Watch David paint the Q+ Hub
This activation invites David Lee Pereira to paint a portion of the Q+ Hub exterior live and in front of the local community. As the Q+ Hub is activated around Australia, the work of other diverse queer artists will join David's to create an evolving queer artwork.
11:00AM - 4:00PM
Sat 27th & Sun 28th March 2021
David Lee Pereira is a practicing visual artist whose paintings, illustrations, large scale murals and public installations delve into the fluidity of gender, sexuality and identity exploring these through the recurring themes of dysphoria and interpersonal relationships. Influenced by the work of impressionist and surrealist artists Georgia O’Keefe, Dali and Munch, and paying homage to baroque ikebana and dutch still life, Pereira’s floral expressions range from beautifully brutal to joyous and intimate and are overflowing with symbolism and narrative.
"A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire."
- Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses, 1990, p. 13
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Write your own message in the Q+ Hub
Artist in residence, Matto Lucas, invites the public to read messages from queer people around Australia. Taking inspiration from his evocative sound design, visitors will have the opportunity to personalise their own message of love and self expression, and fix it to the interior of the Q+ Hub.
11:00AM - 4:00PM
Sat 27th & Sun 28th March 2021
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All children (under the age of 16) are to be accompanied by a parent and/or guardian at all times during Q+ events