BECOMING–THEM is a safe space to explore. A space for examining and expressing parts of Q-self (queer self) that are kept hidden or disallowed from most heteronormative environments. This residency will act as a queernormative, transnormative home for work in growing progress. 

Utilising alternative media (focussing on digital, sculptural/installation and performance techniques) as a channel for alternative body and alternative self, Huxtable’s explorations will centre around themselves and their communities. The ways in which body and psyche interact and fluctuate through navigating queerness in the process of constant change will be central to the modes of practice which they undertake. Huxtable will aim for organic yet constructed, deliberate movements, drawing mainly from their recent and ongoing experience with HRT (testosterone) to connect with what they make. BECOMING — THEM will navigate a deep sense of fear and unknown in a space of support and pleasure.

Sam Huxtable is a non-binary/trans, queer artist working in Perth, Australia. Exploring the queer body and psych, their work finds commonality between fantasy and reality and reaches out for both emotional and visceral response. Engaging with a range of mediums including digital media, sculpture, installation and performance work, Huxtable navigates the unresolved, expansive notion of existence from a queer perspective – an existence that resides in constant flux – alongside the experience of others in their community. Through these explorations, solitude and togetherness / harshness and tenderness work simultaneously to reflect form and experience which are often overlooked.