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teetering, tittering, tits up
Playful reconfigurations of outdoor equipment in response to wetland bird hides and cruising sites.
Dates
18 Mar - 15 Apr 2023Galleries
Gallery OneGallery Opening Hours
Opening Event
Saturday 18 March, 4pm – 6pm
teetering, tittering, tits up is an exhibition of sculptural works that imagine structures for queer and multispecies intimacies. Playful reconfigurations of outdoor equipment such as tarpaulin, tentpoles, and trampolines offer refuge in their corrugations and curvatures.
Developed in response to wetland bird hides and other cruising sites, the exhibition takes an irreverent, ironic, and absurd approach to ecological relationships.
Bird hides, banksia trees, playgrounds, and underbellies of bridges facilitate encounters between a range of ecological beings from migratory birds to lovers (human and non-human).
From the artist:
“The exhibition builds on recent work interested in cruising locations as sites of queer and multispecies intimacies. Bird hides, banksia trees, playgrounds, and underbellies of bridges facilitate encounters between a range of ecological beings from migratory birds to lovers (human and non-human).
Backgrounded by the continual privatisation and domestication of both land and queer sexuality, these semi-private, semi-public sites offer structures for feeling (the breeze, the shade, a lover’s embrace, hope amongst *wildly gestures around* all of this).”
An accompanying essay by Tara Heffernan can be read here.
Image: Louis Lim
The artists
TIANA JEFFERIES
Tiana Jefferies is a Meanjin-based artist working predominantly in sculpture. Her interdisciplinary practice explores materials and structures that mediate human and non-human intimacies. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Queensland College of Art and a Master of Philosophy from the Queensland University of Technology.
She has exhibited in group and solo shows at Wreckers Artspace, The Walls, The Old Lock Up, Metro Arts and Outer Space. Residencies include those at Sculptors Queensland and most recently, Hope Street Studio facilitated by Griffith University Art Museum.
