A collection of drawings on brown paper, bound by celebrated sculptor Linde Ivimey, The New Pantheon: Parts One and Two is presented as a lone book atop a plinth and is experienced as a tome of knowledge; a long lost volume.
The New Pantheon: Parts One and Two is the first (and second) part of a larger multi-discipline project that explores the construction of an Australian queer folklore. Passed down through generations, the folktale is a precautionary story that gives voice to the fears and anxieties of a collective group. Foley’s project approaches these moments in a series of drawings that imagine monstrous archetypes haunting contemporary queer experience. While the Victorians had vampires, wolf children, and mermaids, Foley has given his tribe Ash Mouth, the Blackout Boys and Dark Water Lover. Foley begins from the position as a white, queer, Australian; having no connection to the myth and folklore of the land of his ancestors and no roots granting connection to the folklore of this land. In The New Pantheon he begins writing his own, evoking imagery of nature encroaching civilisation, creatures no modern man had seen, and those they have inadvertently created.
The New Pantheon: Parts One and Two is the first (and second) part of a larger multi-discipline project that explores the construction of an Australian queer folklore. Passed down through generations, the folktale is a precautionary story that gives voice to the fears and anxieties of a collective group. Foley’s project approaches these moments in a series of drawings that imagine monstrous archetypes haunting contemporary queer experience. While the Victorians had vampires, wolf children, and mermaids, Foley has given his tribe Ash Mouth, the Blackout Boys and Dark Water Lover. Foley begins from the position as a white, queer, Australian; having no connection to the myth and folklore of the land of his ancestors and no roots granting connection to the folklore of this land. In The New Pantheon he begins writing his own, evoking imagery of nature encroaching civilisation, creatures no modern man had seen, and those they have inadvertently created.
Levey street, Chippendale
Myrtle lane, Chippendale
