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Queer-oglyphs and a genderf ck colour palette feature in an installation designed by Adam Nathaniel Furman and Australian practice Sibling Architecture as part of the National Gallery of Victoria s NGV Triennial.
Called Boudoir Babylon, the project celebrates queer aesthetics through a series of painted plywood volumes in NGV s Gallery Kitchen, which create different spaces for gathering and socialising.
Although the design incorporates stereotypically gendered colours such as baby blue and pink, these are recontextualised and subverted to challenge traditional notions of what is male or female. This is known in the LGBTQ+ community as a genderf ck .
Boudoir Babylon is made from painted plywood volumes
Last modified on Fri 18 Dec 2020 05.54 EST
Susie Gillespie at the loom in her Devon workshop Photograph: Jeremy Walker/Jeremy walker
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In February, about four weeks before lockdown, I attended a five-day course in weaving linen run by textile artist Susie Gillespie. Held at a farm near Totnes where they grow their own flax, we flayed, spun, dyed with natural dyes, and then wove a piece of cloth, all in five days. It was incredibly fulfilling, calming, meditative, quiet but also communal, with eight of us all working together but with entirely different interests, aesthetics and skills. Wonderful.
Melbourne artists bridge cultures at the NGV Triennial
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Not just the border between two Australian states, the mighty Murray is now the threshold we cross entering the National Gallery of Victoria. The river flows on the interior of the NGVâs iconic water wall. Indigenous artist Glenda Nicholls has recreated a metaphoric Murray made from thousands of hand-woven knots. Adorning the undulating 16m net are hundreds of hand-made feather flowers, crafted from a mix of bird feathers dyed and accented with dark emu feathers.