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Pastel Sketch of the Long Gallery during Artfully Queer - HOME by John Paton

Mother will never understand why you had to leave
But the answers you seek will never be found at home
The love that you need will never be found at home

Lyrics, Smalltown Boy, Bronski Beat

The Artfully Queer - HOME Exhibition and Arts Program was held at the Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre between the 3rd and 21st of September 2021. Artists were asked to respond to the theme of Home.

What is home? Where is home? Home may be a safe place where you can be your true self, or a space where you feel you belong. Home may be a dream or aspiration, a place you haven't found yet. Home can be a taste, a smell, we can feel at home in our bodies, in our home, in our town, on our island... in our universe. Home can be a person or a group of people. Home can be an object, a feeling or an idea. As Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz says repeatedly, There's no place like home!" Phoebe Adams, Curator

Artfully Queer exhibition - HOme Artworks

C.R Byrne "A Secret Magic Fairy Place" [#1, #2 & #3]

Photographs and Poems created on the land of the muwinina peoples,
close to the waters of Kunanyi Nipaluna.
I pay my respects to Elders past, present and future.

Long exposures at twilight cast shadows and apparitions, a time when I connect to something bigger, beyond my un-knowing, when I commune with women past, ancient powers and nature.

C.R Byrne "A Secret Magic Fairy Place" [#1, #2 & #3] (detail)

Steven Carson [Featured Artist] "Here"

700mm x 700mm x 70mm
Collage - Adhesive vinyl, tape, on cellophane on wood

Georgie Fenton "My soul is home"

1080x660
Photomontage

'My soul is home' is all about my life journey that lead me to finally coming to terms with who I truly am and then beyond that, coming 'home' to myself.
It is about the difficult journey many gay people travel on the road to our own love and acceptance of ourselves. It is about evolving my soul by making this step forward in my life and declaring it publicly as I am a very private person.

Stephen Cronin "Huonville Gothic (after Grant Wood)"

2D 660 x 570mm
Photography

Our home is our sanctuary; a place to be creative, play, experiment and, above all, have fun.

Popheavy (Andrew Georgiou) "Pulp Friction"

30cm x 30cm x 4 works
Digital Composition on Ceramic
COVID sucks massive hairy balls. It's changed the way we live in so many ways.

While in home quarantine (twice thank you very fucking much) I fell into various rabbit holes of inspiration - one of which has been 'vintage queer erotic novel cover art'.

This genre of literature was paradoxical in its nature. It was created to titilate curious queer audiences (and profit from them), while at the same time demonise us through absurd and offensive book titles. Pulp Friction hijacks that original approach and subverts it through the 'homely' medium of nana plates. The series celebrates queer empowerment by proving that when you re-appropriate and own something you can turn it into something creative and positive.

Sabine Wagner "Pinocchio Revisited"

2000 x 1700 x 2000
Installation

Framed photo
710x1020

We all know the story of Pinocchio, the wooden puppet coming alive by interacting in a world that mixes reality and fantasy as created by Carlo Collidi in 1881-82 as a newspaper serial. To become truly human Pinocchio has to prove that he is able to show love and compassion for others.

Pinocchio Revisited is a photographic series that aims to humanize two wooden artist models by creating a collection of interactive scenes to tell their story. The purpose of this project is to create black and white images that show same-sex relationships and domestic life in a loving and positive light, photos that express ‘love is love’.
The series is divided in 4 distinct stages, from coming out and yearning for love and companionship, to the fireworks of a new romance, growing into a more intimate and meaningful relationship to a busy family life with twin boys. Each image intends to show emotions that render its subjects human.

Man Ray, a famous American avant-garde artist and leading figure of the dada and Surrealist movement created the Mr et Mrs Woodman series in 1947. It consists of a series of photographs of wooden jointed manikins having sexual intercourse. His work gave me the initial idea to utilise more than one model in my project and to turn his heterosexual erotic series into a same sex romantic one. To be able to capture love and emotions is an important part of Pinocchio Revisited. I applied negative space to express a sense of loneliness and struggle; sharp focus, rich textures and high contrast to express passion and romance. I utilised a shallow depth of field to express intimacy and closeness and to create a sense of ambiguity leaving the viewer wondering what will be next.

In this installation representing the home environment the digital photo frames on a sideboard cycle continuously through the 4 stages of the model’s relationship underneath a large family portrait. Opposite on the small table the family relaxes, enjoying their photo gallery. The two chairs invite the viewer to join them.
Sabine Wagner
September 2021

Sabine Wagner "Pinocchio Revisited" (detail)

Sabine Wagner "Pinocchio Revisited" (detail 2)

1225 x 1520
Paint and charcoal on canvas

George Kennedy [Assistant Curator] "Burning cars up the bush."

440x440mm
Unique state drypoint on 300gsm Hahnemuhle
My home is formed of fragments from people and places significant to me. Some are good, but not all of them.

Tricky Walsh [Featured Artist] Foundations

1500 x 1000 mm
Acrylic on paper

Well.
Home is a funny thing for a lot of us. Mine is bricked and mortared with the deep love and friendship of my community. People I have known for my whole adult life, people I may have walked past on the street, or lined up next to at a bar. More. People whose words I have only read, whose voice I will never hear, whose presence has nonetheless been indelible.
Home is the people you choose to keep around. Often it's also populated by the ones who got away. All of those who have defined your perimeters. My home is built with abstraction not concrete, which means that I have it here, always.

Izobelle Lindsay "I like pussy"

300 x 260, 500 x 600 (diptych)
Graphite on wood

Wherever I lay my cat is my home.

Voula Pleonie "Crystal Shard"

500 x 600mm
Photography
Archival Ink

My Hobart home transforms to a higher dimension.

Patricia Coombe "Objects"

Artwork: H 810 x W 610
Frame: H 920 x W 680
Oil Pastel on Hahnemuhle 100% cotton paper

Not long ago circumstances prevented me from having my own space and possessions around me. This illustration of my objects was inspired by the joy of having familiar things around me once again and pays homage to my son and his partner who made it possible. My objects, my space, my home, my belonging.

Phoebe Adams “Busy Sky”

Plywood, Unicorn Spit, String

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