Queer Territory - Exhibition and Zine Launch

Join 2018 Creative Resident Cj Fraser-Bell as they conclude their time at the Northern Territory Library. Cj is launching two zines on the night and will be exhibiting a number of original works.

ZINES:

• Queer Territory is a scrapbook style toe dip into Darwin’s History, assembled with some bedazzled gloves and a pair of rainbow spectacles. This satirical, queer re-imagining has been created with and inspired by contents in the Library's Northern Territory collection and includes newspaper clippings, photographs and other items, both real and completely made up.
• Fault Lines is a book of art and poetry. The poems were all composed by Cj on Frankie, the 1978 Olivetti Typewriter. Accompanying illustrations draw on aerial surveying photographs and topographical mapping found in the Library collections.

Exhibited works are original illustrations, paintings, poems and collages, some of which are included in miniature in the zine releases. A number of process pieces are also included in the exhibition as a continuation of the ‘no closed doors’ process Cj has undertaken while in Residence, having created work for three months in full view of the general public.
 

Exhibition on runs from Wednesday 6 March - Sunday 7 April, open during regular Library hours.