Trade Fair (Stud Master)
printed digital drawings hand-cut and collaged onto 210gsm Khadi paper
29.7cm x 42 cm
Trade Fair consists of phrases from a Brahman bull sale catalogue belonging to the artist’s family, hand-cut into digital illustrations of stereotypical cowboys surrounded by elaborately decorative designs rendered in the colours of the transgender pride flag. The slipperiness of the text’s meanings reveals queerness amidst familiar signifiers of rural and regional identity and masculinity.
printed digital drawings hand-cut and collaged onto 210gsm Khadi paper
29.7cm x 42 cm
Trade Fair consists of phrases from a Brahman bull sale catalogue belonging to the artist’s family, hand-cut into digital illustrations of stereotypical cowboys surrounded by elaborately decorative designs rendered in the colours of the transgender pride flag. The slipperiness of the text’s meanings reveals queerness amidst familiar signifiers of rural and regional identity and masculinity.
printed digital drawings hand-cut and collaged onto 210gsm Khadi paper
29.7cm x 42 cm
Trade Fair consists of phrases from a Brahman bull sale catalogue belonging to the artist’s family, hand-cut into digital illustrations of stereotypical cowboys surrounded by elaborately decorative designs rendered in the colours of the transgender pride flag. The slipperiness of the text’s meanings reveals queerness amidst familiar signifiers of rural and regional identity and masculinity.
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.
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