Bio

My illustrative practice is largely figurative, exploring themes including queer experiences of the body, eroticism, the internet, technology, and digital culture through an inquisitive and playful approach to both subject and medium. I have a particular interest in printmaking; my projects this year have included screenprinting, cyanotype, linocut, risograph and monoprint.​ Recently, I've been interested in how different processes leave their individual mark and how the image is changed by nature of the process.

Alongside my personal illustrative practice, this year I have involved myself in the local nightlife scene, organising, marketing and designing for independent events such as TRANS/CENDENCE, a fundraiser for trans mutual aid. These projects tied into my interest in graphic design, also shown in my two publications, G*NDERSHIT and A World of Plenty. My strong belief in the importance of underground queer media and less mainstream perspectives is another thread running through my work. I strive to depict unsanitised gay and trans experiences, not shying away from the erotic or conflicting. These are often expressed with dynamic linework, a sense of humour, and a lot of pink.

Concertina minizine, risograph and collage

Part of a larger project exploring trans relationships to the body through a cyborg lens, PLAYBOT features ten illustrations with fold-out elements inspired by centrefolds of pinup magazines. The whimsical illustrations quietly naturalise bodies in transition by contrasting them with cyborg and robotic elements that appear more pressingly ‘unnatural’ (as trans bodies are often accused of being). 

Cyanotyped hardcover artist book, handbound with needle

A World of Plenty uses cyborgs as a metaphor to interrogate society's relationships to transness, gender, nature and technology, and their intersections through a mixture of poetry, writing, illustration and collage. The book touches on false ideas of a 'natural' body, the rejection of categorisation, and taking autonomy over your experience of your body to suit your needs.

Registered as a non-profit in 2022, G*NDERSHIT ZINE COLLECTIVE consists of three other illustrators and myself. I curate and designed our annual zines. Each issue is made up of submissions from Scottish based artists and writers responding to the issue's theme of a particular space through a queer lens; issue 1 explored toilets as gendered spaces both public and private, issue 2 discussed queer experiences of cyberspace, and our latest issue celebrates queer nightlife as a space of community tension, love, lust, and freedom.

All profits from the zine and our other merchandise go towards UK trans mutual aid funds. Alongside creating handmade prints, we run workshops, club nights, and have tabled at art events across the UK.

www.g-ndershit.com
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