Like most train stations, the only artwork you normally see at Werribee Station is graffiti.
But that’s changed recently with the opening of artist Peter Waples-Crowe’s presentation Affirm.
Situated within the architecture of the station itself, specifically the window-based architrave and southern entrance to the underpass, Affirm features photography from Waples Crowe’s archive as well as new images and elements to create scenes described as “familiar to the Australian vernacular yet subjected to Peter’s unique subjective lens and collage-like methodologies.”
Peter Waples Crowe’s practice is largely based on personal experiences as influenced by his adoption and reconnection with his Ngarigo heritage, and over 25 years experience as a community health worker within Aboriginal and LGBTQIA2+ health.
His work is considered a commentary on the world as a contested site for his multiple identities and often features depictions of dingoes, a totemic figure and an analogy of survival for queer outsiders.
Affirm opened on Saturday January 27 and runs through to March 24.
The exhibition is part of the Queer Photo in Wyndham, an extension of the Midsumma LGBTQI+ festival that is currently underway.
