Callum McGrath | Queer Australian Art

Callum McGrath, *Responsibilities to Time*, (2019- 2022), digital prints on metallic paper. 30x42cm, Exhibited in 'Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art' Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane.
Image courtesy of the artist.

Bio

Callum McGrath (b.1995) is an artist and researcher based in Naarm/Melbourne. McGrath’s desire to make and research stems from an interest in rearticulating and challenging dominant models and institutionalised aesthetics of historiography and archiving. McGrath’s research engages with underrepresented and undocumented aspects of queer history, by reimagining these pasts via an idiosyncratic and unconventional approach to image-based forms.

McGrath’s practice rearticulates institutionalised aesthetics of historiography, memorials, and archiving. Among his recent exhibitions include; The Party, UNSW Galleries, Sydney (2023); Embodied Knowledge, Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2022); The Weatherman, Metro Arts, Brisbane (2021); The Gay Agenda, The Walls, Gold Coast (2021); To Resound, Unbound, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2021); and Deviations, Brisbane Art and Design Festival (2021). In 2022 McGrath curated a cinema program titled In Queer Time at the Australian Cinémathèque at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. McGrath is also a founding contributor to KINK, a collective researching a history of queer Australian art. McGrath is currently a PhD candidate at Monash Art Design and Architecture, Monash University.