鈥楥amp with me鈥 2025. Digital video; chalk, charcoal & ink animation on paper, archival soundtrack. 3:50 minutes. With thanks to Mathew Nicholson (Lead and Follow) & Shae Mountain. Audio track features the voice of John Doremus from the radio series 'The Passing Parade' produced by Grace Gibson.
Camp with me imagines a queer romance between William Lygon, the 7th Earl of Beauchamp and 20th Governor of New South Wales, and poet Henry Lawson. When outed, Beauchamp was exiled to Europe after King George V remarked, 鈥淚 thought men like that shot themselves.鈥
Blending archival material, ballroom dance, video and hand-drawn animation, the work slips between fact and fantasy, rumour and romance. At its centre is a waltz, choreographed with queer ballroom company Lead and Follow, allowing Beauchamp a moment of queer love.
The work imitates and uses archival materials while reframing national icons through humour and desire. In this work, drawing serves as a tool for reframing the past and imagining alternative queer futures.
Photograph by Anna Kucera, animation stills courtesy of Todd Fuller.聽
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