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Does queer art have to look queer?

My first major solo show in a public museum opened a year ago today. On opening night, a man approached me and said, ‘What’s all this queer stuff? Are you just trying to be fashionable?’ These were landscapes that charted an 86 kilometre journey on foot. The title wall gave some indication of what made the works queer. This ‘beautiful and brutal’ journey brought to … Continue reading Does queer art have to look queer?

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Ray Monde: finalist in the Blacktown Art Prize 2020

When I was 12, my older brothers moved from the Burrell Creek in rural NSW to the Western Suburbs of Sydney to live and work, eventually settling in South Wentworthville. As a country kid, I thought Parramatta Westfield was the Sydney’s CBD. I thought Sydney was Parramatta. So Parramatta and Blacktown for me were glimpses into a wider world. A world that wasn’t focused on … Continue reading Ray Monde: finalist in the Blacktown Art Prize 2020

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