QUEER QUILT

2018/2019

​This work is made from research around 'soft sculpture'. I found a huge connection between textile art and queer theory. Many artists that have inspired me find their own way to explore this such as Paul Yore, Caitlin Rose Sweet, LJ Roberts, Caroline Wells Chandler and Aaron Billings, and dissect queer themes of otherness, softness and identity.

In this work I explore the way in which otherness and identity affect communication. Issues that are most important are most often personal and political and the hardest to talk about. I find it really hard to communicate my experience of gender to others and often in the moment find it easier to let people make their own assumptions, to my own long term detriment. It is an interactive work - so get comfy, answer my call, I’ve got a lot to tell you.

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This work will be part of my group show Softly Redefined at First Site Gallery RMIT in April/May 2019.