soft tongues, gritted teeth

Artists: Jack Ball, Holly Bates, Hannah Brontë, Chelsea Farquhar, Claudia Nicholson, Lucy Whitelaw  

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.

Cover artwork: Jack Ball, Shower scenes 5, 2019, Inkjet print on rag, framed, Edition of 5, 70x93cm. Image courtesy the artist.