About this Event
Join exhibition co-curator, Dominic Guerrera, in conversation with Ngarigo artist Peter Waples-Crowe about his first major presentation in South Australia, PRIDE.
Peter will be joined by PRIDE mentee artists: Alfred Lowe, Tyberius Larking and Jayda Wilson.
An unapologetic celebration, PRIDE brings Aboriginal queer visibility to the fore and highlights Peter’s dedication to community.
We are happy to book an Auslan interpreter if needed – please reach out to [email protected] if you would like to make a request (two weeks notice required).
About the artists
Peter Waples-Crowe is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersection of an Indigenous queer identity, spirituality and Australia’s ongoing colonisation. Influenced by his adoption and a later reconnection with his Ngarigo heritage, Waples-Crowe’s art comments on the world as a contested site for his multiple identities. Referencing many disparate ideas and themes, his work is auto-ethnographic by nature, and largely based on personal experiences.
Tyberius Larking is a Mirning and South Asian poet and illustrator working on Kaurna Yarta. Butterflies recur as a motif in most of his written and visual works, serving as an electric emblem of queer variety, change and category contravention. For Larking, who identifies as transgender, pride is a principal need attained through personal agency and the sanctuary of human connection. When pride is scarce or endangered, Larking turns to his creative practice to replenish reserves.
Alfred Lowe is an Arrernte person from Snake Well in the Central Desert, north of Alice Springs. Central Australia is a politically and racially charged region, and this has fuelled Lowe’s keen interest in politics and racial justice – in particular, how culture and identity are navigated and manifested in modern times. Lowe uses clay to explore themes of Country, using form and texture informed by his intimate knowledge of the Central Desert landscape. He hand-builds forms, creating organic vessels, and applies glazes and a range of mark-making to the surface.
Jayda Wilson is an emerging contemporary artist of Gugada, Wirangu and Thai descent living and working on unceded Kaurna Yarta. Wilson's current work focuses on the connection between language and identity as they ground themselves culturally and affirm sovereignty through Gugada and Wirangu wangga, located on the Far West of South Australia. Wilson's multidisciplinary practice documents their journey to reclaim language through celebrating the nuances of First Nations languages, and expressing individuality within Aboriginality. Their work is a presentation of the way in which they embody language and navigate learning their mothertongue through an imposed colonial system. Through this learning, Wilson creates a visual and oral archive of Gugada and Wirangu wangga.
Hero Image: Peter Waples-Crowe. Photography by Joseph Mayers. Courtesy the artist.
Images 2-4: Mentee artist headshots for Peter Waples-Crowe: PRIDE (2023). Photography by Jonathan van der Knaap. Courtesy Adelaide Contemporary Experimental.
Peter Waples-Crowe: PRIDE is presented as part of Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art.
This project is supported by the City of Adelaide.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, Lion Arts Centre, Adelaide, Australia
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