Gallery 2: Prue Hazelgrove 'The way You are'

Though we’ve been married a couple years now, I met my wife earlier this year.

The way You are. is a love letter to Junia and the other beautiful transgender humans in my life. Juni and I grow flowers together, so this seemed like a natural language for me to incorporate into this work. Humans have ceremonially used flowers for thousands of years; they are used to communicate and mark all kinds of occasions from celebration to mourning. Through this body of work, I want to celebrate the beauty and joy of my queer siblings whilst also acknowledging the grief and everything else that comes with the process of finding yourself, courtesy of the society that we live in. I want to highlight the diversity of this community and for the audience to see someone like themselves in this work. Bringing portraits of flora and humans into conversation with each other I invite the viewer to consider how intricately wonderful and incredibly ordinary gender and sexuality can be.

Image credit: Prue Hazelgrove, The way You are. - Miki, She/Her Banksia coccinea, 2023, tintype diptych, courtesy the artist.

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