Impasse
1994
Kaye Shumack
(artist)
Kaye Shumack
She/Her
Born in New South Wales, Australia.
Bio
Kaye Shumack (b. 1953–2021) was an artist predominately known her street posters and photographs in the 1990s that were heavily influenced by the 1960s pop culture of Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Lou Reed and Paul Morrissey. In 1996 Shumack’s ‘The Hard Ground Posters’ were distributed to Sydney’s inner-city Italian Cafe’s in what she described as relating to the idea of ‘latte lesbians’. Shumack’s provocative billboard poster that depicted hip and powerful lesbian women was ripped down by vandals after only two weeks of greeting traffic. Shumack made multiple posters and images for Mardi Gras parades in the 1990s. Shumack exhibited work alongside other prominent queer artists in the group shows ‘Photosynthesis’ and ‘Queerography’ (1994) at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.
Based in
Gadigal (Sydney), New South Wales, Australia