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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Keemon Williams

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Born in Meanjin (Brisbane), Queensland, Australia.
Keemon Williams, Self Portrait *(But I always wanted to be one of the Macho Men)*, 2023, digital print, 80cm x 120cm
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Keemon Williams (b. 1999) is a queer interdisciplinary Meanjin (Brisbane) based artist and curator of Koa, Kuku Yalanji and Meriam Mir descent. He utilizes a diverse range of mediums and performative elements to interrogate the relationships between location, personal histories and the manifestation of culture in a postcolonial world. His practice seeks to critically examine facets of his identity and its intrinsic tethering to the wider context of being “Australian.” Responding to realms of space and time, cultural production and psuedo-ethnic representations, Keemon views culture as an alloy, to be forged and adapted to find belonging within and beyond the self.

He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) from QUT, where he received the Hilde Chenhall Memorial Scholarship for Visual Art, and was selected for the 2020 edition of Hatched National Graduate Exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Keemon is also a founding member of ANTHEM ARI, an independent group dedicated to the celebration of BIPOC voices in the arts.

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Kuku Yalanji
Meriam Mir

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Meanjin (Brisbane), Queensland, Australia

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