Artist’s statement about the new photography book by Alex Spear: ‘Masculinity is A Mask’, showing an androgynous US model Laura in the guise of her non-binary alter ego Trystan.
Category: Featured Artists
Elli Asker: As an artist, my identity as a lesbian informs my work not only in terms of subject matter but also in how I approach the act of creation itself. My photography is a means of reclaiming and redefining the gaze…
Barbary O’Brien: I am a Queer Feminist Artist, Cartoonist, Mural painter, Designer and Environmentalist living, surfing, and working at Ratalang/Middleton, on the South Coast of South Australia.
Aileen McKay: My ‘Scota’ acrylic on canvas series gives form to the blue-on-blue horizons that Scota, Scotland’s migrant foremother might have seen as she led her matriarchal followers across the seas from Egypt…
New works by Barbara Gibson.
Collage: YOUR OWN LUCK (2024), Barbara Gibson.
Henriette Hellstern: Regrettably, instead of embracing our differences as opportunities for growth and understanding, our collective consciousness often succumbs to the temptation of hurling mud at one another. …
Artist’s Statement by Mary T Faria about her latest photography book: Lingering at your window by Mary T Faria (Datz Press, 2023)
“A hill is a hill until you see it as a holy mountain and a sacred place belonging to our ancestors.” – Birthe Havmøller
Illustration: How to cut a cloud into two halves (2023) by Birthe Havmøller
Portrait photographer Shelby Sharie Cohen took Kinky BDSM photographs of Butches and Femmes in the 1980s. She photographed for On Our Backs.
Kallie Genzale is an American queer artist who makes paintings and works on paper. In this artist’s statement Kallie presents a series of recent acrylic paintings.
Three illustrations: Mnasidika’s Breasts, Crazy Embrace and Desire by Dganit Greier (US). The 19th-century sapphic love poems, “Les Chanson de Bilitis” by Pierre Louys accompany the illustrations.
Psychedelic O’Keeffe by Denise Cumming. The female figure with a male elk skull celebrates the masculine and feminine within us all.
Michela Griffo, a long-term queer feminist activist and a visual artist, is based in New York. She has exhibited widely since the early 1970s.
I am unconcerned with figurative details in my paintings. Emotions are expressed broadly, through the body. Intricacies in facial expression, dress, or limb are minimal or nonexistent. The focus is on the body, a vessel for pleasure, desire, dreams, reflection.
Kavel Rafferty: Queer Flowers at White Conduit Project Gallery, London, July 20-25, 2021.
Renée Jacobs is one of the most celebrated photographers of the female nude of our time. Recipient of the prestigious International Photography Award for Fine Art Nude, her work has been exhibited and published around the world. Her photography books PARIS and POLAROIDS are currently open for pre-sales.
Laurie Edison: I’ve been walking & living in the shadow of the pandemic and the lockdown, photographing the Pandemic Shadows that I see everywhere.
My work is an exploration of identity, vulnerability and courage. My subjects have accepted that they are not meant to fit in but to stand out…
‘Something I Want to Tell You – Big Paintings by Pamela Dodds’ at Suite 215 Gallery, 78th Street Studios Building, 1300 W 78th St, Cleveland, Ohio, 44102, USA , thru July, 2020.
Rachel Ara is a conceptual and data artist who explores the relationships between gender, technology and systems of power. Her works are nonconformist with a socio-political edge that often incorporates humour and irony with feminist and queer concerns.