HILLS

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing & Printmaking)

In this body of work I draw on the history of animal exploitation in my own paternal genealogy to challenge the expectations of masculinity placed on me as a child. I examine the link between animal cruelty and toxic masculinity, and how this entanglement has ultimately impacted my ability to be comfortable with my own queerness.

I use the aesthetics of slaughter to merge a critique of the treatment of animals on Australian farms with the forced severance of inner femininity of young boys, and the hyper-masculine expectations in Australian society.

Enquiries

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HILLS, my father worked in an abattoir, butcher knife (used 1982), feather boa, fluorescent meat light, hot rolled steel, nail polish, PVC strip curtain, steel butchers hook, steel chain, dimensions variable, 2022. Documentation by Lucy Foster.

HILLS, my father worked in an abattoir, butcher knife (used 1982), feather boa, fluorescent meat light, hot rolled steel, nail polish, PVC strip curtain, steel butchers hook, steel chain, dimensions variable, 2022.

HILLS, my father worked in an abattoir, butcher knife (used 1982), feather boa, fluorescent meat light, hot rolled steel, nail polish, PVC strip curtain, steel butchers hook, steel chain, dimensions variable, 2022.

HILLS, my father worked in an abattoir, butcher knife (used 1982), feather boa, fluorescent meat light, hot rolled steel, nail polish, PVC strip curtain, steel butchers hook, steel chain, dimensions variable, 2022.

HILLS, my father worked in an abattoir, butcher knife (used 1982), feather boa, fluorescent meat light, hot rolled steel, nail polish, PVC strip curtain, steel butchers hook, steel chain, dimensions variable, 2022.

HILLS, my father worked in an abattoir, butcher knife (used 1982), feather boa, fluorescent meat light, hot rolled steel, nail polish, PVC strip curtain, steel butchers hook, steel chain, dimensions variable, 2022.

HILLS, lessons, digital video, 13 seconds (looped), 2022.

Dharani Kommalapati

Jordan Koudmani

Shelley Spangler

Rosa Varga-Miller

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the people of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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