The Huxleys: DisGraceland | Artist Talk

Have you got Suspicious Minds? 

Come and join visual artists The Huxleys as they discuss their exhibition DisGraceland. 

Chatting about their artistic process and their adventures creating queer wizardry to a disco beat.

Free event but ticketed (bookings required).

About

Will and Garrett Huxley (Aus/Yorta Yorta/Gumbaynggirr) are Melbourne-based collaborative performance and visual artists.

The Huxleys are a dynamic duo of cataclysmic proportion who present camp spectacle and disco enthused wizardry across the visual art, performance and entertainment sectors. Their photography and performance art traverses the classifications of costume, film and recording. A visual assault of sparkle, surrealism and the absurd, The Huxleys saturate their practice and projects with a glamorous, androgynous freedom which sets out to bring some escapism and magic to everyday life.

Since 2014 The Huxleys have performed, exhibited and participated in numerous exhibitions, projects and events in Australia, and internationally in London, Berlin, Moscow, New York and Hong Kong. Solo presentations, performances and commissions include the Melbourne International Arts Festival; Melbourne Fashion Week; Sydney Contemporary; Hong Kong Design Week; Heide Museum of Modern Art; Art Bank, Melbourne; NGV; AGNSW; QAGOMA; AGSA; AGWA; Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne; Sydney Festival; Carriageworks, Sydney; Sydney World Pride and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; The Huxleys first came to prominence during the early years of MONA FOMA and Dark Mofo in Tasmania.

The Huxleys photographs are included in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; HOTA, Gold Coast; State Library of Victoria, Melbourne and The Besen Foundation, Melbourne. The Huxleys have been finalists in the National Portrait Prize in both 2022 and 2023 and finalists in Bowness Prize 2022.

Accessibility

The Store is wheelchair accessible via a private side entrance. Gender-neutral and accessible toilets are available nearby.

This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, the City of Yarra, and Abbotsford ConventThe Huxleys are represented by Murray White Room, Melbourne.