Image: Mel Deerson and Briony Galligan, After Tsarouchis, An angel with his boots, drawing, 2022
GALLERY TWO | MEL DEERSON & BRIONY GALLIGAN
THE QUESTION OF ANGELS
FRI 23 SEP 9.00AM - FRI 21 OCT 5.30PM
OPENING EVENT 30 SEP, 5.30-8.00PM
FREE TO ATTEND
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Monday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday 10.00am - 3.00pm
Sunday closed
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
Please note, Platform Arts is a dry venue.
“I’m thinking about being queer and how that was invisible for me for a long time but still probably there, and what does it mean to have an invisible thing beside you or inside you like a soul or desire, and what interferes with its messages and how does it transmit within or through or to me or others. What is the difference between being transparent and being immaterial and how does this relate to my sneaky avoidant tendencies and comfort in being alone and therefore unobserved… How does this relate to obedience or lack thereof, when you commit your sins invisibly? This is on my mind.”
Mel Deerson and Briony Galligan are using Gallery Two as a residency space to develop new work and a reader alongside several workshops. During this time they will be asking: can an angel be queer? Can immaterial bodies misbehave? They are thinking through angels as immaterial messengers for gods or authorities. Yet what happens when angels express their own desires? What is that world like? Where can they be found around Geelong?
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Mel Deerson and Briony Galligan live on Wurundjeri Country and are visual artists and art school teachers at Monash and VCA. They often work with drawing, installation and performance and have presented work at Bargoonga Njangin Library, North Fitzroy, Naarm/Melbourne, Gertrude Contemporary and at Melbourne Art Theatre. They are developing a new project through Platform LAB in Geelong, Wadawurrung Country across 2022 and early 2023.
