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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We Don’t Need Another Hero, The Ladies of Colour Agency’s “Exotic Escape”

2011

Description

Captured in the exotic east to excite the intrigue of the civilised world, three deadly creatures pace their steel cages. The white man’s burden of taming the wild beasts has failed after much loss of blood and limb. Subsisting on a meager diet of white bread and leftovers, these exotic curios bide their time for the perfect escape… With fang, claw, cunning and rage, the creatures break out and unleash their lethal vengeance on their captors. Like a pestilence, their wrath shall spread across the civilised world, which lies trembling in the face of such peril.

The Ladies of Colour Agency are an anti-racist, feminists of colour burlesque and performance trio.
(from Texta Queen's website)

Medium

Fibre-tips and synthetic polymer paint on cotton paper

Dimensions

127 x 97cm

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