Big Butch Billboard (Mobile Billboard)

Big Butch Billboard is a bold public art project which was shown at the Australian Centre for Photography and as a mobile billboard touring metro and Western Sydney as part of the 2009 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. A wry homage to the iconic 1989 billboard, Maria Kozic is Bitch, the new version features a local lesbian tomboy, playing with the vexed issues of representation of women and queer people. Renowned internationally for her socially engaged artworks, Deborah Kelly has been exhibiting for 30 years and in 2001 collaborated with Tina Fiveash on the prize-winning public artwork series, Hey, Hetero!, which most recently was exhibited in The 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art: Make it New in Greece, and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia.