Welcome to the first series of the QUEER AS podcast where we’re yarning with queer Indigenous artists and creative practitioners about their work across the public imaginary.

On today's episode, we chat with painter, textile artist, installation artist and performance artist Troy-Anthony Baylis. A descendant of the Jawoyn people from the Northern Territory, Baylis is part of a larger contemporary movement exploring Indigeneity and sexuality through a cross disciplinary lens, traversing visual art, performance and literature. His multi-faceted artistic practice is founded in the process of ‘queering’ and unsettling traditional ways of representing Aboriginality. Baylis' work has been subject of 29 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions, performances, and publications since 1993, and he was the inaugural recipient of the prestigious Guildhouse Fellowship (2019). In 2026 Wakefield Press will publish a major monograph on the artist’s work that will coincide with him being the 2026 SALA Festival feature artist.

For a full transcript of this episode, and links to artists and works discussed, visit: https://queer-as.org/a-podcast/troy-anthony-baylis/

QUEER AS is part of the Saving Lives research program that recalls and centres the power of queer Indigenous artistic thinking and creativity. This anticolonial podcast is sponsored by the Australian Research Council and in partnership with IndigenousX and the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures.

QUEER AS is hosted by Wiradjuri trans/non-binary creative artist and Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies Sandy O'Sullivan, with settler trans/non-binary researcher, musicker, and radio maker Dr Han Reardon-Smith. Theme music is also by Sandy and Han, and audio editing and podcast production is by Han. Cover art is by Wiradjuri trans/non-binary artist Dylan Barnes.