Queer Australian Art and KINK acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of the lands and waters of this continent. KINK conducts its work on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation in Naarm Melbourne, the Turrbal and Jagera peoples in Meanjin Brisbane and the Gadigal lands of the Eora Nation, Sydney. We pay respect to elders past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

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Don't Forget to Remember by Amelia Barikin, Courtney Coombs, Callum McGrath, Spiros Panigirakis, and Tim Riley Walsh, published 02.05.2024

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Jane Trengove

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Born in Naarm (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia.
Jane Trengove, Sex Fluffies, 1996, Small text boards, mixed craft materials; feather down, wool, one wooden bead and one latex glove
Image courtesy of Jane Trengove.

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Jane Trengove (b. 1953) is a disabled artist living and working in Narrm/Melbourne on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung First Peoples. Trengove’s visual art practice is multi-disciplinary and she has extensive skills in the coordination/curation of visual arts, project development, production, and arts administration. Trengove’s work often contests the relevance of contemporary art in wider social/political debates, such as gender, sexuality, race, and disability. Trengove engages ideas of perception and the primacy of sight, with an interest in the way cultural meanings are affected by the way we ‘see’, and how representation can be used to interrogate these meanings. She has exhibited widely, including locally, interstate and overseas and is currently represented by Sutton Gallery, Melbourne. To support her visual arts career Trengove has been employed across a range of professional platforms, and has worked closely with government, arts industry, and community organizations to increase the participation of Deaf and disabled people in cultural life of Australia. Recent projects include: Other Body Knowledge: Contending with the mythic norm, KINGS Artist Run Space, Melbourne (2022, artist/co-curator with Katie Ryan); S/He, Australian Catholic University Gallery, Melbourne (2022, collaboration with Susan Long for Midsumma Melbourne); XXX: Celebrating 30 Years of Sutton Gallery, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne (2022); Ceci n’est pas, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne (2019); and Fem-A-Finity NETS touring show (2019–22, curated by Catherine Bell). Other projects related to LGBTQI+ include: Microfiction, Performance Space, Sydney (2002, a collaboration with Susan Long for Flaming Muses, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras); SLIT!, Gertrude Contemporary (2000, a collaboration with Susan Long for Midsumma Melbourne); Sex Fluffies, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (1997, for Juice, curated by Wayne Tunnicliffe, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras); and Tender Buttons, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (1993, curated by Juliana Engberg for the E-sensual Fragments series).

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