arlene textaqueen's photostream

My textaqueen website is under reconstruction, meanwhile my flickr has much of my recent work up on it.

About me...
‘Texta’ is Australian for felt-tip marker and I am Arlene TextaQueen, the felt-tip super-heroine. For over a decade, across Australia and North America, I have been asking unique women and queer performers to ‘un-dress-up’ as Textanudes. In a collaborative exchange we choose props, poses and surrounds to reflect their persona, or on recent adventures into Naked Landscapes, to enact nude re-interpretations of Australian cultural and historical identities. Wherever we create, conversation and marker flow across the paper between us and a quote from our interchange bringing into focus our intimate dynamics is inked in, followed later by colourful detail.

My latest project is Textanudes 54 Pin-Up Playing Cards Mark II, and you've come to this site looking to purchase them please send an email to textasforever (at) gmail (dot) com with the subject heading CARDS and I'll arrange to post you some in the mail (cost $30 a pack). Paypal will be set up soon on my new website.

You can see the exhibition that launched the cards on March 3rd at
Sullivan and Strumpf FIne Art
799 Elizabeth St, Zetland
Sydney
on March 3rd - 27th 2011.
www.ssfa.com.au

Melbourne strip poker launch very soon.

Cheers
ATQ