Easton Dunne: Welcome to Paradise
ABOUT THE SHOW
“Welcome to Paradise is a large artwork. It’s made up from lots of signs and symbols and shapes that you would see if you were driving through Rockhampton on the highway. There’s lots of country symbolism relating to the cattle industry because I grew up on a cattle property west of Rockhampton on unceded Wadja and Ghungalu Country and that’s an important part of my own experiences in this area.
Welcome to Paradise is also an unapologetic celebration of what it’s like to be a queer person living in Rockhampton, which probably sounds like the last place where you would find a queer utopia – I wonder what it would look like if we had a massive Mardi Gras up the main streets of Rockhampton and turned everything hot pink and fluffy. And so, it’s quite cool in that sense to see the work becoming the reference point for the branding for Melt.” – Easton Dunne
EXHIBITIONS DATES: 16 OCT – 10 NOV
PART OF MELT FESTIVAL
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Easton Dunne is an artist, artsworker and arts educator based in Central Queensland on Darumbal Country. Their work explores queer identity and experiences in rural and regional contexts through an autobiographical lens.
Dunne’s major solo exhibition, Welcome to Paradise, opened at Rockhampton Museum of Art in May 2023. Their recent solo exhibition, Main Drag, was shown at both Metro Arts in Meanjin/Brisbane and First Draft in Sydney on Gadigal Land in 2023. In 2024 their work will be shown at Melbourne Art Fair in First Draft’s group exhibition, Soft Cell. During 2022 they were invited to participate in Mighty Real, a group exhibition of work by LGBTQIAP+ artists curated by Todd Fuller, held at M. Contemporary in Sydney as part of Clifford Chance and Glamazon Pride Exhibition.
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