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‘Lingering’ by Lydia Trethewey

This comic by Lydia Trethewey was published in Westerly Online Special Issue (OSI15): Graphic Narratives—Westerly’s first ever comics issue. Launched in collaboration with the Perth Comic Arts Festival and curated by guest editor Per Henningsgaard, we’re delighted to showcase emerging and established storytellers in this sector and are excited to include comics in the pages of future issues.

OSI15 is available to download in its entirety for free here.

Lydia Trethewey is a visual artist and poet based in Western Australia. She currently works as a sessional academic in the Department of Art at Curtin University, where she teaches visual art. Having completed a PhD in visual art at Curtin in 2018, she is now undertaking a PhD in poetry. Her dual interest in writing and art has naturally brought her to comics, a new space in which she hopes to develop her practice. Lydia has long been interested in the visual dimensions of language and the narrative capacity of visuality. Her previous research includes the creation of experimental artist books and text-based artworks, including the artwork series and artist book Touch, Sleep, Trains (exhibited at The Lobby, WA, 2018), which explored the tactility of transit daydreams, and the artwork series Apophenia (exhibited at Nyisztor Studio, WA, 2022), which sought an expression of playful queerness between image and word. Lydia’s creative writing has appeared in various publications, including Meniscus Journal, Beyond Queer Words, and The Ekphrastic Review. Her artworks have been exhibited in a number of shows in Australia, China, Spain, France, and Poland.

Lingering

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