EP 31: Celebrating Sexuality Through Painting w. Kezamine

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Keziah is a Naarm-based painter with her own distinct style and narrative. She is also a drag artist with the stage name, Bae b Tooth. Her story is vibrant, brilliant and demonstrates her growth as a person. She has been apart of several different creative avenues; tattooing, animation and painting, where she found her voice!

We talk about her journey into art, her upbringing, sex-positive art, feminism, the male gaze vs female gaze, body image and self-care as we enter our thirties and more.

Keziah grew up in a religious household drawing Disney cartoons and trying to explore live drawing with her siblings. As a teenager, she studied art in high school but didn't have the best experience, which I don't find surprising considering I also had a pretty rough time with tertiary art. As a young adult, she moved to Brisbane and enrolled into TAFE doing an Advanced Diploma in Animation where she ended up finding her people. It was vast contrast of her previous experience - but allowed her to further her exploration of artistry. She moved into tattooing but didn't have the best experience during her apprenticeship. From COVID lockdowns, Kezamine started working on her paintings. From that she is harnessing her skills more.

Kezamine is now living in Naarm, breathing fresh creative energy into her art. She focuses on vibrant and colourful portraiture and expressive poses using the human body through the female gaze. She emphasises the unconventional beauty we all have within us and champions those aspects we may shun.   

About Keziah:
Keziah Gall (Kezamine) is a mixed media artist based in Naarm, Australia (Melbourne). Her practice provokes discussions of gender, sexuality and intimacy, by distorting the perception of the body.

Through the use of a vibrant colour palette and sexually graphic imagery, she welcomes you into her personal world in a way that is inviting, tantalising and stylistically unique to her work. Combining techniques from her studies in animation, comic design and street art, Kezamine’s work is illustrative, bold and unapologetic.

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