My solo exhibition 'we/us/theirs/all' is on display at Incinerator Gallery in Victoria until the 13th June.
The gallery is accessible via ramp as well as elevator and there is seating if you need a rest in the space as well.
I hope you enjoy it 💚
@incinerator_gallery
Photography by Thomas McCammon
"Australian native black swans (Cygnus atratus) also form stable male-male pairs that last for many years. Gay swans may even raise offspring together as a couple. A female may temporarily associate with a male-male pair, mate with them, and leave her eggs with them.
The male couple then parents the eggs and is reported to be more successful than a male-female couple because together they access better nesting sites and territories, sharing the workload more equally than between-sex couples.
A full 80-percent of the gay couples successfully fledge their young, compared with 30 percent for straight couples."
(EN19) L.W. Braithwaite, 1981, Ecological studies of the black swan: III. Behavior and social organization, Australian Wildlife Research 8:135-46
Researchers from the University of Melbourne studied native black swans in Albert Park for 20 years and discovered 25-30% of cobs (male swans) were in same sex partnerships and pens (female swans) regularly gave up their eggs for these cob partners to raise.
The researchers documented that cygnets raised by same sex couplings had higher survival rates.
Here on the Gold Coast our native black swans face physical barriers, they are attacked and murdered. Not because people think they might be queer but because they simply exist.
We are not separate from nature, we are part of it.
PINK SWANS is documented using an IR converted camera using 550nm infrared photography to emulate the Kodak Aerochrome infrared film that historically was used for military surveillance and camouflage detection.
PINK SWANS captures local queer ecologies while drawing parallels to our own local queer histories here on the Gold Coast.
PINK SWANS is supported by Generate GC @generate_gc
Hope Catcher at Tropical Fruits!
Drop-in workshop, New Years Eve, 31st December, 10am-12pm in the Arts and Culture Tent
'Hope Catcher' is a collaborative fibre art sculpture where participants are invited to create handmade twine imbued with intentions and knot their twine onto the sculptural basket. This special purple 'Hope Catcher' is a vessel for collective hope created by and for the LGBTQIASB+ community.
I will be co-facilitating this drop-in workshop with my partner Lucas @texeredesigns , we look forward to creating with you and feel free to bring a friend! 🌈
@tropicalfruitsinc
'Hope Catcher' is a participatory fibre art sculpture that invites audiences to set an intention for themselves and community, create handmade twine and attach it with three knots. The twined basket becomes a gathering point for connection and a vessel for collective hope.
Thank you to @_softwash_ for having me and @gdocs.co for documentation
#Retritus
Thats a wrap on workshops for 2025! I did the math and thank you to all 620 people who attended a workshop this year, I really appreciated the opportunity to create with you all 🌿
Now taking bookings for 2026!
I was so excited this week to pick up my second bronze sculpture from @peridesartprojects who did such an incredible job casting the basket I wove during my residency at @artisanqld in July
Bronze
36cm x 28cm x 20cm
More on the work and exhibition at a later date...
#Retritus #Bronze #BronzeSculpture #Basketry #RandomWeave
It has been such a pleasure to work with clay more this year 🤎 thank you to everyone who has collected pieces over the past few months, it has been greatly appreciated
#Retritus #Pottery #HandBuilt
My first small sculpture cast in bronze! Standing 17cm tall I first wove a basket using cane that was then painted in bees wax, I used handmade twine to attach native beach hibiscus twigs as legs. The sculpture was cast at @peridesartprojects and it was and incredible experience to work with the team.
This was made possible through Regional Artisan Residency @artisanqld
#Retritus #BronzeSculpture
Hi there, I I have a bit of an unusual request.
I was recently reading about Rainbow Wool, a farm in Germany that adopts queer sheep. Statistics show that 1 in 12 sheep are same-sex attracted therefore don't perform well in usual commercial breeding programs and are often sent to the slaughter (a statistic backed by Oregon Health and Science University).
I am looking for wool in Australia that has come from sheep that have same-sex attraction or would be considered to have a gender variance (intersex) for a future art project. Does anyone have any sheep in their flock that might fit either of these descriptions? Im happy to buy entire fleeces even if they are partially felted in any fibre breed.
I initially posted this to a Raw Wool Facebook market place and you can imagine that the homophobia and transphobia went rife within the space of 5 minutes and the admin first locked comments and then deleted my post entirely. Before the post got deleted there was an ethologist in the comments confirming this statistic and also a farmer saying they had any intersex sheep in their flock.
People in the comments said same-sex attraction doesn't exist in the animal kingdom, people accused me of being a complete idiot thinking sheep could produce rainbow coloured fleece and people went as far to say that Germany is misleading foreigners and using the idea of 'gay sheep' as a leftist money grab (scientists have documented same-sex attraction in non-human animals in over 1500 species).
Im not super phased by these comments but thought I'd share with you just how homophobic people can still be over perfectly normal things that are backed by science.
This wool was dyed purple using cochineal and iron, a sheep did not grow purple wool 💜🐑
Thank you so very much to the UQ Finance Department for having me in today to teach cyanotype for a team building activity, it was great spending the afternoon creating with you 💙🌿
#Retritus #Cyanotype
