Love Club, "The Love Letters Archive", 2021- ongoing
The Love Letters Archive is an online open submission archive for Queer love letters. Letters may be addressed to ourselves, future selves, or to someone who needs to hear our love. Each letter is a personal reflection on our own journeys of understanding the beautiful, ever-evolving nature of queerness. As queer people look for comfort, we can rarely access stories from queer people that document their journeys of queerness, of first crushes, of queer friendship. Queer People are often left out of archives and are forced to piece together stories of earlier queer communities using the words of ignorant sources, not the words of our own community. Hence, we have created a website community board to archive these letters - an archive for queer people, by queer people.
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Programming:
Love Club, Love Letters Archive X Kudos Gallery, "Art Mail", 2021
In September 2021, with Kudos Gallery's Art Mail Program, Love Club sent over 300 rainbow envelopes across the world from the unceded land of the Eora nation. Each envelope contained 3 letters, one from each member of Lov Club and a piece of coloured paper, inviting people to write their own letter to contribute.
Love Club, "Love Letters Archive: Constellation Board", 2021-ongoing, participatory installation, pin board, fabric, pins, string, ribbon, table, chair, pens, paint markers, paper, dimensions variable
Shown at Emporium presented by MAD X Zoid Magazine, Mothership, December 2022
Love Club, "Love Letters Archive: The Table", 2021-ongoing, participatory installation, desk, chair, floor cushion, pens, pencils, paint markers, sharpie pens, paper, and stickers, 120cm x 75cm x 73cm
Shown at Unboxed / Lahtipakitud curated by Lachlan Bell, Estonian House Sydney, November 2022
Audience members are invited to write a love letter to themselves or someone they love. A letter can be written formally sitting at the desk with writing tools and paper provided. Or, Audience members are invited to graffiti a love message directly onto the underside of the desk. Audience members have the choice to lie on the floor or the desk can be repositioned to cater for individual access needs.
"Indigenous Justice". 2019, drawings on Stonehenge
Shown at Art Express Exhibition, Griffith Regional Gallery 2020
The intent behind my body of work was to make a statement about the continuation of the discriminatory policies and brutality inflicted on Indigenous people since colonisation. I drew a series of objects with a visual quality that emphasises the innocence of these objects. Each object represents real cases in which people were arrested, assaulted and/or died in custody. It is important to recognise that although this work highlights a few cases, it is a story of thousands. No one should face incarceration and brutality because of their heritage and the colour of their skin.
