Arlene TextaQueen – Social Engagement a new show of radical nudes

Description.SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT:
New work by Arlene TextaQueen featuring Textanudes of queer/radical/trans/burlesque performers from Sydney, New York, San Francisco, Montreal and Vancouver including CeliaCurtis, Annie Danger and Singing Sadie.

Opening features performance by featured portrait subject, Sydney’s one and only Singing Sadie.

@ Sullivan and Strumpf Fine Art
44 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW

Opening Thurs 6-8pm 29th April.
Exhibition runs until May 16th 2010.

Exhibition, Naked Landscapes of Victoria by Arlene Texta Queen opens Fri 13th Nov

For her latest drawing series, Naked Landscapes of Victoria, Arlene Texta Queen invited performative personalities to travel with her from Melbourne to locations of personal or cultural iconic significance within the state of Victoria. On individual camping trips in a custom painted 1977 Bedford van, women posed as nude re-interpretations of Australian cultural and historical identities within the landscape. They uncovered the true history of the Kelly Gang in the Warby Ranges. They exposed the legend of big cats in the Grampians. They sliced home-made cakes by a lake. And an octopus helped solve the mysterious disappearance of Harold Holt.

Arlene would like to thank all the marvelous models (Lou, Nat, Esther, Salote, Poss, Pash, Carla, Bec, Ginny, Jen Jen, Tara, Tallace, Trevor) for getting naked and chaos camping with her, battling lusty leeches, odd opshop ladies, failing headlights and other mechanical mayhem, helicopter surveillance, curious tourists, extreme weather conditions and most of all for putting up with her sense of humour.

Naked Landscapes of Victoria
By Arlene TextaQueen
@ Gallerysmith
170-174 Abbotsford St North Melbourne
opens Friday November 13th, 2009
6 – 8 pm

gallery hours Thursday, Friday 11-6
Saturday 11-4

preview if you must at
www.gallerysmith.com.au
runs til Dec 12th, 2009

Naked Landscapes of Victoria on TV

Early in 2008, Arlene Texta Queen travelled in a custom painted 1977 Bedford van around regional Victoria drawing around a dozen women and performers posed in interpretations of Australian history and culture. From a cake lady and her stall by a lake to Mary at the 12 Apostles to a feminist bushranger in Glenrowan, Claudia Rowe documented the adventures and has turned them into a doco that will be screened Sunday April 12th at 5pm on ABC Sunday Arts.

Watch Texta and her gal friends as they go leech loving, cake eating & bunyip cursed travels.

For those without a TV, you can watch it on the Sunday Arts website  soon after it airs on the tele.

Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009
Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: your TV

Comfortable: Textanudes by Arlene TextaQueen

An exhibition of Textanude works, mostly from Arlene’s travels in the USA and Canada in 2005-2007.

Wonderful women and queer performers in felt-tipped naked glory on paper on the walls of Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art in Paddington.

You may have seen some of the works before but I’ll also be releasing a new limited edition RZA print at the opening.  Exhibition runs from Mar 3rd to Mar 22nd, 2009

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 (opening nite)
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art
Street: 44 Gurner St, Paddington
City/Town: Sydney, Australia