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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

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.

The non-binary artist shared their excitement in a statement: ‘Through this commission, my work will be able to reflect on and celebrate queer South Asian diaspora on a literally huge scale.’

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. 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.