TextaQueen
TextaQueen is known for using the humble fibre-tip marker to draw out complex politics of gender, race, sexuality and identity in detailed portraiture. TextaQueen’s focus is in unweaving the impact of cultural and colonial legacies, while exploring the influences of visual and popular culture on personal identity.
TextaQueen is known for using the humble fibre-tip marker to draw out complex politics of gender, race, sexuality and identity in detailed portraiture. TextaQueen’s focus is in unweaving the impact of cultural and colonial legacies, while exploring the influences of visual and popular culture on personal identity.
Whether created in collaborative processes with other ‘othered’, displaced and diasporic people, or via examination of their own existence as a person of Goan Indian origin living on others’ ancestral lands, their work champions those not often represented in states of empowerment.
Showing wildly and widely, from bedroom shrines to acronymed white walls, TextaQueen’s work has appeared at Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Western Exhibitions, Chicago; and Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany. A mid-career survey exhibition was held at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and toured nationally in 2017. Their work is held in collections such as NGV, Heide, MUMA, University of Queensland, Art Gallery of Western Australia, and the National Portrait Gallery of Australia.
