After receiving La Trobe University’s Emerging Curator Award in 2017, I put together an exhibition at La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo titled ‘Artivisms Now’.
Bringing together five artists with diverse practices coagulating over humour, critique and activism, ‘Artivisms Now’ is a staunch gesture of resistance through pride, and resilience. ‘Artivisms Now’ focuses on speaking directly to those affected by marginalisation through the use of inter-community visual and linguistic signs potentially identifiable to, but not for, the work’s intended audience.
Caroline Garcia, Parallel Park, Pierra Van Sparkes, Xanthe Dobbie.
Xanthe Dobbie, ‘Wallpaper Queens’, digital collage for 16:10 screen ratio printed on silk charmeuse, 102x64cm.
Parallel Park, ‘Into Another’ (2018). Single-channel video, 9:15mins, Eulogies.
Pierra Van Sparkes, ‘Blackfulla Bingo’ (2017). Bingo pens, ink and print on boards, dimensions variable.
RHS: Caroline Garcia, Flygirl (2017). HD Video, 32:00mins.