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TextaQueen awarded $80K commission to celebrate queer South Asian diaspora

For over twenty years, TextaQueen has been using fibre-tip markers to draw out complex politics of gender, race, sexuality and identity in detailed portraiture.

12 Aug 2021 11:36

Celina Lei

Visual Arts

TextaQueen will present an epic exhibition at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in late 2022. Photo: Leah Jing Mcintosh courtesy of the artist and 4A.

South Asian diaspora artist TextaQueen has been announced as the inaugural recipient of Copyright Agency Partnerships (CAP) $80,000 commission, in collaboration with the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

4A will champion the development of TextaQueen’s Bollywouldn’t project, to be shown across two floors of 4A’s Haymarket gallery in late 2022.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_