ANDREW SUTHERLAND AUTHOR & THEATRE PRACTITIONER

WRITING

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I am a writer and performance-maker from between Boorloo (Perth) and Singapore, now based in Naarm on the unceded lands of the Kulin nation. I am Queer and Poz (PLHIV), and my work draws on the viral instabilities of identity, pop culture and the autofictive self. I am widely published as a poet, and (less widely lol) published as a fiction and non-fiction writer. I will do my best to archive some of these publications here. My debut poetry collection Paradise (point of transmission) was published by Fremantle Press in 2022, and my second, Act Cute, is forthcoming in July 2025. You can buy these from Fremantle Press’ website, or ask your local bookstore. Preferably, you will not use Amazon to buy my books.

I work in the performance space as collaborative maker, director, performer, dramaturg, arts educator, and mentor. I have been part of the creation of a range of performance works across the independent sector. Many of these works you will be able to read about on this website! I am also currently a PhD candidate at Victorian College of the Arts, pursuing practice-as-research on the 'haunted repertoires' surrounding the HIV+ undetectable subject.

I acknowledge that I currently live on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin nation. Much of my creative work has been made on this land, and even more of my creative work has been made on the unceded lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. I pay my respects to Elders past and present. I acknowledge that I am a settler on stolen lands, and the inheritor of ongoing legacies of colonialism, occupation, and genocide that have led to me living on these lands.

Image credits on this page: Unnatural (2024) - Phoebe Eames, Mother of Compost (2022) - Dan McBride, Unveiling: Gay Sex for Endtimes (2017) - Marshall Stay, Salome delta (2022) - Brandon Ward, small & cute oh no (2021) - David Cox, 30 Day Free Trial (2020) - Dana Weeks, Jiangshi (2019) - Tasha Faye, cover art for Paradise (point of transmission) and Act Cute - Fremantle Press

Forgiveness (work-in-progress)