Dr Joseph Brennan speaks with Darren Sylvester about the six photographs of ‘Treasure Island’ – diverse in subject, elaborately studio-staged, and rich in invention and pop-cultural resonance....
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Gerwyn Davies: Plush
Dr Joseph Brennan speaks with Gerwyn Davies about the 23 photographs of ‘Plush’, which through post-production embellishment realise the performative and aesthetic intensifications of ‘camp’ and generate new queer potentials....
Streeton
With more than 150 works drawn from 42 collections, ‘Streeton’ ventures further than any previous Arthur Streeton retrospective. Dr Joseph Brennan speaks with curator Wayne Tunnicliffe....
Drew Pettifer: A sorrowful act, the wreck of the Zeewijk
'A Sorrowful Act: The Wreck of the Zeewijk' derives from a broader investigation within Drew Pettifer's work to unearth hidden queer histories through archival art practices....
Friendship as a way of life
'Friendship as a way of life' looks at networks of exchange and forms of being together that LGBTQI+ communities have created and forged over time,’ say curators José Da Silva and Kelly Doley....
David Noonan: Stagecraft
David Noonan repurposes found photographic images from his extensive personal image archive to create images which are ambiguous, often with a focus on a solitary haunting figure. ...
Pezaloom: Small town fetish
‘The image projects multiple narratives of what was, what could have happened, the circumstances of a life, of loss, of lives past.’ – Pezaloom said about his works...
Pleasure
'Pleasure' seeks to embrace frivolity, contradictions and minor perversities’, curator Julian Goddard tells our writer, Dr Joseph Brennan....
Brad Rusbridge: Familiar Paintings
Brad Rusbridge’s ‘Familiar Paintings’ contains works that allude to a particular biographical occurrence from the artist’s past....