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I'm Marley Myles, I'm a visual artist working on unceded Bundjalung Country in so-called Northern New South Wales. I work mainly with hand-stitched embroidery, ink drawings, acrylic paintings and screen printing.

The two pieces I have in this exhibition are both hand-stitched embroideries stitched with black thread on a white hemp organic cotton cloth and hung on wooden dowel to be a wall hanging. The fabric is soft yet strong and the lines are a simple backstitch. I like to think of the threads as a tendril of storytelling that weave in collaboration with ancient present and future narratives, a thread in a wide web of storytelling. Each of these embroideries are a response to the assumed hetero-masculine gaze, the hybrid wolf piece titled "Wild Body" acts as a disrupter of any fixed gender perspective. Occupying liminality, mystery, the aliveness of nature, the wildness of our ungovernable bodies, a queer ecology and limitless possibility of being. Shifting through disrupting and conjuring a radical imagination to create other ways of being and relating.

And my Medusa piece offers another potent force that disrupts this piece is titled "Gorgonize" for her unflinching eyes refuse to be consumed by the male gaze, she stares back. Medusa as a symbol of reclamation of the parts of ourselves that are harmed by the male gaze, by the violence of patriarchy. Alongside her we can reject imposed identities such as the monstrous feminine and instead embody the multitudes of our being.