Abbra Kotlarczyk | Queer Australian Art

Abbra Kotlarczy, Bridge of słoma (straw) (before and after David Wojnarowicz), 2022, graphite on squeeze paper, dried native grasses, Melaleuca (paperbark) and Tasmanian oak, found rock, steri-prune paint and archival weights, dimensions variable.
Image courtesy of the artist.

Bio

Abbra Kotlarczyk was raised on Bundjalung Country in the subtropical ruins of a decommissioned banana plantation. She makes art, curates, reads, writes, edits, parents and gardens—sometimes all at once—in an attempt to outmanoeuvre the forces that pit us against enmeshment. Her creative practice aims to destabilise hierarchies of visual, linguistic and sensorial modes of relating, with her work often taking place trans-historically through expanded notions of care, labour, queerness, ecology, publication and embodied poetics. A poem of hers won the 2022 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize and in 2023 she was the recipient of the Footscray Art Prize Residency Artist Award.