versus Australia, and as a direct answer to the questions: How do you feel at the thought of having contact with women in a Womens Art Movement who are not feminists? Does that seem exciting, or do you see it as causing a lot of problems?)"

"There is not nearly enough change here, the men have not kept up with the womens movement. In America I found that male artists used feminist ideas in their work. I dont see that here at all. (Hillcoats experience with the womens movement whilst living and working in North America versus Australia)"