Painter Sarah Jane Moon

Sarah Jane Moon is a painter who specialises in portraiture and figurative painting. Her
work explores identity, sexuality and gender presentation as well as interrogating formal
painterly concerns.

Roxana Halls – Weimar & Other Earthly Desires

Roxana Halls expresses what it is to be a women in her narative paintings that take you into a hidden world of fancy dress and surreal moments that can be unflinchingly uncomfortable whilst daring you to look away.

Lena Rosa Händle

Lena Rosa Händle’s artistic practice and research deals with queer feminist discourses …

Senith – Italian Queer Drag Performer

Senith is the art director of the biannual international queer festival GendErotica. She has been a queer drag performer, organiser of workshops and events, as well as a queer activist, for more than a decade.

Artist Statement by Suzie Pindar

I go by the name of The Naked Artist – Suzie Pindar. As an artist I am constantly evaluating the world around me and the wide range emotions that are evoked deep within by all that inspires me.

PHASE by SAMANIA

Queer Feminist Artist/Scholar duo SAMANIA (Samira Mahboub + Ania Catherine) release the art project PHASE: A response to those who tell queer women “It’s just a phase.”

Sculptor Helena Rubčić

Sculptor Helena Rubčić:
Through a collection of wooden sculptures I am trying to show to the observers my view of the world and the human personality. The sculptures are made of two materials – wood (natural) and metal (unnatural) which negate each other but make a whole.

[HOMOCHROMIES] by Red Bind

Artist statement by RED BIND – Gilivanka Kedzior and Barbara Friedman. Photos by Alexandra Laval, David Michael Clarke and Barbara Friedman. [HOMOCHROMIES] An art project featuring an installation (images and sound) and performative interventions by RED BIND – Gilivanka Kedzior and Barbara Friedman in collaboration with Céline San-Martin who is…

“Nothing But Light” by Anastasia Kuba

Text and artworks by Anastasia Kuba Photograph from the series ‘Nothing But Light’ by Anastasia Kuba, 2015 Artist Statement by Anastasia Kuba Anastasia Kuba: ‘“Nothing But Light” explores concepts of boundaries,vulnerability, and consent. We all experience the world through our bodies. The body is the easiest target for disrespect, worship,…

Ester Fleckner – How to spell a sound that is physical

A woodcut print by Ester Fleckner.   Ester Fleckner – How to spell a sound that is physical 10 April – 9 May 2015 at Avlskarl Gallery, Bredgade 28, Copenhagen, Denmark Opening hours: Wednesday-Friday 1 pm – 6 pm. Saturday 12 pm – 3 pm. The exhibition How to spell a…

Stigma

Stigma. Press photo courtesy Heidi Lunabba. Heidi Lunabba in collaboration with Anne Pietarinen Stigma Photographs and installation Galleria Huuto, Jätkäsaari 2, Helsinki, Finland 23 January – 8 February 2015 Welcome to the opening on Friday 23.1 2015 at 8pm! Who invites cockroaches over for a sleepover? Who wants to go…

Intermedia Artist Aja Rose Bond

Artist statement by Aja Rose Bond Triangle Fort by Aja Rose Bond in collaboration with Caroline Ballhorn, Alicia Cha and Heather Dawn Jones. Photo courtesy of Aja Rose Bond.   Artist Statement by Aja Rose Bond I am an intermedia artist with background in music, craft and fashion respectively, drawing…

Dolly Wilde’s Picture-Show

Artist statement by Rebecca Nesvet “And still they come and go: and this is all I know– That from the gloom I watch an endless picture-show…” Siegfried Sassoon, “Picture-Show” (1920) Playwrite Rebecca Nesvet about her Dolly Wilde’s Picture-Show When I read Sassoon’s ‘Picture-Show’, the poem doesn’t call up only the…

Nest by Coral Short

Artist statement by Coral Short Nest by Coral Short. Photos courtesy of the artist. Description: Nest is an interactive sculpture that is about caring for our community’s cultural workers and activists. I encouraged the audience at The Hemispheric Institute Encuentros to unwind by finding my large, human-sized nest on wheels…