Untitled (from Toxic Queen series)
David McDIARMID: artist
McDiarmid worked in Melbourne and Sydney from 1972-79 and in New York from 1979-1987. In 1988, he started working at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras as a workshop artist and art director. His Toxic Queen (1993) series were originally produced as a magazine-style artist’s book of the same title, a thirty-page, spiral bound work placing false news headlines in hand-cut lettering over appropriated imagery of film stills, gay iconography and newspaper and magazine clippings. It was printed as a series of unnumbered multiples, on a colour photocopier in McDiarmid’s studio. They employ texts of black humour to stark political effect.
Title
Untitled (from Toxic Queen series)
Artist/Maker and role
David McDIARMID: artist
Date
1993
Medium
colour Xerox, signed
unnumbered multiples
unnumbered multiples
Measurements
29.7 x 21.0 cm each
Credit line
Gift of Neon Parc and the Estate of David McDiarmind, 2015
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
2015/0092.1-2