Queer Spritz

Frances Barrett (b. 1983) is an artist who lives and works in Narrm Melbourne, whose recent work pivots around the modalities of listening and vocality. Barrett's projects take the form of immersive sound installation, live performances and video installation. Such projects include: *Cry* for *The National 4: Australian Art Now*, Carriageworks, 2023; *Meatus*, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2022; and *All Ears: A Listening Party*, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, 2018. In 2019 Barrett was one of the recipients of Suspended Moment: The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship, a unique fellowship for women working across performance and installation. Barrett is one member of the collective Barbara Cleveland (with Diana Baker Smith, Kate Blackmore and Kelly Doley) who have presented projects at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Biennale of Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art and Hayward Gallery. In 2020 Barbara Cleveland presented their first survey exhibition, *Thinking Business*, at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Barrett was the Chair of the Curatorial Advisory Board for VERS: On Pleasures, Embodiment, Kinships, Fugitivity and Re/Organising, an event focused on queer practices presented by Monash University Museum of Art, Samstag Museum of Art and Ace Open. Barrett is currently a Lecturer in Fine Art at Monash Art Design and Architecture.

Kelly Doley (b. 1984) is a visual artist whose practice encompasses drawing, painting, performance, and curatorial projects. Through a queer and feminist lens Doley's work has focused on artistic labour, authorship, historiography, and embodiment. The artist's works often draw on a grunge aesthetic using everyday, overlooked, or discarded materials with an awareness of the physicality and performativity of painting itself. Doley is known for an unapologetic approach to exploring themes of gender identity, sexuality, consumerism and the environment. Doley is a founding member of Barbara Cleveland, an Australian artist collective with artists Diana Baker Smith, Frances Barrett and Kate Blackmore. The collective takes their name from a fictional feminist performance artist recovered from the margins of Australian art history, a figure who has featured in their work since 2010. Doley has been working on Gadigal land (Sydney) since the early 2000s, Doley was born in Naarm (Melbourne) and is of Scottish descent. Doley holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from UNSW and a Masters in Visual Art from University of Sydney. Doley's thesis explored the interconnections between performance and painting. In addition to formal training, Doley was taught from a young age the craft of signwriting by her father whose occupation was a commercial artist for TV and theatre. Doley is an Alumni of the Australia Council Arts Leaders Program (2016) and artist in residence at the NSW Creative Industry Residency Program, Museum of Art & Applied Sciences, Ultimo. Recently Doley has exhibited a commission *In Memory* at Bus Projects, *Thinking Business* at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery (touring nationally), *Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism* at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, MUMA’s *Art You Can Wear* project and created a collection for the NGV Design Store. Doley's works are held in various collections including the ABC, Sheila Foundation, Artbank, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Gallery of NSW.