Growing up in suburban Brisbane, oppressive gender roles and the invasive cane toad were omnipresent in the artist's adolescence. The cane toad, introduced to control cane beetle in Queensland’s sugar cane farms, subsequently devastated native animal populations, and continues to spread throughout Australia. The exhibition explores the cultural complexity of this ubiquitous substance and its farming impacts, dissecting the medium to find new ways to see and use sugar.
Sweet Enough draws on techniques from glass blowing and culinary arts, in the form of sculpture, video installations and 2D works. The gallery will become a site of production and exchange as Rose creates exuberant sugar sculptures on-site.
Curated by Julia Powles.
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Chloe Rose Thomas’ exhibition, 'Can I Hold You?' centres on queer community and embodied practices of care, exploring what it means to take traditional photographic portraits of non-normative bodies and the histories they represent.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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