Episode 6 of Opening Drinks features Kieran Butler, presenter of the project 80 years from now (Verge, January 2022). Kieran is joined by their colleague and very wonderful emerging artist, Amy Claire Mills. In the episode, Mills and Butler chat about love, DJ Sophie, personal histories, the Matrix and beach towels.
Kieran Butler is an emerging photographic artist who works across photography, installation, costume and set design, and performance. Currently their research looks at applying transgender studies as a methodology for examining non-binary models of contemporary photographic practice, gender identity, and where these two histories might speak to one another. Kieran is currently Sydney-based and lives and works on Gadigal Land.
Amy Claire Mills is also a Sydney-based emerging artist living and working on unceded Gadigal and Wangal land. Her art practice explores identity and self-preservation through immersive textile installations and performance, by which she becomes both the artist and subject. Her practice critiques and examines the politics surrounding the disabled body, disrupting the socially-constructed idea of disability. Using distinctive, colourful and bold mediums her work encourages the observer to challenge their own paradigms and internalised preconceived bias, with the intention of deconstructing ableism.
