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ARTERY: no. 3 features creative responses from emerging Australian writers, to emerging Western Australian artist Josef Quinn’s multimedia collage Torso (2025). Through original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and experiments in-between, each writer offers unique ways of looking at Josef's work while expanding upon its themes. This is a collection interested in the body as it interacts with self-creation and deconstruction, with intimacy and alienation, and with processes of change—both inside and outside the self.
Torso is a part of the White T-Shirt series; these works engage with notions of queer and trans embodiment through material investigation and process-based methodologies. Utilising worn white t-shirts and scanned abstracted photographs of the body, Josef constructs a woven, tactile self-portrait that operates as both object and metaphor. The work critically examines identity as a site of continuous construction, through repetition, deconstruction, and iterative making. By interweaving the white t-shirt with digital and manual processes, Torso explores the entanglement of memory, corporeality, and personal archives, foregrounding the body as both subject and medium within a broader discourse of queer material practices.
Image courtesy the artist and ARTERY. Photography by Alex Rogers.
