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Queer as Country 2020
Queer as Country 2020
Peter Waples-Crowe
Four pieces each measuring 30x30cm
Acrylic on stretched canvases
$3450
Artist Statement
Ngaya Queer. I am queer. I am Ngarigu. This work explores my identity as a queer Ngarigu person. My tribal name is Ngurran (Emu). This work is a self-portrait and includes an image of the high country, which is my Country.
Peter Waples-Crowe - Biography and Art CV Summary
Peter Waples-Crowe is a Ngarigo artist living in Melbourne. His intersecting experiences as an Aboriginal person and his work with community health and arts organisations give him a unique perspective as an artist and community cultural development worker. Waples-Crowe creates bold colourful work that explores the representation of Aboriginal people in popular culture, often referencing the dingo as a totemic figure and an analogy for queer, outsider Mob. Peter’s practice also consists of reworking of the colonial images from books and galleries print collections; diffracting the colonisers view of Aboriginal people with the mercurial wit of the constantly shifting negotiations of queer and black identities.
Peter has been a multiple finalist for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, the Victorian Indigenous Art award, and received the three major awards in its ten year history. In addition to a successful solo career including two group shows in 2016 and 2018 at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Peter is notable for his collaborations with other artists; performing with Anna Leibzeit and Kaz Adams as post-punk apocalyptic disco group The Treaters. He has undertaken collaborative works with non-Aboriginal artists, including Katie Jacobs and Ingrid Tufts for Dingo Spirit, which was a finalist in the 2017 Craft Victoria Awards, and also collaborated with multidisciplinary artist Megan Evans to produce an exhibition “Squatters and Savages” for the Ballarat and Benalla Regional Art Galleries in 2017 and 2018 respectively. In 2018 he was part of a Yirramboi exchange program which saw his art shown in the Pulima Indigenous arts festival in Taiwan.
His 2019 solo show, insideOUT featured an animation collaboration with Glynn Urquhart and a fashion collaboration with Vincent Li, a collaboration which first showed at the Business of Design Week in Hong Kong in 2018. InsideOUT was on show at the Koorie Heritage Trust and investigated the intersection of his queer and Ngarigo identities.
In 2019 Peter was awarded the Melbourne LGBTI Community GLOBE artist of the year award, won the 2D Metro Tunnel Prize at the Koorie Art Show, completed the Leadership Victoria LGBTIQ Leadership program and was featured in a short documentary called insideOUT that screened in Our Stories on NITV in December.
Exhibitions:
2020
Out is Out – group show - Whyndam Cultural Centre –Weribee
Venus in Thorns – group show – Trocadeo arts space –Footscray
Future Histories – group show – Hatch Contemporary Arts Space – Ivanhoe, Melbourne.
2019
Koorie Art Show – group show – Koorie Heritage Trust- Melbourne
Cirular- group show – group show – Blak Dot Gallery -Brunswick
BlakHEART Festival. Digital projections. Federation Square, Melbourne
Dapper – group show – Bundoora Homestead Art Gallery – Melbourne
Mardi Gras Show – group show – Boomalli Art Gallery - Sydney
insideOUT – solo show – Koorie Heritage Trust- Melbourne
Other Side: no trans Boundaries- group show- Yousuf Gallery-Cochin, India.
Queer Nations & Equal Love – group show – Project space, RMIT University – Melbourne
Climarte Poster Project – Street posters in Melbourne.
2018
WE ARE HERE – group show- State Library of Victoria
Black Magic – group show- Incinerator Gallery –Moonee Ponds
Mardi Gras show –group show – Boomalli Art Gallery- Sydney
Squatters and Savages – Solo and Collaborative – Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla Victoria and Blak Dot Gallery, Brunswick
A lightness of spirit is the measure of happiness – group show- Australian Centre for Contemporary art, Melbourne
Locked in – group show –Blak Dot Gallery - Melbourne Fringe Festival
Yirramboi at the Pulima Festival, Taiwan. – Featured artist- Museum of Contemporary art, Taipei.
Business of design week (Recognition fashion project) –Hong Kong
2017
Squatters and Savages – Gertrude Street Projection Festival
The Story So Far – Counihan Galllery - Brunswick
Squatters and Savages – Collaboration and solo- Ballarat art Gallery – Ballarat, Victoria.
Dirty Dingo –Solo –The dirty dozen @Campbell Arcade for Yirramboi-Melbourne
Transational – Group Show –Blak Dot Gallery –Brunswick East, Melbourne
Good Looking – Group Show- Boomalli Arts Cooperative -Sydney
Other Other – Group Show – Whyndam Cultural Centre –Weribee
Dhumbadha Munga Talking Knowledge – Alliance Francaise – St Kilda, Melbourne
2016
Sovereignty- Group Show – Australian Centre for Contemporary art –Melbourne
Koorie Art Show – Koorie Heritage Trust - Melbourne
I never painted my dreams: I painted my reality –Group Show –Kingston Arts – Moorabbin -Melbourne
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards Finalist Show - Darwin
Reframed- Incinerator Gallery -Melbourne
Loss with a Blue Vision. Chapter House lane Gallery-solo–Melbourne.
Dhumbadha Munga Talking Knowledge – Alliance Francaise – St Kilda, Melbourne
2015
Camp Dog Projections at the art bar –Museum of Contemporary Art - Sydney
Victorian Indigenous Art Awards Finalists show – Ballarat Regional Gallery
Both sides of the street – The Counihan Gallery in Brunswick - Melbourne
Two of a Kind – Bundoora Homestead Art Gallery - Melbourne
Moving on Up – Koorie Heritage Trust - Melbourne
2014
Notes to GB (Gordon Bennett) – Sutton Gallery – Fitzroy, Melbourne
Victorian Indigenous Art Awards Finalists show – Ballarat Regional Gallery
Outlaws (as the Treaters) –Visual and performance – Linden Contemporary art –St Kilda, Melbourne
Queerum: the 24hr experience – Performance – Carlton, Victoria
From Where I Stand: Place, Culture, Politics – Bunjilaka, Melbourne Museum
Public Posters in Various Bus Shelters in Monash City Council
Handprints – AIDS2014 global Village, Melbourne
Horizons – Bundoora Homestead Art Gallery – Melbourne
Healing ways: Art with Intent - The Dax Centre -The University of Melbourne
Tickin all the boxes – Beyond Blak – Substation art gallery – Newport Melbourne
18c - Blak Dot Gallery, Brunswick East Melbourne
Enlighten Festival- Electric Canvas Architectural Projections – Canberra
I got you under my skin - Blak Dot Gallery, Brunswick East Melbourne
Aburbanity – Koorie Heritage Trust – solo show
Dreaming Exhibition ‘“Lo Spirito Del’Arte Aborigina” – Group Show – Various locations in Italy
Prizes/awards/commissions:
2019 2D Metro Tunnel award. Koorie Art Show.
2017 Gertrude Street Projection Festival 10th Anniversary award for Squatters and Savages video projection
Finalist: Craft Awards, Craft Victoria.
2016 Finalist: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art awards
2015 Koorie Heritage trust 30th Anniversary art mentoring program.
Finalist and winner CAL Works on Paper Award – Victorian Indigenous art awards
Finalist and People’s Choice award – Wyndham Art Prize
2014 Finalist – Victorian Indigenous Art Awards
2013 CAL Works on Paper Award - Victorian Indigenous Art Awards
City of Melbourne Indigenous Arts Advisory Panel
2012 Arts Victoria Panel member - Community Partnerships
Commended – Cancer Council art awards 2012
2011 Pathways to Justice calendar - Cover Art – Victorian Department of Justice
Dr Ross Ingram memorial competition runner-up (Artwork) - Medical Journal of Australia.
2010 People’s Choice Award - Gumbri: White Dove. City of Darebin Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art award
2009 Koorie Heritage Trust Acquisition Award - Victorian Indigenous Art Awards 2009
Design for Hepatitis C poster – Hepatitis C Victoria
Design for Dual Diagnosis training manual - Department of Human Services
Media:
2019
InsideOUT. A short Documentary as part of Our Stories, NITV Dec.
Undiscovered. Art Collector#88. Apr-Jun. p124-125
InsideOUT. Catalogue. Koorie Heritage Trust. May 2019
Queer uses of colour: A tinted hermeneutics. Artlink. Issue 39:1. March 2019
2018
Layers of delight. Spectrum, The Age. Sat July 7th. p16-17
A lightness of spirit is the measure of happiness. Catalogue. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
The Age.
2017
Blak Critic’s Review: Dirty Dingo. SBS online 10 May 2017
I want to be a proud queer elder: Meet artist Peter Waples-Crowe. ABC News on line, Radio National. Fri 12 May 2017
The queer artist setting dingoes free. SBS online. 5 May 2017
2016
33rd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art awards catalogue 2016
Peter Waples-Crowe's 'auto-ethnographic' triptych to fill Chapter House Lane façade. The Age, Sydney Morning Herald 2nd Feb 2016
2015
Victorian Indigenous Art Awards catalogue 2015
2014
Peter Waples-Crowe: On being a queer, Indigenous Artist. Melbourne Community Voice. Issue 710 13 Aug 2014
Victorian Indigenous Art Awards catalogue 2014
Artlink Indigenous: Blackground Vol 34 no 2
2013 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards catalogue 2013
Victorian Indigenous Art Award Announced http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/news/visual-arts/victorian-indigenous-art-awards-announced-197228
Mothers portrait wins prize – the Age –Mon Nov 4 2013
ABC Radio Nation and SBS radio interviews about 2013 VIAA award
Cover of the Manningham Art Gallery 2013 Exhibition Calender
2012
ISIIAD Blog site http://www.isiiad.com.au/
2011
“Lo Spirito Del’Arte Aborigina” Catalogue
Dr Ross Ingram memorial competition runner-up (Artwork). Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 194 No 10.16 May 2011. p 540.
Peter Waples-Crowe Art. Etchings Indigenous: Treaty. 2011. Ilura Press Melbourne, Australia. Cover and pp 93-101.
Collections:
Works are held in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, the State Library of Victoria, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Moreland City Council (Melbourne) Manningham City Council (Melbourne), City of Darebin (Melbourne), Koorie Heritage Trust, University of Wollongong and private collections in Australia, Taiwan, Canada, United States of America and England.