ALL WELCOME

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2021.

This was a collaborative work with QAGOMA’s Children’s Art Centre. It celebrates diversity and inclusion and the importance of collaboration and community. Children and their families could engage with these themes through installations, hands-on making, and interactive digital media. Children and families could continue the fun at home with activities and videos on the QAGOMA website.

All Welcome was commissioned for QAGOMA’s APT10 Kids with support from the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation.

This work formed part of the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10). The photos of all work at QAGOMA were commissioned for APT10. Images courtesy Queensland Art Gallery l Gallery of Modern Art. Photography: Katie Bennett, Chloe Callistemon, Merinda Campbell, Marc Grimwade, Joe Ruckli, and Lee Wilkes.

OUR SPACE

Through colour, shape, and sound, this work creates a welcoming and safe space for children to express who they are and what makes them happy.

CELEBRATE YOU

This is an interactive work where people can create their own flag from a library of shapes and colours. It was available onsite at QAGOMA through interactive touch screens and online through the QAGOMA website. When people completed their flag they could save and share this work to a world map showing a meta-view of all flags created to date worldwide.

IN THIS TOGETHER

This was an interactive work celebrating the positive work being done in the field of diversity and inclusion for children. It was made of rotating mirror balls, mirrored walls, and a music playlist of uplifting songs curated by QAGOMA’s Children’s Art Centre. All were welcome to dance in this space.

OUR YOUTH

This is a video work developed in collaboration with QAGOMA’s Children’s Art Centre and students from a local school. Students voice their thoughts about diversity, love, and the importance of feeling safe.

BRISBANE: A PLACE FOR ALL

Developed in collaboration with artist Matthias Bucher this was a satellite work outside QAGOMA on Cordelia Street in the Brisbane CBD. The work reflects Brisbane as a world where families are diverse and inclusive, and that these families are welcomed and supported. There is a polyamorous family with two children, a lesbian couple with child, a single father with two children, a heterosexual couple with a transgender child, a single parent with a non-binary child, and a rainbow family with a pet.

This work was presented as part of APT10 Kids: Outdoors (2021), an outdoor gallery exhibition developed by QAGOMA in collaboration with Brisbane City Council.

MEASURE: QUEENSLAND

This was a satellite work developed by Novak outside QAGOMA on Edison Lane in the Brisbane CBD. According to a report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) the population of Queensland was 5,194,879 as of December 2020. The report estimated 4.18% of this population were gay, lesbian, or bisexual, which means a conservative estimate of queer communities in Queensland at that time sat at approximately 217,146 people. This estimate is conservative as it does not include the many queer identities beyond gay, lesbian, or bisexual.

Each queer life is represented by a coloured circle. There are 217,146 circles reflecting the estimate above. This helps visualise how large queer communities might be.