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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Sarah Poulgrain

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Born in Gurrumbilbarra (Townsville), Queensland, Australia.
Sarah Poulgrain and Dana Lawrie, Dream boat: sunlight and leadlight (detail), 2022 Installation view, Outer Space, Brisbane, leadlight, steel studs, solar panel, battery, LED light, chain.
Image courtesy of the artists.

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Sarah Poulgrain's (b. 1992) practice draws on self-sustainability and artist-led pedagogy to expand what art institutions can do. Though Poulgrain produces sculptures, their practice is primarily concerned with building and sustaining respectful and non-hierarchical relationships. Poulgrain learns a new skill (usually through interest-specific community groups), documenting the process and re-teaching the skill to others. Their practice aims to facilitate a model of knowledge sharing that disrupts power dynamics and prioritises vulnerability and trust. In the series of works, A set of new skills, Poulgrain has taught weaving, welding, chair making, hat making, and aluminium casting, with accompanying exhibition outcomes.

Poulgrain is currently in the process of building a pontoon houseboat: a roofed structure on a pontoon base that will serve as both an art space and a space for Poulgrain to live. This iterative project engages boat-builders, lead-light-makers, contemporary artists, ecologists, and people currently living on houseboats. The aim of this project is to create a climate and gentrification resilient ARI for Meanjin experimental art, untying the contingency of art spaces on real estate rental markets.

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Meanjin (Brisbane), Queensland, Australia

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Further reading: "Confluence"

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