Ingmar Apinis, Queen

Ingmar Apinis

Queen

2025 

Plaster, acrylic, mesh, epoxy resin, digital print on hydro film

55cm x 45cm

$590

Artist bio:
Ingmar Apinis (he/him) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia whose practice explores post-digital aesthetics and internet culture through a queer lens. 

His working spans in a range of mediums that spans paint, digital printing, plaster and water transfer printing (an industrial production process also known as hydro-dipping).

Ingmar has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at a number of galleries including C3 Contemporary Art Space, Rubicon, Kings Artist Run, Counihan Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre and Artereal Gallery. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (2000), and a Masters of Contemporary Art (2020) at the VCA, and co-founded Brunswick Temporary studios and gallery in 2021.

Ingmar has been a finalist in the Experimental Print Prize at Castlemaine Art Museum, the Nillumbik, Fisher’s Ghost and Wyndham prizes, and the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. Ingmar was awarded the Ursula Hoff Printmaking Award in 2020.

Artwork statement:
Queen comes from an ongoing series called Fauxfacts, which looks to Greco-Roman art and culture for inspiration, a period when mythology was filled with stories of transformation and fluid identities. The ancient Greeks and Romans had a complex, and more open understanding of non-heteronormative desire and gender roles compared to later Western societies shaped by Christianity. 

By alluding to decayed and ruined Greco Roman artefacts (such as frescos, ancient tablets, and amphoras) the work speaks to the loss of queer histories through time, and the act of reclaiming and reconstructing these stories in both the present and the future.