Bootlegs: A Fan Art Exhibition

Exhibition dates: 30 May - 4 July
Opening event: 5:30pm Wednesday 3 June

Bootlegs is our upcoming exhibition that invites artists to explore fan art through the lens of print, featuring work by more than 40 contemporary artists working across a range of fields and media.

Drawing on the deviant logic of reproduction, remix and circulation that sits at the heart of printmaking, the exhibition leans into spirit of the bootleg. Whether drawing from video games, movies and TV, books, comics or art history, the exhibition reclaims works made in admiration, obsession and creative play.

Fan art subcultures have grown into massive, interconnected communities. Since long before the shadow of AI slop, these online groups have provided spaces for creative expression by marginalised and alternative voices, particularly women and queer creators, to retell stories and reimagine shared universes online.  From zines and posters to editions and multiples, Bootlegs celebrates the fan-made as both homage and creative resistance.  

Events:

Opening Wednesday 3 June: 5:30pm

BOOTLEGS: A fan art exhibition is on display 30 May - 4 July

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