MIXED SIGNALS - July-September 2023, Grafton regional Gallery
IF YOU’re HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT
2022
170cm x 121cm
Quilting cotton, bamboo cotton batting, embroidery thread.
There is a glitch in the rainbow flag. I am a proud queer man, but why does wearing that label still feel uncomfortable? Is the label for, me or just so I can be defined and ‘othered’ by someone else? The LGBTQIA+ community is not a monolith. We are a collection of individuals, each of us beyond a single label and together greater than the sum of it’s many-coloured parts.