Opening Floor Talk: Flaming Star

Saddle up, cowboys! It’s time to ride into the queer, campy, and delightfully dark world of Flaming Star.

Join curator Milly Mitchell-Anyon alongside exhibiting artists for an opening weekend floor talk that traverses the dusty fantasies and contradictions of cowboy culture. From haunted mansions to gyrating mechanical bulls, this tour explores queerness, desire, and wrangles with the dark undercurrents of ‘The West’.

Imagine Liberace in dusty chaps, cowboys fuelled by yearning, and the sensual undoing of the colonial frontier.

Flaming Star features works by: Arapeta Hākura, Bec Agnew, Christopher Ulutupu, Keri-Mei Zagrobelna, Melanie Tangaere Baldwin, Michael Haggie, Ming Ranginui, and Sandy Gibbs.

Ready to ride?

Image: Still from Bec Agnew, Infinite West, 2022, moving image. Composition by Damien Sutton. Courtesy of the artist.

You may also like the following events from The Dowse Art Museum:

• Next Tuesday, 8th July, 12:00 am, School Holiday: Stone and Sculpture in Lower Hutt
• Next Thursday, 10th July, 01:00 am, School Holiday: Wool craft at the Petone Settlers Museum in Lower Hutt

Also check out other Arts events in Lower Hutt.