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Group Shows
A series of artworks by Tarzan JungleQueen spanning over 10 years. Tarzan has exhibited in Darwin, Australia wide (plus touring exhibitions), France, Colombia and Indonesia. The exhibition themes include, activism, queering masculinity, fighting for a sustainable environment, the pandemic + more.
GROUP HUG
Hug me
COVID took the hug away from humans.
HUMANS took the hug away from earth.
If we looked at drilling into earth the same as drilling into a human skull, praps we’d stop FRACKING for good.
Coconut Studios Darwin
Graphic print on illford paper, 2020
COVID took the hug away from humans.
HUMANS took the hug away from earth.
If we looked at drilling into earth the same as drilling into a human skull, praps we’d stop FRACKING for good.
Coconut Studios Darwin
Graphic print on illford paper, 2020
Hail Moon, Sweat Season
Collaboration with Matthew van Roden
Queer artists Matthew van Roden and Tarzan JungleQueen live in a dark cave where gender is already being recycled into six boxes, maybe more. Each morning they take out the trash, attend to the compost and admire the wiggly worms with their multiple sets of genitals and lack of definition. In their dark cave they build temporary bodies for each other. Bodies that emanate light and exist like reflections on the surface of a lake. Sometimes they fall into the water. Things are always more fluid than they seem, which is something they could not see before they became luna-tics. This water is precious, Narcissus knew it; the lake dancing to the pull of the moon. And when you fall into the love of water, you can no longer stand the deathly sound of drilling. Hail Moon is a projection of their collective love for a future earth that can sustain temporary bodies. Cutting up/together the speech of Aristophanes on the origin of love in Plato’s Symposium, and Adam Vaughan’s 2018 article, Fracking – the reality, the risks and what the future holds published in the Guardian online. Van Roden and JungleQueen embrace the spirit of the cut-up method King, author William S. Burroughs. Bringing these two texts together, queering both and liberating a narrative they collectively share: Don’t frack the Territory, don’t frack the planet. Be like the moon and fall in love with the waters of the earth.
https://www.matthewvanroden.com/hail-moon
Queer artists Matthew van Roden and Tarzan JungleQueen live in a dark cave where gender is already being recycled into six boxes, maybe more. Each morning they take out the trash, attend to the compost and admire the wiggly worms with their multiple sets of genitals and lack of definition. In their dark cave they build temporary bodies for each other. Bodies that emanate light and exist like reflections on the surface of a lake. Sometimes they fall into the water. Things are always more fluid than they seem, which is something they could not see before they became luna-tics. This water is precious, Narcissus knew it; the lake dancing to the pull of the moon. And when you fall into the love of water, you can no longer stand the deathly sound of drilling. Hail Moon is a projection of their collective love for a future earth that can sustain temporary bodies. Cutting up/together the speech of Aristophanes on the origin of love in Plato’s Symposium, and Adam Vaughan’s 2018 article, Fracking – the reality, the risks and what the future holds published in the Guardian online. Van Roden and JungleQueen embrace the spirit of the cut-up method King, author William S. Burroughs. Bringing these two texts together, queering both and liberating a narrative they collectively share: Don’t frack the Territory, don’t frack the planet. Be like the moon and fall in love with the waters of the earth.
https://www.matthewvanroden.com/hail-moon
Hail Moon, Sweat Season
Collaboration with Matthew van Roden
Queer artists Matthew van Roden and Tarzan JungleQueen live in a dark cave where gender is already being recycled into six boxes, maybe more. Each morning they take out the trash, attend to the compost and admire the wiggly worms with their multiple sets of genitals and lack of definition. In their dark cave they build temporary bodies for each other. Bodies that emanate light and exist like reflections on the surface of a lake. Sometimes they fall into the water. Things are always more fluid than they seem, which is something they could not see before they became luna-tics. This water is precious, Narcissus knew it; the lake dancing to the pull of the moon. And when you fall into the love of water, you can no longer stand the deathly sound of drilling. Hail Moon is a projection of their collective love for a future earth that can sustain temporary bodies. Cutting up/together the speech of Aristophanes on the origin of love in Plato’s Symposium, and Adam Vaughan’s 2018 article, Fracking – the reality, the risks and what the future holds published in the Guardian online. Van Roden and JungleQueen embrace the spirit of the cut-up method King, author William S. Burroughs. Bringing these two texts together, queering both and liberating a narrative they collectively share: Don’t frack the Territory, don’t frack the planet. Be like the moon and fall in love with the waters of the earth.
https://www.matthewvanroden.com/hail-moon
Queer artists Matthew van Roden and Tarzan JungleQueen live in a dark cave where gender is already being recycled into six boxes, maybe more. Each morning they take out the trash, attend to the compost and admire the wiggly worms with their multiple sets of genitals and lack of definition. In their dark cave they build temporary bodies for each other. Bodies that emanate light and exist like reflections on the surface of a lake. Sometimes they fall into the water. Things are always more fluid than they seem, which is something they could not see before they became luna-tics. This water is precious, Narcissus knew it; the lake dancing to the pull of the moon. And when you fall into the love of water, you can no longer stand the deathly sound of drilling. Hail Moon is a projection of their collective love for a future earth that can sustain temporary bodies. Cutting up/together the speech of Aristophanes on the origin of love in Plato’s Symposium, and Adam Vaughan’s 2018 article, Fracking – the reality, the risks and what the future holds published in the Guardian online. Van Roden and JungleQueen embrace the spirit of the cut-up method King, author William S. Burroughs. Bringing these two texts together, queering both and liberating a narrative they collectively share: Don’t frack the Territory, don’t frack the planet. Be like the moon and fall in love with the waters of the earth.
https://www.matthewvanroden.com/hail-moon
POLITIKANT by Creative Provocateurs
Chief Minister Michael Gunner has allowed fracking companies to frack over 51% of the NT, destroying land, water and our climate
POLITIKANT by Creative Provocateurs
Iron ore and cattle magnate - Gina Rinehart
POLITIKANT by Creative Provocateurs
Dump ScoMo and break the power of the fossil fuel capitalists
biotic communities - Darwin Community Arts members show
I designed this perspex illustration for a project I developed with Eve Pawlick and Anna Thompson.
Lit Larvae (meaning: exciting young bees) is a creative program for Queer, Trans, Intersex, Gender Diverse or questioning young people from the Darwin and Palmerston region. Providing mentorship from local queer arts practitioners offering skills development in design, costume, event production and the art of textiles.
The work was also exhibited in the 2023 Darwin Community Arts members exhibition 'biotic communities'
Lit Larvae (meaning: exciting young bees) is a creative program for Queer, Trans, Intersex, Gender Diverse or questioning young people from the Darwin and Palmerston region. Providing mentorship from local queer arts practitioners offering skills development in design, costume, event production and the art of textiles.
The work was also exhibited in the 2023 Darwin Community Arts members exhibition 'biotic communities'
biotic communities - Darwin Community Arts members show
This embroidery work was exhibited in the 2023 Darwin Community Arts members exhibition 'biotic communities' alongside my perspex work.
biotic communities - Darwin Community Arts members show
I designed this illustration and promotional flyer for a project I developed with Eve Pawlick and Anna Thompson called Lit Larvae.
Lit Larvae (meaning: exciting young bees) is a creative program for Queer, Trans, Intersex, Gender Diverse or questioning young people from the Darwin and Palmerston region. Providing mentorship from local queer arts practitioners offering skills development in design, costume, event production and the art of textiles.
The work was also exhibited in the 2023 Darwin Community Arts members exhibition 'biotic communities'
Lit Larvae (meaning: exciting young bees) is a creative program for Queer, Trans, Intersex, Gender Diverse or questioning young people from the Darwin and Palmerston region. Providing mentorship from local queer arts practitioners offering skills development in design, costume, event production and the art of textiles.
The work was also exhibited in the 2023 Darwin Community Arts members exhibition 'biotic communities'
Polly doesn't want a Cracker!
Lucky Bat, Nightcliff, Darwin
Futurama Glamourarma, Lightbox series
Aphid invasion
A world ruled by feministic fellows.
A Mother ship so powerful no governance shall ever ‘Trump’ it.
Where Brains are treasured and bullets are buried. So equal there is but one heart beat that thumps for all. We dare you emerged yourself in the fluidness that is FUTURO.
Darwin - curated by @koullar Roussos @city_of_darwin
A world ruled by feministic fellows.
A Mother ship so powerful no governance shall ever ‘Trump’ it.
Where Brains are treasured and bullets are buried. So equal there is but one heart beat that thumps for all. We dare you emerged yourself in the fluidness that is FUTURO.
Darwin - curated by @koullar Roussos @city_of_darwin
Futurama Glamourarma, Lightbox series
Aphid invasion
A world ruled by feministic fellows.
A Mother ship so powerful no governance shall ever ‘Trump’ it.
Where Brains are treasured and bullets are buried. So equal there is but one heart beat that thumps for all. We dare you emerged yourself in the fluidness that is FUTURO.
Darwin - curated by @koullar Roussos @city_of_darwin
A world ruled by feministic fellows.
A Mother ship so powerful no governance shall ever ‘Trump’ it.
Where Brains are treasured and bullets are buried. So equal there is but one heart beat that thumps for all. We dare you emerged yourself in the fluidness that is FUTURO.
Darwin - curated by @koullar Roussos @city_of_darwin
Collaborative Mural
Survive Garage, Jogjakarta
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Collaborative Mural
Survive Garage, Jogjakarta
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Collaborative Mural
Survive Garage, Jogjakarta
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huMAN
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