tiliqua tiliqua

‘I am a multidisciplinary artist and interior architect. I was born and raised on Wangal and Gadigal Country, and am currently in my second year at the National Art School, majoring in printmaking.

My identity as a queer, neurodivergent, white, transmasculine person significantly informs my own creative and research practice. My narratives of gender nonconformity and queerness in addition to my relationship to power, violence, sexuality, and my body are things that are inextricable to one another and I consider these simultaneously within the context of public spaces, architecture and the city. Being inextricable parts of my lived experience, I find they inform how I know, do and be in private and public spaces, it is in public spaces that social expectations and structures inflict on my access to, or experiences within public spaces.

Art is a form of storytelling and has always been my favoured way to connect with others. I have worked with Headspace on a collaborative piece, over a few months in 2022-23, that involved listening to a select group of young carers and producing a series of works about their experiences. I have also been in ‘Mardi Queer’, an exhibition at the Goodspace Gallery involving people with different gender identities in order to raise money for those who could not afford gender affirming care. Connecting to different communities is not only important to my practice but also to myself.”

You can see more of Ziggy’s work @zigs.psd