Jake Yang: Set in Stone

Jake Yang is a multi-disciplinary artist working across painting, ceramics, textiles and installation. Yang’s art practice navigates queer youth culture and the way it sits alongside and intersects with his cultural background, raised in a conservative traditional Chinese household. His work challenges the normative assumptions through an examination of intersecting identities and existing in three very different cultures simultaneously (Chinese, Australian and queer). His practice explores the evolving cross- section within himself.

Yang is influenced by traditional Chinese cultural artefacts and techniques as a means of connecting and embracing neglected cultural identity growing up. Transposing these traditional elements into an exploration of queer culture and personal relationships in art is an expression of empowerment, self-development and self-acceptance. He is particularly interested in creating works that allow himself and viewers to re-examine conservative viewpoints through a queer lens. Through re-presenting traditional artefacts, mythologies, symbols, and shapes he can use this lens to relearn and accept cultural identity.

Friday, 29 January, 6-8pm

Join us for the opening night of Set in Stone, with speeches and a Welcome to Country, at Incinerator Gallery alongside exhibitions Digital Narratives and 99 Anxieties.