Arlene Textaqueen

Arlene TextaQueen (born 1975) is an Australian artist. They[lower-alpha 1] primarily work on paper with felt-tip marker pens commonly referred to as textas in Australia. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Western Australia (Perth) in 1995 and a Certificate in Interactive Multimedia from Metro Screen (Sydney) in 1998. TextaQueen lives in New York City and Carlton, Victoria,[4] and as of December 2018 works on Boon wurrung and Wurundjeri country.[1]

Work

TextaQueen exhibited TextaNudes, undressed portraits of women, queer, and trans performers, to positive reviews at Sullivan and Strumpf Fine Art in Sydney in March 2011.[5] Elizabeth Robinson of ArtWrite notes that TextaQueen "has found a way to take the texta out of kindergarten and into contemporary fine art".[6] Their work also appears in the National Gallery of Australia.[7]

TextaQueen's 2014 show Coconut Legacy "used tigers, coconuts and Allen's chocolate chico babies to map the conflict between white supremacy and their Goan-Indian heritage".[8] Their survey exhibition "Between You and Me" was on display at Benalla Art Gallery and Tweed Regional Gallery in 2017[9] and 2018.[10]

As of December 2017 TextaQueen was "creating a series of works about diversity, tokenism, and the experiences of ‘minority artists’ in the institutional arts complex".[10] They also hold drawing workshops for children and adults.[11]

They had a creative fellowship at the State Library of Victoria in which they drew on their own lived experiences, interviewed artists, and used the Library's political posters collection to produce a poster series addressing contemporary experiences of culturally diverse and otherwise marginalised artists.[12]

Their work has been highlighted in She Persists: Perspectives on Women in Art & Design published by the National Gallery of Victoria.[13]

Notes
  1. TextaQueen self-identifies with the pronouns they/them.[1][2][3]

References
  1. "About". TextaQueen. Archived from the original on 29 November 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  2. "TextaQueen". Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  3. "TextaQueen - About". Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  4. "Design & Art Australia Online". Arleen TextaQueen. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  5. Gall, Naomi. "TextaNudes: Arlene Textaqueen". Artlink. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  6. Robinson, Elizabeth (2011). "Arlene TextaQueen". ArtWrite (45): 44–45. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.474.2907.
  7. "Space Invaders: Arlene TextaQueen". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  8. Kale, Neha (28 November 2014). "Five Female Artists You Should Invest In Now". Daily Life. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  9. "TextaQueen: Between You and Me". Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  10. "On the Couch with TextaQueen". Arts Review. 8 December 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  11. "Info". TextaQueen. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  12. "TextaQueen". State Library Victoria. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  13. Megan Patty; Myles Russell-Cook; Annika Aitken; Maria Quirk, eds. (2020). She Persists. Melbourne, VIC. ISBN 978-1-925432-76-3. OCLC 1128178834.


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