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soft tongues, gritted teeth
Artists: Jack Ball, Holly Bates, Hannah Brontë, Chelsea Farquhar, Claudia Nicholson, Lucy Whitelaw
Curated by Sarah Rose
Featuring artists from across Australia, soft tongues, gritted teeth presents artworks as a chorus of queer voices, reverberating to blur the bounds between the individual and collective experience. Navigating personal narratives and queer ecologies, the exhibition considers counter-heteronormative ways of being and connecting; collapsing harsh edges as a refusal of linearity. Reckoning with queer (in)visibility, questions are posed surrounding what is held within our bodies, what of this we choose to share, and how this is externalised. Through various outputs, the artists playfully and tenderly explore the body, gender, desire, and kinship, to offer affective encounters with queer intimacy and resistance.
20 February – 8 March
Opening Event 19 February 6pm - 8pm
This exhibition is proudly funded by Women NSW as part of NSW Government.
Jack Ball, Shower scenes 5, 2019, Inkjet print on rag, framed, Edition of 5, 70x93cm. Image courtesy the artist.
about the curator
Sarah Rose is a Gadigal/Sydney-based curator and arts worker, and is currently the Associate Curator and Executive Assistant, Artspace, Sydney. In recent years, Rose has collaborated closely with artists to produce 30 group and solo exhibitions. Curatorially, their practice reflects their interests into trace and imbued materiality, navigating the experiences that underpin our innate humanness, from its inherent dualisms to how these experiences shift between the singular and collective. Their current research is focused on representations of queer and gendered experiences, as well as technological interventions in museological spaces.
They were identified as a curator to look out for in the ‘Tastemaker’ section of Art Collector Magazine’s ‘50 Things Collectors Should Know’ issue (Jan–Mar 2023), and their curated exhibition ‘In the fibre of her being’ (2021–22), Fairfield City Museum and Gallery, received a 2022 MGNSW IMAGinE Award. Rose has previously held positions at the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), Create NSW, and is currently Coordinator of Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia (CAOA). They are Co-founder and Project Coordinator for ‘More Than Reproduction’, an artist-run initiative for printmakers in Australia.
Sarah Rose
Image Credit: Masha Jayasiri