Photograph by Cian Sanders.
Jan Manton Gallery is delighted to welcome Troy-Anthony Baylis to the gallery.
Born in Sydney in 1976, Troy-Anthony Baylis is a painter, textile artist, installation artist, and performance artist. A descendant of the Jawoyn people from the Northern Territory, Baylis is part of a larger contemporary movement exploring Indigeneity and sexuality through a cross disciplinary lens, traversing visual art, performance and literature.
Baylis' multi-faceted artistic practice is founded in the process of ‘queering’ and unsettling traditional ways of representing Aboriginality. Baylis has exhibited widely across Australia and internationally, having installed, exhibited and performed across New Zealand, the Philippines, Iceland and Germany.
His work has been subject of 20 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions, performances, and publications since 1993. Baylis' work was profiled in The National 2019: new Australian art at Carriageworks, Sydney. Recent institutional solo exhibitions include Nomenclatures (Art Gallery of South Australia, 2020-2021) and I Wanna Be Adorned (QUT Art Museum, 2023).
Jan Manton Gallery is thrilled to be showing with Baylis for his new exhibition 'I wanna be rich' between 12 March - 6 April 2024.
Artwork: Troy-Anthony Baylis, Postcard (Blackbutt and Cherry), 2023, reconstructed faux mesh, 85 x 190cm.