The Huxleys by Jo Duck
Will and Garrett Huxley (Aus/Gumbaynggirr/Yorta Yorta) are Melbourne-based collaborative performance and visual artists. Who work together as The Huxleys.
The Huxleys are a dynamic duo of cataclysmic proportion who present camp commentary and spectacle across the visual art, performance and entertainment sectors. Their photography and performance art traverses the classifications of costume, film and recording. A visual assault of sparkle, surrealism and the absurd, The Huxleys saturate their practice and projects with a glamorous, androgynous freedom which sets out to bring some escapism and magic to everyday life.
Since 2014 The Huxleys have performed, exhibited and participated in numerous exhibitions, projects and events in Australia, and internationally in London, Berlin, Moscow and Hong Kong. Solo presentations, performances and commissions include the Melbourne International Arts Festival; Melbourne Fashion Week; Sydney Contemporary; Hong Kong Design Week; Heide Museum of Modern Art; Art Bank, Melbourne; NGV; AGNSW; QAGOMA; AGSA; AGWA and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; The Huxleys first came to prominence during the early years of MONA FOMA and Dark Mofo in Tasmania.
The Huxleys photographs are included in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; HOTA, Gold Coast; The Besen Foundation, Melbourne and the Pictures Collection at the State Library of Victoria.
The Huxleys consist of Will and Garrett Huxley. To show solidarity with the flight for gay marriage Garrett took on Will’s surname. This was also to commemorate their ongoing love and connection as partners of over 15 years. In the early days of working together when Will and Garrett would show up in costume, performers and audiences would say “look the Huxleys are here!” and this kept happening so they decided to adopt the joining of their names as a message of love and unity through their relationship and work and have continued working with this artistic moniker, gifted to them by the artistic community of Melbourne which they love and adore.
The Huxleys live and work on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and wish to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land, paying respect to elders past, present, and emerging. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Creative Couples: Will & Garrett, ABC TV Documentary, 2017
The Huxleys are available for bookings for galeries, parties, events and anything with a disco ball. Bespoke performance works and costumes can be commissioned for unique happenings. They have a wider family of performance artists ready to assemble including singers, dancers and glamorous illuminati.
The Huxleys are represented for fine art by Murray White Room. Please contact The Huxleys for any enquiries.
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The Huxleys CV
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
Garrett Huxley
1996-1998 Bachelor of Visual Arts (photography); Griffith University, Queensland College of The Arts
Will Huxley
2000-2003 Bachelor of Arts, Double Master Film and Photography, Edith Cowan University
2004-2006 Graduate Diploma Honours Film, Victoria College of the Arts
HUXLEY SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Bloodlines, Sydney Festival/Carriageworks/Sydney World Pride
2022
Disgraceland, Murray White Room/Vogue Living
2021
Places of Worship, Murray White Room X Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
2020
Unbalanced, https://www.thehuxleys.com.au/photography-portfolio/unbalanced
Postcards From the Edge, The Bowery Theatre, Melbourne
2019
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, City Square, Scott Alley & Federation Square, Melbourne
Finalists for Victorian Premiers Design Award
2018
Postcards From the Edge, Albert Street Gallery, Melbourne
2015
Female Trouble, Gallery One Three, Melbourne
2014
Carnival of the Animals, Gallery One Three, Melbourne
HUXLEY GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCE ART
2023
Sydney Festival 23, Sydney
Sydney World Pride, Sydney
Coming Back Out Salon, Sydney
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Sydney
Midsumma Festival 2023, Melborune
Bendigo Art Gallery, Australiana: Designing a Nation, Bendigo
Bendigo Pride, Bendigo
David Roche Foundation, Adelaide
HOTA, Pop Masters, Gold Coast
National Gallery of Victoria, Art of the Bloom
2022
Midsumma Festival/Melbourne Pride, Melborune
Assembly Point, City of Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland
Queer, National Gallery of Victoria
Hemut Newton in Focus, Melbourne
PHOTO 22, Exhitbion and Performance, Melbourne
Garden State Festival, Melbourne
The Rising, Melbourne
Lancôme, Sydney
Culture Vault, NFT Exhibtion, Sydney
Darwin Festival, Northern Territory
Brisbane Festival, Queensland
HOTA, Gold Coast
Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
Queensland Collage of the Arts, Brisbane
Catherine Martin/Mokum, Sydney
Coming Back Out Ball, Melbourne
Meredith Music Festival
Commes Des Garcons, 10th, Melbourne
2021
The Love Boat, City of Yarra, Melbourne
As Camp As Christmas, Metro Tunnel, City of Melbourne, Exhibition and Performance
Huxleys Extreme & Unapologetic, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Australian Love Stories, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Ceramix Exhibition, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
HOTA Permanent Collection, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast
HOTA Opening, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast
Disco Instamatic, Abbotsford Convent, Midsumma Festival, Melbourne
Illuminate Adelaide Festival, Adelaide
Rupauls Drag Race, Stan TV, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, Sydney
All the Queens Men, Heide Art Gallery, Melbourne
Quarantine Art Fair, Murray White Room, Portsea
2020
Uptown Exhibition, Murray White Room, City of Melbourne, Melbourne
Melbourne Music Week, Melbourne
Melbourne Fashion Week, Melbourne
NightVisions, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
Schlockdown, Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne
Isol-Aid Festival, Australia
Toad Busting, NGV Design Week, Bottom Art Space, Melbourne
Wildlife Victoria Benefit Show, Howler, Melbourne
Launch of Mardi Gras Festival, The Imperial Hotel, Sydney
Mona Foma, MONA, Launceston
2019
Meredith Music Festival, Australia
Yes Fest, Braddon, Canberra
Geelong Arts Centre (relaunch), Geelong
The Capitol Theatre (reopening), RMIT, Melbourne
Here Comes the Fun, Melbourne Fashion Week, Melbourne
Disrupters in Residence, HOTA, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast
Innovative Costume of the 21st Century, State Historical Museum, Moscow
Dark Path & Night Mass, Dark Mofo, MONA, Hobart
Reopening of The Capitol Theatre, RMIT, The Capitol Theatre, Melbourne
Art Ball, Art Gallery of West Australia, Perth
BAD, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
The Huxleys perform at Guardians Exhibit, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
The Art of Dining, NGV, Melbourne
Glory, Ballet Lab, Temperance Hall, Melbourne
Love Exhibition, Immigration Museum, Melbourne
Fearless, Seymour Centre, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, Sydney
Queer Art After Hours, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Queen Kong, Arts Centre, Melbourne
Midsumma Carnival, Main Stage, Melbourne
2018
Meredith Music Festival, Melbourne
Hong Kong Design Week, Hong Kong
Love Exhibition, Heide Museum and Immigration Museum, Melbourne
The Archibald Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong
Femme Fresh, Arts House, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
Dark Mofo, MONA, Hobart
Junction Festival, Launceston
The Fashion Capsules, Melbourne Fashion Week, Arts Centre, Melbourne
Greater Together, PICA, Perth
Sawtooth X Blindside, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Spring 1883, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne
Night Mass, Dark Mofo, MONA, Hobart
Top of the World, John Wardle Architects, Melbourne
Portal Gallery, Sawtooth Ari Gallery, Launceston
Artbank, Melbourne
Queer Art After Hours, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Midsumma Gala, Melbourne Town Hall, Midsumma Festival, Melbourne
2017
Romancing The Skull, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
Meredith Music Festival, Melbourne
All Of My Friends Were There, Melbourne Festival, Theatre Works, Melbourne
Discordia, Fairfax Theatre, Arts Centre, Melbourne
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks, Sydney
For Curious Eyes Only, Melbourne Fashion Week, City Gallery, Melbourne
The House of Dior, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Salon Of Spirits, Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, Melbourne
Pizazz On A Plate, Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine
An Unnatural History, AIDC, ACMI, Melbourne
Queer Art After Hours, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2016
Sugar Spin, GOMA, Brisbane
Parramatta Lanes, Parramatta, NSW
Dark Side of The Rainbow, Picture Berlin Festival, Berlin
Happy Chance, Wilton Way, London
Flesh Fanatics, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
Creative Collective, MSFW, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne
Duets, La Mama Theatre, Melbourne
Retro Futurismus, Forty Five Downstairs, Melbourne
Funeral Party, Dark Mofo, MONA, Hobart
Blacklist, Dark Mofo, MONA, Hobart
The Best of the Best, NGV, Melbourne
Got To Be Real, AIDC, ACMI, Melbourne
2015
The Other Side of the Rainbow, Besen Foundation, Melbourne
Diamond Dogs, M Pavilion, Melbourne
Fur Real, Naomi Milgrim Foundation, M Pavilion, Hellenic Museum, Melbourne
Shut Up & Dance, The Arts House, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
The Side Part, The Arts House, Melbourne
The Bakehouse Project, Bakehouse Studios, Melbourne
Blacklist, Dark Mofo, MONA, Hobart
Dress Loud, Melbourne Fashion Festival, Bakehouse Studios, Melbourne
2014
The Smoking Owl, Gallery One Three, Melbourne
The Bakehouse Art Project, Bakehouse Studios, Melbourne
Merging, Gallery One Three, Melbourne
Patternation, Melbourne Fashion Week, The Carlton Club, Melbourne
Inquisitarium, Art at One Gallery, Melbourne
Personal Insignia (photography) Darebin’s Active Spaces, Melbourne
COMMISSIONS & GRANTS
2022
The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
Finalist National Portrait Gallery Portrait Prize
2019
Metro Tunnel & Melbourne Fashion Week Collaboration
Creative Vic, Melbourne
2018
Art Bank, Melbourne
2017
Australian Council for the Arts, Melbourne
Besen Foundation, Melbourne
2015
Besen Foundation, Melbourne
Naomi Milgrim Foundation, Melbourne
LINKS
https://www.willhuxley.com/art
https://www.garretthuxley.com/about
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Sydney Morning Herald, by Lenny Ann Low, January 10th
The Guardian, by Kate Cunningham, 6th January
Broadsheet Melbourne, by Jo Walker 4th January
Vault Magazine, Artefacts, Jan 2023
2022
Good Weekend, The Age, by Rachelle Unreich, April 23rd
Spectrum, The Age, Gabriella Coslovich, June 29th
Archer Magazine, Issue 17, Frenchie Holliday, June
2021
The Canberra Times, 'Too Much is Never Enough' by Amy Martin, 10 May 2021
Vault Magazine, Nov – Jan Issue 36, by Alexia Petsinis, Nov 2021
2020
Spectrum, The Age, 'Deep Beneath Melbourne' by Andrew Stephens, 18 Dec 2020
The Guardian, 'Frenzied, Terrified, Horny, Lurid, The Huxleys Unbalanced' by Nick Buckley, 21 Oct 2020
The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Beautiful Things in the Darkness' by Garry Maddox, 2nd Oct 2020
The Australian, 'Wild Ride at Mona Foma's Flight of Fancy' 22 January 2020
Broadsheet, 'I Went to Mona Foma and Now I Want Every Flight to Begin with a Drag Queen Spritzing my Face' by Che-Marie Trigg, 21 January 2020
2019
Victorian State Government, Metro Tunnel Creative Program, 'Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams' September 2019
Australian Arts Review, 'On the Couch with The Huxleys', March 2019
Innovative Costume of the XXI Century-Next Generation, published by State Historical Museum Moscow
Eat the Problem, book published by MONA
Keeping the Scene Unreal, The Weekend West, by Jessie Stoelwinder 25th May
More is More, Less is a Bore, Art Collector/Art Edit Magazine, by Michael Kruger Autumn
Glitterarti, The Sunday Times Magazine by Damien Woolnough 12th May
2018
Agents Provocateurs, Vogue Living Australia, by Annemarie Kiely Nov/Dec
Silence is Golden for Glitter Covered Huxleys, Sungenre, by Sarah Wood May
2017
The Huxleys, Oyster Magazine, by Claudio Santoro Dec
The Huxleys- Will and Garrett, Laud Magazine, by Becca Gilmartin Nov
Creative Couples on The Huxleys, ABC Arts Feature, August
Amateur Hour TV feature on The Huxleys Feb
An eclectic collection of art brings a fabulous sense of spontaneity to homes,
Sydney Morning Herald, by Heather Nette King 9th Feb
2015
The Bakehouse Project, Book published by Schwartz City 2015
2014
Open house on some fresh-baked ideas at Bakehouse Studios,
Sydney Morning Herald, by Annabel Ross 11th July
Musee Magazine No.10 Vol 2 – Ritual, November
COLLECTIONS
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Home of the Arts, HOTA, Gold Coast, Queensland
Besen Foundation, Melbourne
The Huxleys studio visit
photos by Jo Duck
