Affirm

Located within the architecture of Station Place, Peter Waples-Crowe’s site-based exhibition Affirm sits in the expansive window-based architrave and entrance to the subterranean hub of the Station. The artist has worked with his image-based archive—itself incorporating new and found imagery—moulded as raw material, often subverting the imagery’s original intents and purposes.

Waples-Crowe remixes the old alongside new elements, constructing and weaving various narratives, affirming his identity and exploring related concerns of his practice. These are largely based on the artist’s personal experiences influenced by his adoption and reconnection with his Ngarigo heritage, and over 25 years’ experience as a community health worker within Aboriginal and LGBTQIA2+ health.

This exhibition presents scenes at once familiar to the ‘Australian’ vernacular yet subjected to Waples-Crowe’s unique subjective lens and collage-like methodologies.

A Project Hub at Wyndham Art Gallery features more work by Peter Waples-Crowe, Karla Dickens and Sunil Gupta.