EROS: A Queer Art Showcase
Description
EROS is a Valentine's Day art showcase highlighting female, trans, and POC creatives in Meanjin, with 50% of all profit being donated to the LGBTI Legal Service!
EVENT DETAILS
Date: 14/02/2026
Time: 5:00pm-10:00pm
Venue: Vulcana Studios (420 Lytton Road, Morningside, QLD, 4170)
Ticket Price: pay-what-you-can ($10 minimum; please note that tickets are available at the door starting from $20)
WHAT TO EXPECT
queer, trans, and POC art at the forefront!
Visual Artists:
Mother Gore (Nikhita)
GROUNDLICKER (Harley Newton Cash)
Lilith
Hannah O'Shea-Breed
Vanessa
Max Alverson
Arianna Nixon
Tangles Dwyer
Lily-Rose Fuchsenthaler
Preston "Guppy" Saunders
Eli Hinton
Coco
Luna Cat
Merv Ambrose
Set Line-Up:
5:15pm: Lisa No Licence (opening words & 'Bad Touch')
5:35pm: Plum Cherry
6:00pm: Token of Spite
6:30pm: Artist Panel
7:05pm: Lisa No License ('Red Wine Supernova')
7:20pm: MJ O'Neill
8:15pm: Malithi
8:40pm: HER
9:30pm: Lisa No Licence ('Disco Tits' & closing words)
Activations:
live poetry writing by Lilith
nail bar by Eddie
a bar with yummy drinks
artist merchandise
Max Alverson
Preston "Guppy" Saunders
Eli Hinton
Coco
Merv Ambrose
Hannah O'Shea Breed
a raffle featuring prizes from our incredible artists
Mother Gore
Maiko Jewellery
PROFIT DISTRIBUTION
We aim to be completely transparent in where your money goes! 50% of the profit from this event shall be donated to the LGBTI Legal Service, with the other 50% being split between our artists as profit share.
THE LGBTI LEGAL SERVICE
The LGBTI Legal Service is a non-profit community legal service that was launched in 2010 by the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG. The Service recognises the difficulties faced by the LGBTQIA+ community and strives to provide access to justice and legal assistance to all Queenslanders within the LGBTQIA+ community. The Service also endeavours to regularly provide community and legal education activities and resources in order to increase awareness of legal rights and issues relating to the LGBTQIA+ community in Queensland. The Service includes a Law Reform division, which is actively involved in advocating for law reform and human rights affecting the LGBTQIA+ community.
To find our more, please visit the LGBTI Legal Service's website at https://lgbtilegalservice.org.au/
Lineup
Mother Gore (Nikhita) - they/them
Mother Gore (aka Nikhita) is a Magandjin based artist inspired by the use of DIY and punk elements to subvert expectations. Their designs are weird and bold, often linking to personal experiences including the body and identity. They have a passion for slow creating techniques such as beading and crocheting, creating unique pieces of art; stitch by stitch, brush stroke by brush stroke. Follow Mother Gore on Instagram: @gorewhorebrand
GROUNDLICKER (Harley Newton Cash) - he/it
Harley Newton Cash is GROUNDLICKER, a multi-media artist working in Meanjin, Queensland. Inspired by horror movies, internet culture, and informed by its experiences as a mentally ill queer person, Harley uses a mix of grotesque and humorous as a backboard for self-expression and reflection on the landscape of the current world. Follow GROUNDLICKER on Instagram: @groundlick.er
Lilith - she/her/them
Lilith is a poet and artist creating on Meanjin land. Lilith enjoys painting beautiful chaos using vivid colors. She loves transmuting her emotions into art for people to witness and connect with. Some artworks come to them in dreams! Some are inspired by beautiful words or big feelings! Similarly, for this event, Lilith will conjure poetry and stories from the depths for you to take home, using prompts and ideas given by you! Follow Lilith on Instagram: @kosmickink
Hannah O'Shea-Breed - she/her
Hannah O’Shea-Breed is a queer/disabled artist and photographer whose work spans a variety of mediums and genres, including photography, digital art and printmaking. Often showcasing high-contrast, theatrical imagery, reflecting her experience in theatre, art and editorial education, informing a varied and practice exploring subculture, queerness and the turbulent coexistence of isolation and community in her experience as a young creative in an ever-changing field. Follow Hannah on Instagram: @hannah_oshea_breed_artist
Vanessa - she/her
Vanessa is an artist and jewellery maker based in Brisbane/Meanjin. Her label, ‘ness.etc’ began as a creative outlet to experiment with different forms of wearable art. She uses a combination of techniques including beading, wirework and sculpting to create dreamy & experimental jewellery with a slight edge. Every piece is handcrafted using high quality materials like stainless steel, glass, and natural stones. For this showcase, she is crafting pieces that explore themes of romance, femininity, and sensual connection. Follow Vanessa on Instagram: @ness_etc
Max Alverson - he/they
Max Alverson is an emerging artist working within Toowoomba Queensland and studying Visual Arts. He is passionate about investigating the self and others, human connectedness, and relationships. Simultaneously, they typically examine topics such gender and sexuality, drawing from their own identity and experiences. Follow Max on Instagram: @max.alverson
Arianna Nixon - she/her
Arianna Nixon is a visual artist and activist from Magan-djin (Brisbane) exploring visual culture, gender, and cultural dissonance. Her work extends Situationist détournement through degradation, layering, and distortion that exhausts imagery through overstimulation, exposing the accumulation of systematic violence against trans communities through pressure and attrition. Follow Arianna on Instagram: @lavender_nixon
Tangles Dwyer - they/them
Tangles Dwyer is an emerging artist based in Meanjin, driven by tactile exchange. Their work explores fetishism and kink as spaces of power, intimacy and transformation. Dwyer’s practice navigates the charged space between discomfort and care, inviting proximity and reflection, implicating the viewer into the power dynamics being explored. Follow Tangles on Instagram: @highkey_tangles
Lily-Rose Fuchenthaler - she/her
Lily-Rose Fuchsenthaler is a trans woman, artist, explorer, and awe-hunter. Her work lives in the thresholds between collapse and creation, despair and beauty, the physical and the virtual. She explores what it means to be alive in the colliding realms of dreams and reality, technology and nature, fear and hope. Her practice fuses critical writing intertwined with personal myth; poetry tangled with memory and data; political anger mutating into art in which beauty stands as rebellion, vulnerability as resistance, presence as radical and error as a sacred act of creation. Follow Lily-Rose on Instagram: @gh0st.inur_m4ch1ne
Preston "Guppy" Saunders - they/she
Guppy is a rising star in the Australian art scene. Their work is a visual representation of the neurodivergent experience. Characterised by bold colours, obsessive mark making and recurring themes of skeletons, distortion and dream-like surrealism, Guppy speaks to the autistic experience in ways words cannot touch. Follow Guppy on Instagram: @guppy.rt
Eli Hinton - they/them
Eli is a local queer artist based between Meanjin and Tulmur. Their work often reflects their experiences as a genderqueer individual and is often heavily influenced by themes of nostalgia, dream-like imagery and floriography to create works rich in symbolism. Eli uses a lot of recycled fabrics like doilys, lace and satin in their work to create interesting textures and provoke feelings of intimacy and softness, contrasting with the often heartfelt artworks painted or embroidered on top. Follow Eli on Instagram: @stiotyv
Coco - she/her
Coco is a local painter, sculptor, and installation artist whose works create feelings of wonder, awe-inspiring & ethereal beauty. Their work focuses on themes of femininity, growth and nature through colourful landscapes and botanical elements. Follow Coco on Instagram: @follecoconut
Luna Cat
Luna Cat is a multi-disciplinary artist inspired by love, bodies, harmony, and beautifully raw moments. Cat's work lingers in glances, in softness, in the spaces where we feel loved, capturing beauty not as perfection, but as presence. With an intuitive and organic approach, Luna Cat captures moments that honour intimacy, celebrate difference, and quietly resist erasure. Their work is a love letter to the uniqueness of queer lives, affirming that to witness and to be witnessed is, in itself, an act of radical love. Follow Luna Cat on Instagram: @iam.lunacat
Merv Ambrose
Merv Ambrose is an emerging artist currently attending QCAD. With a strong focus on printed and drawn works as well as painting, Merv explores concepts of identity through figuration and medium interactions. As a non-binary queer artist raised overseas (mostly in Asia) Merv’s work serves as a vessel for the reconciliation and articulation of the intersections of their multi-cultural upbringing and identity. Follow Merv on Instagram: @mervtheartist
Lisa No Licence
Ex-Jester to the King, current headache to the public. Lisa is here to serve silliness, shenanigans, and absolute fun! The girl’s got no licence to drive but a licence to entertain. Jester? I hardly know her! ITS LISA NO LICENCE!! Follow Lisa on Instagram: @lisanolicence
HER - they/she
HER represents the euphoria of accidents, randomness, chaos. Beats only heard once and never again, a hyper-reality of femcee one-liners and pitched pop gibberish. Follow HER on Instagram: @girl.im.her
MJ O'Neill - she/her
MJ O’Neill is a prolific Magandjin-based music-maker counted among her country’s most accomplished electronic producers and composers - her work has soundtracked award-winning videogames, been streamed over 100,000 times worldwide, and aired across both NTS and NPR radio and clubs in Rotterdam, Glasgow, and Berlin. Follow MJ on Instagram: @mjoneillchwon
Malithi Weragama - she/her
Malithi is a multidisciplinary performance artist, drawing inspiration from her experiences as a queer, disabled, woman of colour residing in Meanjin, offering hope for those that might be in a similar position. Malithi first fell in love with burlesque through a university club, and she’s a fierce advocate for the art form’s expression, body-positivity, and flirtatiousness! Follow Malithi on Instagram: @malithiiiii_
Siobhan Patton (Plum Cherry) - she/her
Siobhan (a.k.a Plum Cherry) is a trans sapphic poet and all round nuisance who uses humour and depth to explore all types of issues, ranging anywhere from complex trauma to Bunnings Warehouse. Come along and she'll bring you on a journey wherever wonderful spot she pleases, mostly depending on what she had for breakfast. Follow Siobhan on Instagram: @plumcherryyy
Token of Spite (Freya) - she/her
Token of Spite is a ritual of sonic erasure from Casey Johnson (Freya). Strangled riffs and relentless guitar feedback conspire to force the listener into the raw, unavoidable present. Follow Freya on Instagram: @freya_duo
Maiko Jewellery
Maiko Jewellery is a Meanjin based label focused on making sustainable, archival, one-of-a-kind pieces from locally sourced and repurposed materials. Best known for statement pieces like their clock face necklaces, Maiko Jewellery offers commissions where you can bring your own creative vision to life.
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