Peter Waples-Crowe

Peter Waples-Crowe Group: Ngarigo Ngarigo Queen – Cloak of Queer Visibility, 2018 Possum pelts, waxed linen thread, leather dyes, pokerwork Dimensions: 380 x 129 cm Collection: Victorian Pride Centre

Bio

Peter Waples-Crowe (b. 1965) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersection of an Indigenous queer identity, spirituality, and Australia’s ongoing colonisation. Influenced by his adoption and a later reconnection with his Ngarigo heritage, Waples-Crowe’s art comments on the world as a contested site for his multiple identities. Referencing many disparate ideas and themes, his work is auto-ethnographic by nature, and largely based on personal experiences. Works are held in the permanent collection of the Pride Centre Victoria, Melbourne; Australian Centre of the Moving Image, Melbourne; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; State Library of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat; Moreland City Council, Melbourne; Manningham City Council, Melbourne; City of Darebin, Melbourne; Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne; University of Wollongong, Wollongong; and private collections in Australia, Taiwan, Canada, United States of America and England.