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‘Young Monsters’ at Lychee One: a conversation with curator Marcelle Joseph on contemporary masculinities

The exhibition ‘Young Monsters ‘, on show at Lychee One until 26 October 2019, has been curated by London-based American independent … More

contemporaryart, curatorialpractice, gender, genderperformativity, installationart, lgbtq+art, londonart, masculinity, queerlondon, sculpture

Independent curator Camilla Cole introducing ‘We Sing The Body Electric’ at Gallery 46

“All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body, or of any one’s body, male or … More

artlondon, contemporaryart, curatorialpractice, femaleagency, feministart, feministcurating, genderidentity, intersectionality, londonart, malegaze, queerbodies, queercurating, queeridentity

A celebration of historic LGBTQ+ spaces at Whitechapel Gallery

Performers masqueraded as ten of London’s iconic LGBTQ+ buildings opened the reception for ‘Queer Spaces: London, 1980s-Today‘ last April at … More

contemporaryart, contemporaryphotography, gentification, hannahquinlan, lgbtq+art, londonart, premsahib, queerspaces, ralphdunn, rosiehastings, whitechapelgallery

“Oozing” bodies: ‘Tender Rip’ at Auto Italia, a collaborative project by Anna McMahon and Spence Messih

“Spilling, spitting is a recurrent concept in our thought. Images ripple our minds such as a bathtub in an earthquake; … More

abstraction, annamcmahon, artlondon, autoitalialive, contemporaryart, gendernonconforming, installationart, metalwork, opacity, queer, queercurating, spencemessih, stainedglass, tenderrip, transnarratives

‘Sink’ at the Space Theatre: a “wonky” coming of age play by Tobias Graham

8.5/10-Francesco Ferranti A house party, a sink surrounded by empty plastic cups and bottles, a group of friends who are … More

comingofage, forewordfestival, lgbtq, masculinity, patrickbone, playwright, pride, queerart, queertheatre, queeryouth, sink, tobiasgraham

‘FLUID’: Exploring Gender Fluidity in Contemporary Culture at Espacio Gallery

Artists collective Human IEU presents ‘FLUID’, a group show bringing together the work of eleven artists on the concept of … More

assemblage, bodyart, bodymanipulation, collage, digitalart, drawing, emergingartists, genderfluid, humanieu, installationart, lgbtq, londonart, malebody, mathiasvef, portraitphotography, queer, queerart, queercurating, sculpture

Decolonising narratives at ‘MundoLatinx’

‘The exhibition aims at challenging stereotypical narratives around Latin American identity, by deploying the gender-neutral term Latinx, which implies a … More

diaspora, diasporaart, fashionphotography, fashionspacegallery, genderfluid, gendernonconforming, identitypolitcs, latinx, latinxart, lgbtq+art, londonart, portraitphotography, queerart, queeridentity, queerlondon

Metamorphosing bodies: meet London-based artist Marianna Simnett.

Marianna Simnett is a London-based multimedia artist, whose practice merges performance art, video, watercolour, and installation art. Through these media, … More

bodyart, bodymodification, feministart, genderperformativity, installationart, mariannasimnett, queerart, seizure

Experimental Relationship: Chinese-born artist Pixy Liao dismantling relationship stereotypes

Born and raised in Shanghai, Pixy Liao is a photographer currently residing in Brooklyn. Her photographs, sculptures (e.g. Soft-Heeled Shoes), … More

experimentalrelationship, genderequality, genderperformativity, genderroles, heteronormativity, pixyliao, portraitphotography, sexuality

Meet 21-year old collage artist, and drag enthusiast Savana Ogburn.

Savana Ogburn is a young and gifted photographer, collage artist, and set designer based in Atlanta, Georgia. Discovered her through a … More

collageart, drag culture, dragfamily, dreamlike, pastelaesthetic, portraitphotography, queerart, queeridentity, queering, queerness, queerphotography, savanaogburn

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