Friendship as a Way of Life (2020)

UNSW Galleries, Cnr Greens Rd & Oxford Sts, Paddington

May 8th - Nov 21, 2020

Friendship as a Way of Life 

explores queer kinship and forms of being together through archival material, film and contemporary works. It centres around three intersecting ideas that offer perspectives on partnerships, collaboration, visibility, sex, intimacy and knowledge: Public Relations, Living Arrangements, Intergenerational Kinship

Artists

ALOK, Mark Aguhar, Frances Barrett, Shannon Michael Cane, Elmgreen & Dragset, DJ Gemma, Camilo Godoy, Helen Grace, Gavin Kirkness and the Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt project, Dani Marti, Parallel Park (Holly Bates and Tayla Jay Haggarty), Nikos Pantazopoulos, Macon Reed, A.L. Steiner & A.K. Burns, Ella Sutherland and material from the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. 

Curators

José Da Silva, Kelly Doley

Media

Neha Kale: ‘Windows into an alternative world’, SMH, Thursday May 8, 2020

Helen Grace on art and friendship, Wednesday, May 13th - The Art Show - ABC Radio National

Stephen A Russell: ‘Get lost in Amazon Acres: a photographic snapshot of a ‘70s lesbian commune’ TimeOut, July 23rd, 2020

And awe was all that we could feel

This suite of prints, included in the Friendship as a Way of Life show, made from my original images taken at Amazon Acres between 1978 and 1980, has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales