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Images, clockwise from left: (1) Celestial, Zoë Bastin, commissioned by Platform Arts, 2024. (2) Martin Boyd, Untitled series, watercolour and pencil on paper, 1962, courtesy of Monash University Collection, Naarm/Melbourne. Donated by Carrillo Gantner through the Australian Government's Cultural Gift Program, 2015. (3) Fairy, curated by Briony Galligan and Spiros Panigirakis, Gallery One, Platform Arts, 2024. (3) Spiros Panigirakis, (detail of) Fairy library, MDF and kiln dried hardwood, 2012/2024. (4) Padraig Robinson,  (detail of) A Faggot is a Unit, studio prototype, 2023. Photos Leiko Lopez.


Fairy

06 APR—17 MAY ‘24 Ari Angkasa, Manisha Anjali, Martin Boyd, Mel Deerson and Briony Galligan, Jeremy Eaton, Mathew Jones, Luca Lana, Danni McGrath, Spiros Panigirakis and Peter Waples-Crowe.

FAIRY is an exhibition that envisages queerness as a slippery spirit that is hard to pin down. How do queerness and desire become visible? What are the possibilities and limitations of this? FAIRY plays out material and intangible ways queers circulate, contest and collect together. 

  1. Fairy
  2. A Faggot is a Unit
  3. Celestial
  4. Masquerades of Research + Q&A
  5. Speaker’s Corner
  6. Nitrate Kisses (1992)



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Platform Arts
On Wadawurrung Country
60 Little Malop St 
Djilang/Geelong VIC 3220
P: (03) 5224 2815 
M: 0467 094 597
E: hello@platformarts.org.au


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Office hours: Tuesday to Friday / 9.30AM—4.30PM
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday / 10.00AM—4.00PM

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Platform Arts, based on Wadawurrung Country in Djilang/Geelong, focuses on the development of artistic practice and ideas, leading to the presentation of these ideas as contemporary arts experiences. We curate a multi-artform program of exhibitions, performances, publications and events that respond to themes and provocations we believe are urgent for our times. Learn more

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