Artists in Conversation - de-centre re-centre

Join us for two panels to hear ­de-centre re-centre artists speak about their work.

Gerwyn Davies and Kyle Archie Knight talks with Brent Harrison, Assistant Curator, UWA Art Collection.

This will be followed by light refreshments then Torika Bolatgici will discuss her work with Lee Kinsella, Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art.

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Gerwyn Davies is a queer artist working across photography, costume, textiles and video, while living and working on both Gadigal and Yuin Country of Sydney and the South Coast of NSW. Gerwyn completed a PhD at the University of New South Wales (Art and Design) exploring the aesthetics of camp, photographic self-representation and the political potentials of queer in/visibility, and is represented by Jan Murphy Gallery Brisbane and Michael Reid Gallery Sydney/ Berlin.

Kyle Archie Knight is a Wiradjuri queer photographic artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Knight’s keen interest in the mundane and humdrum suburbia of Naarm resulted in his highly commended long-form and ongoing project, Cruising for a Bruising. In 2024 he was a creative resident at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), and his debut photobook, Cruising for a Bruising, was published in 2023 by M.33 and was subsequently shortlisted in the 2024 Australian and New Zealand Photobook Awards.

Torika Bolatagici is an artist, writer and academic working in photography, video, installation, publication, and curation. Torika’s multidisciplinary projects centre the counter-narrative of marginalised histories and knowledges through curatorial collaboration, symposia and public programming, such as the Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival Symposium, the Pacific Photobook Project and the Community Reading Room. Her work has been exhibited in public and private institutions in San Francisco, New York, Miami, Minneapolis, Taiwan, Mexico City, Yogyakarta and throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.

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Image Credit: Kyle Archie Knight,  Coca Cola #2 (detail), from Cruising for a Bruising, 2022, photographic print, 50 x 50 cm, courtesy of the artist