fagpile - pink is fun| M16 Artspace Exhibition & Opening

Gerald Jones Jones' art created during the lockdown was shaped by their dedication to the creative process and exploration of paint. The symbol of the Roman Emperor's head from the Colossus of Constantine, gained new meaning for the artist after the news of Ali Fazeli Monfared's tragic beheading for being queer. Jones has created a unique iconography in their work, featuring recurring themes of the artist's easel and the edifice, and the head. Inviting the viewer to form their own allegory of the queer artist's "fagpile" or detritus. In this body of work, pink plays a central role with political and emotional connotations, particularly in relation to queerness. Check out 'Cosmotechnic Telepathics in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism' and 'A Stranger I Know Well' in Galleries 1 and 3 opening the same evening! M16 Artspace operates on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people. We honour and pay our respects to its traditional custodians. We acknowledge this land always was and always will be the country of Australias First Nations People. Sovereignty was never ceded.