about the work...
Diary Pages is a new series of work from emerging artist/curator Zoë Sydney. Sydney is a Queer artist working with found materials across Perth and Melbourne. Discovering yourself is an ongoing journey that can be a private and shameful affair. Diary Pages is a celebration of that process. The banners are appliquéd with excerpts from Sydney’s diaries from 2016 to today. The purpose of Diary Pages is to blur the lines between private and public by transforming the diary entry into a public spectacle. The journey of discovering your sexuality can be a private and shameful affair. By making these engrossing yet soft pieces Sydney transforms that narrative into one of pride, and also one of comfort, half blanket and half banner. Working exclusively with thrifted textiles, each work is imbued with a sense of lost history that is shared by the decontextualised fragments of writing. The loud fabrics and large letters are a celebration and soft monument to discovering yourself.