28 January to 31 March 2003
Held in the City of Melbourne's Art and Heritage Collection, curator and artist Timothy Horn exhibited works from his 2001 exhibition, Cinderella Complex, in combination with a small suite of portraits of a young Queen Elizabeth II.
Displaying the restrained portraits of the newly-crowned queen alongside his ironic recreations of royal symbols – the crown, the royal jewels, a harp – Horn illuminated the playful and yet powerful processes of fantasy, fetishisation and desire, as well as the semantic reclamations of the gay community.
His provocatively titled glass- and lead-crystal-encrusted sculptures gestured at the distance and interplay that lies at the heart of fantasy, alongside the semantic slippages that support this.
Curated by Timothy Horn
Australian-born Timothy Horn lives and works in New Mexico, USA. An artist of more than 20 years, his practice draws heavily on the decorative arts of the 18th and 19th centuries, highlighting the relationship between natural and constructed worlds, the power of metaphors and symbols and the gendering of objects.
Timothy's work has been exhibited widely in Australia and the USA, in both solo and group shows. He has been the recipient of several awards and grants, and his works are held in many collections, including at the National Gallery of Australia.
Queer Street presents Timothy Horn was a partnership with Midsumma: Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Festival.