Artists statement

'Rise and Fall' is a series of hybrid landscapes that meditates on the artist’s identity as a person of Goan Indian origin often living and creating on others’ ancestral lands. Created during residencies at Laughing Waters, Eltham on Wurundjeri country, and at Vytlacil in Upstate New York on Tappan land, these works meld the landscapes the artist witnessed with elements associated with their cultural heritage. These are allegorical meditations on how cultural identity informs experiences of place, and on the artist’s neo-colonial presence on Aboriginal land.

Artist Bio
TextaQueen is known for using the humble fibre-tip marker (aka ‘texta’) to draw out complex politics of gender, race, sexuality and identity in vividly detailed works on paper.

Creating in collaboration with other ‘other-ed’ people and via examining their own existence as a person of Indian origin living on others’ ancestral lands, TextaQueen re-frames subjective experiences into critiques of their broader structural contexts, centring representations of ‘marginalised’ identities in complicated states of empowerment.