Join us for the launch of the queer-art-history collective Kink‘s new website, the first online database showcasing the work of Australian LGBTQIA+ artists. Since 2019, Kink has been doing research— connecting with artists, curators, writers, and art historians; estates, arts institutions, and communities; across the continent—to establish a living archive of LGBTQIA+ arts practice. Launching with over 100 artists and with works from 1900 to now, their site seeks to represent the diversity and reach of queer Australian art. Kink members—Amelia Barikin, Courtney Coombs, Callum McGrath, Spiros Panigirakis, and Tim Riley Walsh—will discuss the collective’s origins, their ongoing research project, and the queer histories that have been brought to light along the way.
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Kink is a cross-disciplinary working group researching and formalising a history of queer Australian art. It currently comprises art historian Amelia Barikin, artist and facilitator Courtney Coombs, artist and researcher Callum McGrath, artist and educator Spiros Panigirakis, and art historian and curator Tim Riley Walsh.
