GoGo Art Series

The GoGo Art Series is a not-for-profit independent contemporary art space, offering a non–traditional platform for exhibiting informative and experimental work that is both provocative and controversial.

GOGO ART SERIES:

Presents Tethered Desire by Kitty Chrystal

Tethered Desire is a series of oil paintings that explore queer embodiment through camp, excess and contradiction. Populated by exaggerated figures adorned in shimmering fabrics, painted lips and slick skin, the works move between intimacy and performance, empowerment and objectification, humour and unease. Through recurring gestures, colour palettes and relationships between figures, the series examines how femme identity is continually rehearsed, remade and rendered visible. Drawing on queer, feminist and sex worker subcultures, these paintings consider the body as a site where desire, representation and social meaning are produced and contested, foregrounding the tensions and possibilities of visibility itself.

Artwork Labels 

GoGo Wall Installation (left to right)

1. Apple Bobbing, 2025, oil on canvas, 71.1 x 55.8cm, $2000

2. Splitting Wood, 2025, oil on canvas, 111.7 x 137.1 cm, $2500

3. Turbid Night, 2025, oil on canvas, 68.5 x 78.5cm, $2000

4. I’ll gallop to you, 2025, oil on canvas, 76.5 x 56cm, $2000

5. Sleep Drips From the Foliage, 2025, oil on canvas, 106.68 x 142.24 cm, $3500

6. Words Beneath the Sentence, 2026, oil on canvas, 71.5 x 56cm, $2000

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kitty Chrystal is a visual artist working on unceded Wurundjeri land whose practice uses oil painting to explore figuration as a site of queerness, trauma and embodied experience. Drawing on aesthetics of glamour, labour, self-performance and risk, their paintings depict sexualised bodies navigating the unstable terrain between fantasy and survival. Through shifting perspectives, charged uses of light and shadow, and an emphasis on movement, Kitty pushes femininity toward the unruly and strange, employing camp as a strategy of amplification and resistance.

Working primarily in oil paint, Kitty engages with the conceptual and material legacies of figurative painting, positioning their work within contemporary queer andfeminist discourse. Their practice moves between loose, gestural brushwork imbued with speed and play, and more tightly rendered passages informed by the traditions of European Old Master painting. By bringing visual codes from queer and sex worker subcultures into dialogue with the historical weight of oil painting, the work challenges the medium’s legacy of objectification and exclusion while reclaiming figuration as a space for agency and self-definition.

FOR SALE ENQUIRIES

Email: kittychrystal92@gmail.com

Website: www.kittychrystal.com

Instagram: @kittychrystal

PROJECTION ART SERIES:

Presents Geryon, Please!

by l o c a l h o s t : (Georgia Rumble and Will Bennie) in

collaboration with LJ Connolly-Hiatt

“Geryon was a monster everything about him was red.”

Geryon, Please! captures the dance performance Solo for Red by LJ Connolly-Hiatt. It is a dedication to Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson: a tribute to tender hands, queer feelings and what it means to be immersed in a world that is not quite real. In Greek Mythology, Geryon is a minor character: a humanoid with three bodies, three heads and three sets of shields and swords. The performance is captured through a depth-sensing camera, transforming the body into a three-dimensional field of points and vectors.. It is about being red, red landscape, red colour, hearing red, that red spot in the centre of the pelvis, being Geryon.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

l o c a l h o s t : is an emerging spatial practice duo based in Naarm, comprising Georgia Rumble and Will Bennie. Their work investigates the convergence of physical and digital 3D practices, exploring opportunities for how research-informed world-building can communicate and inhabit hyper-scale concerns. Through spatial narratives and speculative world-building, l o c a l h o s t : engages with contemporary cultural, political and ecological conditions, interrogating their entanglement with emerging technologies.

LJ Connolly-Hiatt, collaborating with l o c a l h o s t : on this project, is a contemporary dancer and sexologist based in Naarm. They create both solo and collaborative works, and have performed with artists including Shelley Lasica, Rebecca Jensen and Lilian Steiner. Their practice is informed by tentacular thinking, carrier bag theory, and an ongoing obsession with pigeons.

FOR ENQUIRIES

Email: hellolocalhost@hotmail.com

Website: local-host.au

Instagram:

@geor.giarumble

@willlbennie

@_in_movement

CREDITS

Direction, capture, and production: l o c a l h o s t : (Georgia Rumble and Will Bennie)

Performer and choreography: LJ Connolly-Hiatt

Text excerpts from Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red.