Queer Contemporary: Chaosophy

NAS Gallery presents Queer Contemporary: Chaosophy, a major new group exhibition in partnership with the 2025 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, on show at NAS Building 25 Project Space from 14 February – 8 March 2025. 

From its iconic location in the heart of Sydney’s Rainbow Precinct, this exhibition brings together three generations of queer artists, including recent NAS graduates, to present cross-generational dialogues at the intersections of art, activism, poetry and performance. 

Examining queer experience, struggle, and joy, Queer Contemporary: Chaosophy will feature new works by leading contemporary artists Daniel Browning, Blake Griffiths, Victoria Spence, and Swamp Daisies, alongside emerging artists Sam Chan, Kika Kereru Baker, Frankie L.A, nikita lelu, Jake Starr and Magic Young. The exhibition also features significant existing works by Justine Youssef, Ali Tahayori and r e a. 

Works in the exhibition span sculpture, installation, textile, stencil, and several text-based works that utilise language as an artistic medium to explore the queer vernacular as a form of resistance; disrupting histories and systemic silence. Often diving deeper into themes of violence and vilification, the works sit in close dialogue with histories of queer politics, visual language, creativity, and contemporary art practice.