Cleo Gardiner in an Australian-born Sydney-based artist.
Her work is interdisciplinary with her use of multimedia, sound, etching, print, installation and performance art. She is also an activist and writer.
Through her work she explores issues relating to gender, class, sexuality, identity and the body. Her work is both highly political and somewhat subversive.
Cleo is largely influenced by the likes of Nan Goldin, Frida Kahlo, Yoko Ono, Francesca Woodman and John Waters ;figures who she acknowledges have “inspired and introduced me to art, poetry, politics and made the world a beautiful and normalised place”.
In her subjects, she often gravitates toward exploring icons who society may regard as outsiders as well as those who advocate left, queer, feminist, humanist and cultural politics.
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- Date written:
- 2014
- Last updated:
- 2014
