Angelique’s current practice involves creating detailed soft-sculptures from vintage textiles, based on botanical or coded forms. Angelique imagines these forms as caring biomorphic-tech creatures – little cyborgs. These creatures emerge as non-human kin, offering divergent modes of care (maternal/posthuman).
Each form unfolds from and to a text- a story, an experience or an imagining. Each form is a chimera, an assemblage of textual imaginings (method – textual assemblage).
Angelique expands these forms into the digital dimension through photography and 3D scanning, creating virtual and digital encounters with these creatures (cyborg experiences).
With the use of vintage textiles, the aim is to queer, soften and re-imagine hard tech speculations, claiming soft spaces for the misfits and the neuroqueer in our future worlds.
Visual Artist
Neuroqueerling
PhD Candidate @ RMIT School of Art
(M)other, Cyborg Speculations
Textural Assemblages - Analogue & Digital
Textile Artist, Photographer & Writer
Angelique Joy is a multidisciplinary visual artist and early career academic, currently a PhD candidate at the School of Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).
Angelique works with photography, moving image, textile sculpture and digital extensions of their work to explore gender performativity, neuroqueer ways of being and technologically mediated modes of care. They are particularly interested in exploring how each being, both human and non, unfolds and is constructed, performed, and held – within the spaces we inhabit, the spaces we claim, and the spaces we are kept from.
Angelique’s practice is informed by their Neuroqueer lived experience and through the intersecting frameworks of posthumanism, neuro/queer theory and xeno/cyber-feminism. Their current work is exploring technologically mediated selves and divergent modes of care – (M)other, cyborg speculations.
Their early practice used traditional portrait and self-portrait photography, often in a tableau style, with rich layers of text and textiles. As their work has unfolded, the two-dimensional worlds they created with text, costumes, sets, botanicals and textiles have found their way to digital and three-dimensional unfoldings – textual assemblages.
Angelique completed a Masters of Photography at RMIT after finalising their Bachelor of Visual Arts: Photography and a Bachelor of Contemporary Art and Design: Honours at the School of Art, University of South Australia (UniSA).
Angelique has exhibited works nationally as a 2021 Bowness finalist, 2024 and 2015 Fishers Ghost finalist, along with being a 2022 Waterhouse SA Museum finalist. They have shown works internationally at the 2022 Bandung Photography Triennale in Bandung, Indonesia and the 2022 Pingyao International Photography Festival in the Pingyao Ancient City, China. Locally, Angelique has been the recipient of the 2018 FELTspace ARI Graduate Award, and a finalist at the 2019 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition along with being a finalist for the 2019 SALA Festival: Unitedcare Moving Image Award.
Angelique is currently living, working and creating on Kaurna Land (Adelaide), and learning, working and creating in connection with Naarm (Melbourne).