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Queer art shines at The Other Art Fair Sydney this week
The Cutaway Barangaroo is hosting The Other Art Fair Sydney from 12-15 October and organisers say to expect an experience that is “inclusive, inspiring, evocative, fun, and accessible to everyone.” The Other Art Fair aims to showcase original yet affordable works from 130 independent artists in an immersive art experience that also includes live DJ …
Women Loving Women Through Ages
QNews spoke to author Danielle Scrimshaw about her groundbreaking history of Australian lesbians and others assigned female at birth, She and Her Pretty Friend. WORDS Andrew M Potts QNEWS: The women that you’ve profiled from the 18th and 19th Centuries lived very different lives based on the class they were born into. Could you explain …
Sydney artist Jeremy Smith shows off his gay body of work in new exhibition
Sydney artist Jeremy Smith is a PhD candidate at UNSW Art and Design and is exhibiting a series of drawings and lightboxes in an exhibition of his doctoral research titled Atlas of Narrative Cartography, from this week until July 19 at M Contemporary in Darlinghurst. The opening night is this Thursday, the 6th of July …
BASQUIAT, HARING, WARHOL: Iconic artists come to Gold Coast
Some of the most vibrant and thought-provoking pieces to ever grace the world of art are going to be on display next month in Pop Masters. Home of the Arts’ (HOTA) latest collection, “Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York”, is coming to the Gold Coast. This daring exhibition features legendary artists who …
How Indigenous artist Dylan Mooney is queering The Dreaming
Dylan Mooney’s artworks tell stories of intimacy and identity. The subject of his works, queer Indigenous bodies, set against elemental dreamscapes of vivid resilience. Arms draped across chests, heads rested in laps, eyes softened. The gazes are focused – sometimes on each other, other times on the viewer. Their faces reveal a deeper meaning, one …
Meet the artists making clothing using the blood of gay men
Zain Curtis is the “painter and textile artist with a limp wrist” as he describes himself. Hailing from the underground club scene of Chicago, Curtis has carved out a career in branding himself as a provocateur. His art is both provoking and also camp: acrylic paintings of perverse sexual acts, a jock-strap rug. Queer sexuality …
Mitchell Fine Art gallery unveil latest exhibition – ‘Edge’
An exhibition of hard edge painters is the final show for 2022 at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley Brisbane. ‘Edge’, which opened on the 29th of November, presents the artworks of Sydney artists Annalisa Ferraris and Maximillian Daniels, and Central Australian Indigenous artist Kudditji Kngwarreye. Their paintings are interpretations of an artform that combines hard …
Mitchell Fine Art: one of Brisbane’s most engaging gallery spaces
Mitchell Fine Art is an exciting addition to the Brisbane art scene. The gallery is showcasing a selection of Australia’s leading Aboriginal and Contemporary artists in a modern gallery space in Fortitude Valley. Mitchell Fine Art brings over 20 years of experience in the art industry and is one of the country’s established names in …
Dear Queensland, our powerful queer stories are now online at QAGOMA
QAGOMA have now released the first batch of beautiful stories from the QAGOMA project, Dear Queensland. The stories of GLBTQIA+ queenslanders have now been released online. And there are some beautiful and captivating stories of our lives. QAGOMA: Dear Queensland QAGOMA and artist Shannon Novak are leading the Dear Queensland Program. In conjunction with The …
This nude portrait of Benjamin Law is up for the Archibald Prize
Artists’ portraits of Benjamin Law and Courtney Act are among the finalists for this year’s prestigious Archibald Portrait Prize. The Archibald Prize is the country’s oldest and most popular art prize and is awarded each year to a portrait depicting someone “distinguished in art, letters, science or politics.” The Art Gallery of NSW unveiled the …
