Arlene TextaQueen
Date of Birth 2 December 1975
CV
Solo Exhibitions
2002
Textanudes 54: Post Modern Pin-ups Playing Cards, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Event, Mori Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Textanudes !!!! 4, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2000
Emcees etc, Alliance, Sydney
1999
Textanudes !! 2, Sexy Pop, Sydney
Textanudes ! : females drawn naked in their own habitat, Blackbird, Sydney
1998
Wear you there? (exhibition on walls and t-shirts) Greenwich Bar, Perth, WA
Selected Exhibitions / Projects / Events
2002
Primavera 2002 (Exhibition of 10 Young Australian Artists), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Ladyfest, (Textanudes narrated slide show and live drawing performance), Vrankrijk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Make Art not Love, (street drawing performance) Wilhemstrasse, Berlin, Germany
Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Textanudes Strip Poker, Reklaim Da Mullet Festival, Adelaide, SA
2001Gurlesque Lesbian Strip Club, (Textanudes narrated slide show at queer bi-monthly event), The Imperial, Sydney
Champagne Soccer Shocker (interventionist soccer event), Alan Davidson Oval, Sydney
Squatter’s Showdown (portrait yearbook installation at final show), Squatspace, Sydney
2000
Schlock Tactics (Textanudes narrated slide show), The Performance Space, Sydney
Don’t Board it Up (inaugural photographic installation), Squatspace, Broadway NSW
Reflex Poetics 5 (live drawing performance), Bondi Pavilion, Sydney Fringe Festival, Sydney
That Elusive Thrill (TextaQueen narrated slide show and drawing performance), Icebox, Sydney
1999
Urban Art X-pressions (performer portraits), Urban X-pressions Hip Hop Festival, Alliance, Sydney
1998
gogglflush (group show of artists collective), Jacksue Gallery, Perth, Western Australia
1997
B.R.A.I.N. @ Awesome International Children’s Festival, (Jacksue collective project: commissioned to create a large-scale site-specific interactive learning game), Subiaco Theatre Garden’s, Subiaco, WA
Grants
1998
Marketing and Showcasing Grant (Young Artist), ArtsWA
Project Grant for Wear you there? Artrage Festival, WA
Relevant employment and experience
1997-present
Caricature artist
[portraits and children’s drawing workshops at festivals and events]
1998-present
Freelance design and illustration
[including CD, flyer, logo design and web illustrations]
2002
Participant, Women’s Eclectic Tech Carnivale, Pula, Croatia
2000-2002
Active member of SCAN (Social Centre Autonomous Network),
setting up self managed community space in Sydney, NSW
2001-2002
Co-producer, Autopia: Beyond Cities, 2ser Community Radio, Sydney
2001-2000
Co-founder, Squatspace Gallery, Ultimo, NSW
[Curatorial duties, website and promotion design of squatted artist run gallery]
2000 Hip Hop Illustrator, 3D World Press, Sydney
1999
Screenprint design on clothing for sale at Sexy Pop Clothing, Enmore, NSW
Hip Hop Illustrator, Slingshot Magazine, Sydney
Emcee, Hip Hop: A Place of Peace, CD produced with The Settlement, Sydney
Live artist, Vibes on a Summers Day, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney
1998
Event promoter, Kindy Arcade, Greenwich Bar, Perth, WA
1996-1998
Gallery assistant and event promoter, Jacksue Gallery, Perth
Travel
Glasgow, Scotland; London, UK; Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Antwerp, Belgium, Barcelona, Spain; Paris and Lyon, France; Berlin, Cologne, Kassel, Konstanz and Frankfurt, Germany; Vienna, Austria; Pula, Croatia; Rome and Venice, Italy; Dublin, Ireland; Athens, Greece; Vietnam; India; Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and in-between, Australia
Bibliography
The Mod Squad, Metropolitan, The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 October 2002
Life after ditching the palette and beret, The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 October 2002
Artery, Triple J Radio, 20 October 2002
Primavera 2002 Catalogue, October 2002
Attention Please, The Word, Harper’s Bazaar, November 2002
Artist Profile, Blunt, Fly TV on ABC TV and ABC Digital, 18 May 2002
Cerulean, Bittersweet and Iguana Green, The Paper, 19 April 2002
Artist Profile, Slit Dyke Sex Mag, Feb 2002
Quite a card, Metropolitan, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 March 2002
Colouring Outside the Lines, SX, Issue 57, March 2002
Artist Profile, Noise TV on ABC TV, 14 November 2001