About Rae Boggs
They/Them
Rae Boggs is an artist working in the expanded field of print and installation. Their practice is informed by ongoing concerns around childhood, gender, and language. Their artistic practice draws on the personal experience of identifying as gender non-binary person to investigate the myth of gender representation. Through this investigation they explore the construction of gender stereotypes in the material culture of childhood through language. For Boggs this material culture of childhood includes clothing, toys, and books. Exploring childhood, has allowed Boggs to reconnect their past to their future and discover things about themself.
They work within modes of materiality that shift between printmaking, sculpture, and installation. Their practice includes printing on paper and textiles, soft sculptures, making books, and collaboratively quilting with the aim of making language material. Boggs’ use of textiles includes printing on children’s clothing, making soft sculptural toys and quilts from their own and their family’s cast-offs.
They had their first solo show, Queering Space at Airspace Projects, August 2023; and their recent group shows include Small Works Art Prize at Brunswick Street Gallery, Wurundjeri Country, Fitzroy, Victoria, 6th to 19th January 2024; RECOMPOSE/Drawing Threads at DRAW Space, Newtown, 7th December 2023 to 7th January 2024; Close Encounters at Schmick contemporary, Sydney, 13th to 17th December 2023; Kaleidoscope II, celebrating the LGBTQI+ community at Belconnen Art Centre in Belconnen, Canberra, October – November 2023; the Printmakers Show at Tiliqua Tiliqua Studio, August 2023; the Incognito Art Show, July 2023; inside/s, at Gallery no.23, May 2023; and In Congruence, at Goodspace Gallery, May 2023.