Hell Bent (1)
Synthetic polymer paint on mdf and timber with synthetic fringing
70cm x 55cm
Constructed like small stages, Hellbent resemble miniature monuments to the camp performativity that Dunne perceives in both the elaborate rituals of Catholic mass and in typically rural forms of sport and entertainment including bull and bronco riding, both part of the artist’s childhood.
Please email admin@outerspacebrisbane.org if you’d like to arrange shipping outside of Meanjin/Brisbane.
Synthetic polymer paint on mdf and timber with synthetic fringing
70cm x 55cm
Constructed like small stages, Hellbent resemble miniature monuments to the camp performativity that Dunne perceives in both the elaborate rituals of Catholic mass and in typically rural forms of sport and entertainment including bull and bronco riding, both part of the artist’s childhood.
Please email admin@outerspacebrisbane.org if you’d like to arrange shipping outside of Meanjin/Brisbane.
Synthetic polymer paint on mdf and timber with synthetic fringing
70cm x 55cm
Constructed like small stages, Hellbent resemble miniature monuments to the camp performativity that Dunne perceives in both the elaborate rituals of Catholic mass and in typically rural forms of sport and entertainment including bull and bronco riding, both part of the artist’s childhood.
Please email admin@outerspacebrisbane.org if you’d like to arrange shipping outside of Meanjin/Brisbane.
Easton Dunne (they/them) is a queer, transgender and non-binary artist who lives on Darumbal Country in Rockhampton, Central Queensland. They make work exploring queer visual narratives within rural and regional contexts, often through an autobiographical lens, utilising drawing, collage, sculpture and installation.
With a focus on materiality, symbolism and playful camp aesthetics, Dunne mines the matter of everyday regional life for glimmers of queerness, seeking to reveal, recontextualise, and recode the familiar as queer. Their work resists and reframes the hyper-masculine narrative of their hometown being the self-proclaimed “beef capital of Australia” as offering the potential for an alternate queer utopia in this regional location.
Dunne is an artist, arts worker and arts educator who has exhibited widely and won awards for their work. They completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at QCA in 2012 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education at QUT in 2014.
@easton_artist