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Kings Artist-Run provides a location for contemporary art practice, supporting distinctive experimental projects by artists at all stages of their careers.
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KINGS Artist-Run acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate.

We offer our respect to Elders both past and present and extend this offer to all Australian First Nations people.

Know how to know how to

Anita Cummins
Caoife Power
Jacqui Driver
Kari Lee McInneny-McRae


06 March 2025–30 March 2025

Can we find our own beauty when we move away from the ease of familiarity?

This exhibition shares a queer-crip mentality. Linking the work of four artists across different generations, it explores how physical experiences of the body (sighs/ bodily gestures/ push-pull of our muscles and movement) affect the way we live, how we make art,  and how we exhibit it. Know how to know how to is about the conditions that institutional structures trap our crip bodies inside. It’s about being crip and being able to expand and stretch away.  Through  re-claiming, speaking, sharing, wobbling and art making, we offer moments of our own minds and bodies , comorbidities of pain and glimmerings.

Important to this exhibition is our conditions of care and vulnerability for our art, each other and the community we invite to participate.

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  • Anita Cummins (they/them) is a white, neurodivergent and queer artist and researcher living on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people in Naarm (Melbourne). Anita makes work that explores crip and queer identity and the wider systems to which these experiences relate. Their work aims to seek out and uncover alternative modes, methods and visualisations of radical coping, healing and recovery. They often use arduous rhythmic and repetitive methodologies as a mechanism for the processing and exploration of these complex states.
  • Caoife Power (b. 1993, Eire Ireland/ 1997, Eora Sydney, Australia) lives and works in Narrm, Melbourne. Caoife is a process driven artist based within painting and poetry. Caoife is interested in the language of painting from a queer(ing) position and how it can speak to: affect theory, disabled embodiment, colour and wildness. Her embodied position drives her way of understanding ‘unruly’ subjectivity, unpacking how the impact of contemporary society can sit within the body and shift the way it moves through the world. Using abstraction, Caoife is not interested in resolution, but finding a point of reclamation and freedom that sits within a place of inexactness.
  • Jacqui Driver is a printmaking artist living and working on Gadigal land. Driver’s practice uses multi-panel lithographs to form the basis of her work. Her thickets explore the entanglement of living with chronic pain, the mental health challenges involved and the myriad pathways of coping.
  • Kari Lee McInneny-McRae (they/them) is a Naarm based artist. Their practice explores connection to materiality and place. Themes arising in their work are; memory deconstructing, feelings, queer/crip/mad theories, process philosophy, the study of language and semantics and the study of materiality and material processes.