Musical Theatre

Queer cultural vernacular suffuses the art of Troy-Anthony Baylis. An avid collector of Minogue music and memorabilia (both Kylie and Dannii), he writes and speaks in song lines in a dual sense—alighting on, say, pop lyrics from Prince to explain the Indigenous concept of the Dreaming.

Sydney-born and Adelaide-based, Baylis has called his new exhibition Yes, , drawing upon the 1950s term for identifying same-sex-attracted men. But audiences have never had to crack a code to out the artist’s