Drew Pettifer

About

Associate Professor Drew Pettifer is International Lead in the School of Art. Drew is a contemporary artist, writer, curator, and non-practicing lawyer. His research interests include the archive, queer theory, biopower, desire, gender, representation, and contemporary social politics. His creative practice works across photography, video, print, performance, and installation. More recently his practice has operated at the nexus of creative practice, critical theory, and social justice, aiming to transform our understanding of Australian history by using creative practice to foreground critical queer histories which have been systematically excluded from dominant archives. In 2024 he was appointed a Visiting Scholar at the State Library of NSW to research the 'pink bans' of the 1970s and a