Exhibiting in the Lounge Gallery is Easton Dunne with their installation work, Hail Holy Queen (2023).
Dunne’s Hail Holy Queen (2023) applies a queer lens to a childhood time and place where, according to the artist, they “held an acute sense of [their]own queerness and transness but had no language or agency to recognise or express this identity, in part as a result of the conservative influence of religious beliefs on family and community”.[1]
The installation recreates aspects of Dunne’s paternal grandparents’ house, located on a cattle property on Ghungalu Country. It was a location for many family gatherings, often after Sunday church services, in which the artist and their family would say the Rosary together before watching television and sharing meals.
Images: Easton Dunne, ‘Welcome to Paradise’ Rockhampton Museum of Art, 2023.
