Leading contemporary artist Gerwyn Davies presents a series of striking photographic portraits developed in collaboration with trans and gender-diverse young people from Open Doors Youth Service.
Each vivid image features a handcrafted sculptural costume, allowing the wearer to represent themselves in spectacular ways while simultaneously retaining their anonymity. Together, the works celebrate self-expression, resilience, and the power of chosen visibility.
MoB’s Artist in Residence program is supported by Tim Fairfax AC.
Presented by Museum of Brisbane in partnership with MELT Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse.
Gerwyn Davies is a queer artist working across photography, costume, textiles and video, while living and working on both Gadigal and Yuin Country of Sydney and the South Coast of NSW. Gerwyn is an Associate Lecturer at the University of New South Wales (Art and Design) where he completed a PhD exploring camp aesthetics, photographic self-representation and the political potentials of queer in/visibility.
Prior to this, Gerwyn completed a Bachelor of Photography (1st Class Hons) at the Queensland College of Art and has worked as a member of academic staff at Griffith University and the National Art School Sydney.
Gerwyn was awarded the Olive Cotton Award and the Clayton Utz Art Award, and has been a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize, the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, the Alice Springs Art Prize, the Bowness Prize and the Brisbane Portrait Prize.
Gerwyn’s works are held in public collections including Museums of History NSW, Tweed Regional Gallery, HoTA, Ipswich Art Gallery, City of Sydney, Artbank, Museum of Brisbane, Redlands Art Gallery, Rockhampton Art Gallery and Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery.
Gerwyn is represented by Jan Murphy Gallery Brisbane and Michael Reid Galleries Sydney/ Berlin.
