{"title":"Emma Beer: Lady Drag","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eEven though my work often focuses on the formal qualities of paint, there’s also a clear sense of human presence—our connection to time and space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eI often wonder what painting means today, especially as it exists alongside the digital world. In my work, I try to find a balance between elegance and spontaneity—between control and rawness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eI'm also exploring whether abstract painting can express queer identity. Can abstraction represent queerness? How? I want my practice to explore queerness as a way of making and viewing abstract art, and to question how gender and sexuality shape artistic expression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eThe body, like painting or writing, is a tool for expression. So I ask: how do gender and sexuality affect how abstract art is made or seen?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Yu Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eRecently, I’ve been drawn to the relationship between words and images. I’m experimenting with poetry as a way to express abstraction—looking at how abstract writing and visual painterly language relate, and how both can evoke emotion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eEmma Beer has been living and working in Kambri for the past 20 years and is dedicated to a vigorous painting practice and the community of ANCA. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Yu Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeer’s practice stretches to the depths and edges of textiles and writing with a painterly bias. Beer identifies as a queer female artist who can be placed somewhere between colour field painting and abstract minimalism through an Australian lens.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Yu Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/1103\/2024\/collections\/Emma_Beer_lady-drag_2025_acrylic_on_linen_and_cotton_55cm_x_35cm_web.jpg?v=1758072229","url":"https:\/\/ancagallery.myshopify.com\/collections\/emma-beer-lady-drag.oembed","provider":"ancagallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}