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Issue 04 Online Gallery
Welcome to the Issue 04 Online Gallery, where you can find a preview of our Featured Artist’s work and links to their websites and/or social media platforms so you can easily find your way back to the artists themselves.
For writers, check out our Online Library.
He/Him
James Robert Morrison is a Scottish queer artist with an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. After working in the cultural sector for 17 years, he resumed his art practice in 2019. From drawings on cigarette papers to paintings and collages embellished with embroidery, he approaches his use of media in a playful and open way, creating work that normalises non-heteronormative identities and begins to address the lack of positive representation and visibility that he, and many members of the queer community, didn’t encounter during their formative years.
IG: @james_robert_morrison Web: www.jamesrobertmorrison.com
She/Her
When I paint, it is memory, romance and realism that inspire and drive me. I explore the idea of queer love, and queer life, with focus on my lived experiences.
I draw from my memories to create paintings that I hope convey great emotion. My goal is to make art that feels like a point in time, so that the viewer knows it was once a moving memory, and not just a painting of a figure, or a still life.
IG: @lilygbeallart
She/Her
Khushi Upadhyay is an artist working between UK and India. She works predominantly with black and white analogue photographic processes, illuminating textures, details and overlooked spaces in the urban environment. Upadhyay uses gelatine silver processes due to the tactile nature of the medium.
IG: @khushiaupadhyay
He/Him
Finley-Kit Munro is a freelance illustrator currently based in Northampton, UK. His practice draws on his lived experiences as a gay trans man, often represented through motifs of nature. His expertise lies in digital artwork, with a recent expansion to include collage and other physical forms of making in his practice. One of his biggest inspirations is zines, zine culture and the surrounding community.
IG: @finley.kit
They/Them
Tin Holloway is a Non-binary artist based in Bournemouth who specialises in character design. Typically their work is digital, and often aims to ask: what if? What if carousel horses came to life? What if people had plants growing out of their bodies? Previously they have worked with The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares, and Wakey Wakey Arts to illustrate stories written by children.
IG: @tinhollowayillustration Web: tinhollowayillustration.cargo.site
Adéráyọ̀ works across many disciplines: film, performance, music, and writing. Dissonance is their debut film project, blending poetic visuals, sound, and movement to explore themes of identity, queerness, and belonging. Alongside filmmaking, they have worked as a performer, vocalist, and writer, with a focus on creating emotionally resonant work that amplifies QTIBPOC+ voices and lived experiences
Credits:
Writer, Director, Producer, Lead Actor — Adéráyọ̀
Director of Photography & Editor — Klarissa Webster
Assistant Director, Assistant Producer, Digital Art & Support Actor — Patsy
Original Music & Sound Design — Spike Turner
Co-Starring — Demi Monteith
Videography Contributor & Project Advisor — Melanie Pyne
Featuring Music by — Sam Barker
Film Stills — Klarissa Webster
Poster Photography — Iona Rose Wheeler
Poster Editing & Design — Melanie Pyne
Photographer (Documentary) — Kate McMahon
Makeup (Documentary) — Kala W Makeup
Styling & Brands — ODA & Nire Knit
Photoshoot Directors — Dill Dewal & PonyBoy Glasgow
Hair (Documentary) — Reece Marshall & PonyBoy Hair
Videographer (Documentary) — Hannah Chandler
IG: @aderayo__
Sunny, they/she
Xavi, he
Can fun, kickass rock’n’roll and activism go together?! Hell yeah! The Lürxx play “Nature Warrior Glam Punk”, combining the energy and attitude of glam punk with the awareness and activism of protest songs. Their goal is to “give our listeners the positive energy they need to fight for a better future - and to make them smile and bang their heads in the process!“ The band are fiercely feminist and list anarchy and radical optimism as two philosophies they live by.
IG: @thelurxx Web: www.the-lurxx.com
He/Him
I work as an illustrator primarily painting in Photoshop, my childhood involved a take away upbringing meaning I was surrounded by food and developed a deep love for it from a young age. When I’m not painting illustrations of food, I draw influence from my upbringing and paint LGBT+ narratives hoping to tell stories that show same sex couples enjoying everyday life especially from East Asian countries as that was something that I didn’t see much in my younger years.
IG: @jensenchung Web: www.jensenchung.co.uk
She/Her
Dyana Risko is a London-based visual artist, filmmaker, and actress originally from Budapest. Her work blends emotion, beauty, and transformation across fashion films, music videos, and experimental narratives. Through modelling and performance, she embraced her transition and authentic self. Her films have screened at Raindance and London Short Film Festival, and she has collaborated with brands like de Grisogono, Valentino, and Another Man.
IG: @dyana.films Web: www.dyafilms.com
Joy McKay
She/TheyI like to describe my work as Political Whimsy. How I paint is expressionist, it’s a representation of how I feel about the subject. But there’s usually something deeper too, a message I want to convey.
IG: @joystixx2806 Web: www.joymckay.wordpress.com
He/They
Tyler is a queer and trans photographer. Working in West Midlands and around the UK specialising in event, theatre and music photography. Tyler enjoys creating self-portraits that capture the different stages of his life, which link to his upbringing, capturing his journey and celebrating queerness. Creating these in his spare time allow him to connect with himself and be thankful for every step he has made so far and every step he will continue to take.
IG: @halloumiis
He/Him
I’m a queer Polish-Irish composer exploring identity, belonging, and otherness, shaped by growing up in a small Polish community in Northern Ireland. My work blends Irish and Polish folk with contemporary theatre and classical forms, often using traditional instruments and modal colour. I’m drawn to working-class queer stories set in intimate, everyday, vulnerable spaces like pubs, village halls, childhood bedrooms; where queerness meets the grit of real life: rent, migration, and digital-age connection.
IG: @bartthiede Web: www.bartthiede.com
She/Her/They/Them
DongDong (Dongting Huang) is a London-based interdisciplinary artist working across performance, film, and installation. Her work explores the fragility of the body, the paradox of care and damage, and traces of presence and erasure.
IG: @dong.dongwinter Web: www.dongtingart.com
He/Him
I’m a London-based collage artist working with homoerotic, pre-internet magazines as well as books, postcards, wallpaper, and self-prepared papers. I’m intrigued by the analogy between constructing collages with fragments from diverse sources and the formation of identity and culture. I’m drawn to unexpected points of connection - where a colour, pattern or form links fragments together and I’m fascinated by the oscillating shift between certainty and unease that collage can provoke.
IG: @dbr_collage
He/Him
My art is rooted in my Caribbean heritage and heavily inspired by growing up black and queer in Manchester. I fuse poetry, music and film to tell stories often overlooked. As a multifaceted artist I embrace change and risk-taking in my work. I am passionate about celebrating diversity and personal truth, threading lived experience into every frame, lyric, and line.
IG: @naeuk Web: www.nathaniellloydrichards.co.uk
She/Her
As RAINGIRL, I create music rooted in memory, emotion, and atmosphere.
My Protector is the debut single from RAINGIRL — a moving, instrumental tribute to her older sister. Blending ambient textures, expressive piano, and delicate violin, the track creates a tender soundscape that speaks to love, safety, and childhood memories.
IG: @raingirlmusic Web: www.raingirlmusic.com
He/Him
George Dyer is a London based artist who uses collage as a vehicle to exploring the intersection of masculinity, sexuality and placement. His practice considers the constraints imposed upon black and brown men, but also recognises and celebrates the potential, achievement and worth of this often misrepresented ethnic group. He draws reference from memory and personal experiences, but also from the systems and attitudes (both historic and current) that play into the reductive process of othering.
IG: @georgedyermedia Web: www.georgedyer.uk
He/They
I am a writer who loves to collage to explore growing up queer in an isolated place in the 80s and 90s. My love of pop culture visually expresses the hope and joy I felt as a queer boy avoiding the bullies in the playground.
IG: @fuzzboxed
He/Him
Lux Orion is a trans queer multi-disciplinary artist from Kent, England. His works utilise a variety of mediums, from watercolour to sculpture, and acrylic painting to sewing; encompassing the art of collage to create reflections of himself and his world. After many years of hiatus from creating, within the past year he has focused heavily on the exploration of materials and art forms to find his own art language, always finding opportunities to try new techniques and skills.
IG: @orchidguts Web: orchidguts.cargo.site
Issue 03 Online Gallery
Welcome to the Issue 03 Online Gallery, where you can find a preview of our Featured Artist’s work and links to their websites and/or social media platforms so you can easily find your way back to the artists themselves.
For writers, check out our Online Library.
He/Him
I work from photographs to make images. These are gleaned from social media or the internet. As an older gay man I am interested in using a broad range of masculine images. The idea that there is one ideal of masculine beauty is a myth.
IG: @andysylvester2 Web: www.andysylvesterartist.com
They/Them
I use my work to explore difficult topics that resonate with us all – from mental health and addiction to self-image and gender. As a creative I romanticise parts of the world that appear to be neglected. By combining unlikely mediums such as fashion, textiles, mark making, graphics and photography, I create conceptual art directions and fashion pieces that act as a tangible link between feeling and processing.
IG: @t.greenfashionx Web: linktr.ee/t.greenx
Black Arts History Movement
Inspired by Robin D. G. Kelley’s ‘Freedom Dreams’, B.H.A.M. tells the stories of forgotten freedom struggles. In an honouring of the ancestors, each composition pays tribute to a group who, in the spirit of Sankofa, we could learn lessons from today. B.H.A.M. features some of the most exciting UK-based jazz musicians. Their debut album will be released in February 2025.
B.H.A.M. Members:
S0lar (Vocals) - She/They
Jay Phelps (Trumpet) - He/Him
Gary Washington (Cello) He/Him
Lorenz Okello-Osengor (Keyboard) - He/Him
Romarna Campbell (Drums) She/Her
Arowah (Guitar, Bass) - She/They
IG: @arowahsounds Web: musicalmeditation.co.uk/music
He/Him
Ediz is an illustrator from London whose work primarily involves promotional illustration, publications and comics. He recently graduated from university and now works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. His style can generally be described as cartoonish, and he enjoys capturing mundane and/or domestic moments in his work.
IG: @artyenver
She/Her
Ana Graça (she/her) is a queer latina illustrator from Brazil, now based in London. She specialises in children’s book illustrations and uses a combination of digital and traditional mediums like acrylic gouache, pencils and crayons. Ana loves to create whimsical illustrations and she draws inspiration from the nature in her surroundings, both in Brazil and now in the UK.
IG: @pixieanadraws Web: www.pixieana.com/illustrations
She/They
Violet’s practise focuses on self-portraiture, drawing heavily on her life experiences as her primary material. She finds inspiration in folklore, mythology, symbolism, and nature. Her work is characterised by her use of bold and vivid colour to create surreal, other-worldly dreamscapes. As of late, she has been producing a body of work influenced by her time in therapy, the way nature has played a role in her healing, and folklore, which she combines to form a personal visual mythology.
IG: @violetghost13
She/Her
Teodora Karailanova, artist & filmmaker
I am born in creativity and I constantly strive to explore its boundaries. That’s why I have spent my artistic life experimenting with a plethora of mediums, ranging from traditional materials to bizarre 3D renders. My craftsmanship peaks with filmmaking. As an immigrant in the UK, and as a child of the world, I’ve found my adventures and challenges are best told through the timeless, painterly worlds of the 3D animated films I create.
IG: @tkarailanova Web: www.teodorakarailanova.com
He/Him
Cam Crosland is a self-taught street photographer based near London, England. His work is inspired by human experience, whether joyous or painful. He seeks to capture the complexities and power of the emotions we experience as individuals, such as loss, vulnerability but also beauty, attempting to reconcile and explore opposites. His work is a work of contrasts, connecting the outer and inner worlds.
IG: @cjcroslandstreet Web: www.cjcrosland.com
They/Them
‘Je ne Cuit Pas Qu’oncques à Creature’ (I Do Not Believe That To Any Creature Ever) is a Medieval ballade by Guillaume de Machaut, one of the most admired composers of the 1300s.
In this dark reimagining of the song by Queer performer and artist Katherine Christie Evans, clandestine figures haunt the English landscape, and strange animalistic creatures are concealed in old churches. The video hints at themes of metamorphosis, queer bodies, the female gaze, and forbidden desire.
IG: @katherinechristieevans Web: linktr.ee/katherinecevans
MARS ALBERS
He/TheyHi! I’m Mars, am a 21 year old transmasc. Being queer in the closet had a big impact on my life.
Therefore I started to break through it. Exploring queer joy, alongside the challenges a lot of us fight on a daily basis. As well as being neurodivergent has shaped my view on the world and how I perceive it, it has impacted the way I do art; Working topic based and exploring time based media, installation, painting, etc.
This piece is to learn about the feeling of being trapped, unable to say no, constantly treading water, trapped in ones mind and body.
IG: @mars_landed Web: artlyx.wordpress.com
He/Him
Tyler is a queer and trans photographer. Working in West Midlands and around the UK specialising in event, theatre and music photography. Tyler enjoys creating self-portraits that capture the different stages of his life, which link to his upbringing, capturing his journey and celebrating queerness. Creating these in his spare time allow him to connect with himself and be thankful for every step he has made so far and every step he will continue to take.
IG: @tyler.w.photography Web: www.tylerwhitingphotography.com
He/Him
Ethan’s work is explorative, mood-driven and reactionary. Researching characteristics of human life, values, intimacy and trauma; formulating ways to question and reconstruct the idea of self. Inspired by queer culture, politics and the skill of telling stories.
Developing their practice helped to confront his past teachings raised as a Jehovah’s Witnesses, a closed-off religious organisation. After years of mental turmoil, he left the organisation and began life as an openly queer man, utilising his experience to push his artistic boundaries.
IG: @_ethantheartist_ Web: www.ethansheppard.co.uk
They/Them
Growing up in the lush landscape of Pembrokeshire my world has forever revolved around the natural world, so for me moving to a city I lost a part of myself. When longing for nature I find my self searching for the green amongst the grey.
IG: @daisyfisher_art
She/Her
NOX is a Turkish-British queer artist blending dark electro-pop with Turkish influences through harmonies, instrumentation, and language. Inspired by the successes of women such as Billie Eilish, BANKS, and Nova Norda, NOX bridges cultures, advocating for LGBTQ+ inclusion and underrepresented voices in music. A single mother splitting her time between Istanbul and London, she inspires young Turkish artists to pursue their dreams and identities despite societal pressures. With BBC Introducing airplay and work with BMG, NOX aims to introduce Turkish music to UK audiences, building cultural connections.
IG: @noxbothered Web: linktr.ee/noxbothered
He/Him
Through my interdisciplinary practice which includes Painting, Performance & Sculptural qualities, I challenge the traditional norms in the art world by interrogating power structures in the art market within the urban landscape, value and desire systems of art with its commodity form and combining traditional painting ideologies with sculptural and performative elements.
IG: @rishi___________k01
She/They
Inspired by Art Nouveau and the early 20th century, I am a queer illustrator and artist who uses visual storytelling to communicate ideas around gender, sexuality, and mental health. I primarily work with a mixture of traditional and digital mediums to create art for a variety of contexts such as: game design, comic illustration, packaging design, and editorial illustration.
IG: @piccalilliart Web: www.charlottelillygeorge.co.uk
Issue 02 Online Gallery
Welcome to the Issue 02 Online Gallery, where you can find a preview of our Featured Artist’s work and links to their websites and/or social media platforms so you can easily find your way back to the artists themselves.
For writers, check out our Online Library.
Renato Pino
He/HimMy art is a celebration of queerness, fluidity, and the beauty of breaking free from labels. Through my oil paintings, digital illustrations, and mixed media works, I aim to challenge traditional norms and explore the vast spectrum of human identity and expression. Using bold brush strokes, vibrant colors, and vivid shapes, I create art that defies easy categorization. I am not constrained by realism or hyperrealism but instead focus on conveying a message and capturing the essence of my subjects with a sense of freedom and fluidity. As a queer artist myself, I am passionate about representing the LGBTQI+ community and other marginalized groups that are often underrepresented in the art world. I seek to normalize, dignify, and elevate the diverse experiences and beauty of being queer, free, and unapologetically oneself.
IG: @renatopino.art Web: renato-pino.square.site
AR Quinlan
They/SheAR’s art focuses on the joys found in the natural, with their work often focusing on growing, living things, and their life cycles. She loves both flora and fauna, living and dead, and often takes inspiration from her surroundings for pieces. They have recently begun the process of learning to create art digitally to make sharing easier. “Birds and botanicals, baby!” is what they’d say if they were asked to describe their work in an artist statement.
IG: @strawberry_frog_art
India Clarke
She/HerIndia Clarke is a first year Fine Art student based in Liverpool, her work centres themes of fantasy and surrealism, nature, and queer women's experiences. The Pre Raphaelites, along with romantic poetry and fairy tales, inspire her practice, and she sometimes likes to write poems of her own.
IG: @artistintheforest
Hammy
She/HerHammy is a Queer self-taught artist based in London who embraces the spirit of self-discovery. Her art is a visual exploration of identity, culture, and the significance found in the rich memories of her mixed heritage. Without formal qualifications, Hammy has embraced the challenges of being a self-taught artist, turning each obstacle into an opportunity for growth. Her artistic journey is a testament to the idea that creativity knows no bounds and that true artistry is often cultivated through passion and dedication. Hammy consistently explores her identity and the beauty associated with it.
IG: @hammyislostagain
Lauren Shakespeare
They/ThemMy practice as a painter focuses on portraiture to explore my experiences as a lesbian in goth, punk and metal subculture spaces. Compositions from religious and genre paintings form a basis for my works and create a play on the traditional hierarchy of genres, introducing ideas of the messy experiences of a night out to an art form seen as high class. The music and aesthetics of queercore punk and goth also come through in how I display my work, rejecting the white cube for the aesthetics of a club bathroom.
IG: @L.shakespeare.art
Hannah
She/HeI am Hannah, a mixed media artist from Milton Keynes. I never think or know what I am going to make before I start doing it, I'm usually clueless to any end result. Automatically I tend to combine things from my mundane; whether simple or strange. Disjointedness of concept I think is what makes art, my art.
IG: @pixel_.h
Sega
He/HimSega is a self-taught transmasc artist. His practice began when he first discovered trans community through tattooing, and has since extended to paint and digital art. His work centres on the concept of hope, possibilities and love as a trans person. His time is split between tattooing at Fort, a trans-run art studio & community space, working in a queer creative health charity, and his expanding art practice.
IG: @segadoeslines
Philip Rainey
He/HimPhilip Rainey is a queer visual artist based in Northern Ireland. Their practice incorporates lens-based art alongside text, exploring themes of selfhood, spirituality and memory. Through a lyrical visual style which blurs the lines between the pictorial and the painterly, their work uses the camera as an equilibrium between the real and the fictitious. Experimenting with materiality and tactility, they are interested in how photography can be encountered as a spatial and sensory experience. Through photography, video and installation, their work stems from the poetics of the everyday.
IG: @philip_rainey Web: www.philip-rainey.com
Star Gaze
They/ThemTwo figures face each other but do not touch- the potential connection between them is present but ultimately unfulfilled. What does it mean to connect with other people? And how can we connect despite our differences? My art practice examines the disconnect between the polarised sides of the ‘trans debate’ and whether it is possible to circumvent this division. I am interested in the mother-child dynamic as a metaphor for the relationship that transgender individuals have with their ‘mother’ society.
IG: @stargazeartist Web: linktr.ee/stargazeartist
Jay McAvoy
They/ThemJay McAvoy is a multimedia artist and animator based in Manchester. Inspired by the sights, sounds and movements of nature, their work captures the beauty of the natural world in an abstract, expressive way.
Click Here (or on the image to the right) to view the full piece
IG: @yellojam
Silvestre Correia
& George Murphy
He/Him & He/HimSilvestre Correia From Coimbra, Portugal, and based in Sheffield, UK, Silvestre is a transgender performer and theatre and film director whose work comes from thoughts that are united into something that goes beyond definition. It’s about exposing something disturbing yet playful, that cannot be fully explained.George Murphy From Congleton, UK, and based in Sheffield, UK, George is a writer whose work allows a glimpse into a macabre reality where stories unfold, appalling to some, alluring to others.They have partnered into filmmaking in an attempt to create art that can repulse as well as amaze, art that generates doubt.
IG: @deadat5ft1 & @ thefilthiestpersonalive
Web: www.silvestrecorreia.com
Daphnellc
They/ThemDaphnellc is an experimental techno producer, sound & video artist, sound editor, fine artist and poet in the Midlands, UK. They are driven by experimental processes in electronic music and art. Their live performances utilise two drum machines as the main force of generative techno for dancing.As a multidisciplinary artist, they create with varied resources; field recordings, drum & melodic programming, digital and paper drawings, lines from self-healing poems. They are heavily influenced by acid house and the rave scene, DIY movements in art and queer community.
IG: @daphnellc16 Web: www.larrycrywater.wordpress.com
Issue 01 Online Gallery
Here you will find all the amazing artists featured in Issue 01 of CV&L, with a preview of their work and links to their websites and/or social media platforms so you can easily find your way back to the artists themselves.
For writers, check out our Online Library.
Alice Robb
She/TheyAlice Robb is a queer artist based in Reading. Their art aims to capture the innate impermanence of liminal spaces through a variety of mediums - namely installation, live theatre, and collage. Robb explores the curiousness of the uncanny through a careful combination of textures and themes to create works that are both distantly familiar and empathetically othered.
alicerobb34.wixsite.com/alice-robb
@alice_robb on Instagram
Jack Neal
He/HimJack Neal is an illustrator working in south Yorkshire. His work draws inspiration from his experience growing up autistic and transgender. Through his work, he conveys queer experiences in a warm environment, exploring the bright and passionate love between trans people. Jack strives to create a safe space for queer folk to exist in and embrace their own identities.
@half.ant on Instagram
Izzy Osborn
They/ThemIzzy Osborn is a multidisciplinary post conceptual artist. Their practice aims to explore individual’s relationship with contemporary art and ‘the institution’. This exploration has taken place through a series of co-creational projects organised under the artists pseudonym, library of ideas. These projects are installed within an environment such as an art college or gallery space, and playfully engage with the environment’s population. Concepts such as knowledge creation or the relationship between art and design are explored through the vehicles of questionnaires, worksheets and forms. The responses gathered from individuals, are in turn presented back to the community, through exhibitons of prints, videos and zines.
izzyosborn.vsble.me
@library.of.ideas on Instagram
Amy Lloyd
She/They/HeAmy is a queer, disabled artist who specialises in pencil drawings and the occasional oil painting. A lot of her work is inspired by special interests (like dinosaurs and anatomy) but typically Amy attempts to stretch the limits of detail in her work and exploit her experience of perfectionism through drawing. Amy studies Psychology with Neuroscience BSc but her passion seems to always come back to the arts, dedicating any spare time to a tonal drawing session.
amylloyd0.wixsite.com/amysophia
@amylloyd.art on Instagram
Sid Barker
Growing up, comics and graphic novels kept them company. Archie comics, The Moomins and Calvin and Hobbes all play inspiration in the work they create today.sidbarker.my.canva.site
@sidgravy on Instagram
Olive C. Payne
She/HerOlive Payne is a non-binary filmmaker and photographer based in Liverpool. Originally from Scarborough, N. Yorkshire, their work utilises landscape in order to express people’s relationship to their surroundings.
@mrs_parrot on Instagram
Amber Winter
She/HerI have lived multiple lives. Once I was a young boy who was unaware of his abnormalities; once I was a twink who thirsted for the acceptance of experienced men; once I was a crossdresser hiding behind my own fear. I am a chameleon, adapting and reacting. I break myself down and build myself back up again. I seize my mind, my flesh, and my soul and carve, break, snap, pull, and stitch them into my own shape. I am Amber Winter, and I am an artist of the traditional sense as well as an artist of my own biology.
@amberwinterartist on Instagram
Matt David
They/ThemMatt David is a London-based, Scottish queer artist. They received a BA in Illustration from Duncan of Jordanstone School of Arts and Design University of Dundee in 2014. Their work developed from primarily pastel and ink portrait and figure work to exploring the cyanotypes and combining mediums with this technique.
Matt’s work centres on exploring queerness within symbolism, sexuality and expression. It has been essential for Matt to create work that tackles themes they surround themselves with and challenge. This ranges from HIV stigma to objectification of queer bodies.
www.mattdavid.co.uk
@mattdavidartist on Instagram
Rachel Kavanagh
She/HerUsing the mediums of sculpture, lens, illustration and installation, I aim to capture the bodily discomfort and dissociation queer people experience. I contrast hard and soft materials to evoke and contrast the “real” and “symbolic” body. In a world which adheres to heteronormative ideas about gender and the body, feeling disconnected from our physical beings allows for escape into fantasy. Exploring the queer body through imagination allows for a catharsis which permits acceptance and freedom, without physical limitations and a disregard for how the body should appear.
@rachlkaart on Instagram
Sieve Bonaiuti
They/ThemSieve’s work is mainly inspired by intimacy, queerness, folktales and magic. In their illustrations and poetry, these elements are mixed together, while showing snapshots of ordinary life.
@mohnwald on Instagram
Joe Hull
They/ThemJoe Hull is a multimedia artist with a focus on sculpture and painting. They are non-binary and create work that is reflective of their experience of gender and sexuality, which reflects feelings of devotion, feeling trapped in one’s body and otherness through kink and BDSM aesthetics. They also hope to de-stigmatise BDSM through their work and show how it can be a powerful way of reclaiming autonomy.
@joehull_art on Instagram
Rein Lee
They/ThemRein is a young queer artist that is studying illustration and animation at Kingston University. They work in a variety of disciplines, most notably in zines, digital and traditional illustrations and animation. During their short time in being a practicing artist, they have animated and illustrated for book covers, posters, animated adverts and moving image work for documentaries. All of their works focus on portraying the mood of bitter sweetness, the melancholy and sad nostalgia that is silently present in our lives. Recording both the surreal and the mundane, their works forces us to familiarise ourselves to fictional places, characters and scenarios.
Tidal Wave is avaialble for purchase in Rein’s etsy shop.
@Rein__lee on Instagram
@Reinlee55 on X (Twitter)
ShonaMary
She/HerShonaMary is a digital artist from the North West of England specialising in Gothic fantasy characters. Heavily inspired by table top role playing games as well as myths, legends and cryptids. Her art strives to show both the fierce and whimsical side of the female characters she creates.
linktr.ee/ShonaMaryDesigns
@shonamary_designs on Instagram
Chloe Crxxs
She/HerChloe is an 18 year old artist who recently moved to Manchester, and spends most of her time creating illustrations or simple sketches of her own original characters. As a lesbian, she paints mainly about queerness and the relationships that queer people experience, whether that be platonic, romantic, or otherwise. Her favourite mediums include gouache and ink pens, but she’s not shy of experimenting with multimedia pieces or stepping out of her comfort zone. Chloe’s main inspirations stem from different places, such as fashion, nature, her own queer experience, and the experiences of those around her.
@chloecrxxs_draw on Instagram
Sylvie (Sage) McAlpine-Lee
They/ThemI’m Sage ( Sylvie) I’m a queer, nonbinary artist, writer, poet and musician based in Edinburgh. I’m currently accepting commissions and can be contacted via my email, sylviemcalpinelee@icloud.com
My work takes inspiration from high contrast, visual striking , graphic and street art. It is often based around sketches I complete on paper before transferring to my digital medium. I discuss and display themes or religion, pain, isolation, perception and many others in a striking manner.
@the_things_i_can_make on Instagram
Martyna Meramow
She/HerMartyna is a Fashion/Event photographer, Her work (mainly focused on fashion) tends to link to her likes and upbringing in hopes to relate to her target audience. Her current style revolves around coloured gels which she finds bring life to her photographs, as well as editorial which she is also passionate about this can be seen both in her photographs and in her day to day personal editorial work. At times she likes to challenge herself to styles of photography such as street photography which she feels is a good way to build up her photographic skills.
mbmphotography.uk
@_martynas.photography_ on Instagram
Sarah Gant
She/HerBased in both Bournemouth and Leeds, photographer and filmmaker Sarah Gant takes inspiration from the natural world around her. Her work looks at how people interact with the spaces they live in and the beauty that surrounds them. Artists such as Joe Greer, Sophie Jones and Lauren Questell also show these themes throughout their visuals and have inspired Sarah within her practice.
sarahlizgant.wixsite.com/sarahgant
@sarahlizg on Instagram
Rea Fortis
She/HerProducer and audiovisual specialist, Rea Fortis, has been fascinated with music videos as a child and even more recently the phenomena of visual albums. A musician at heart, Fortis is a genre chameleon that is not bound to her love of house, Latin and blues music, but combines the most enchanting aspects of these genres to create her music with. She composes music with ivory keys at her fingertips and assortment of saxes at the ready. This year, Rea Fortis has broken boundaries through releasing her debut EP in the form of a visual album.
@reafortis on Instagram
Frankie Marshall
They/ThemFrankie is a queer mixed-media artist from Leeds who recently moved to London for university. Their practice is focused primarily on the process rather than the final piece. In their work they use a variety of different materials and processes ranging from 3D pieces, video, performance and 2D works. The aim of their work is to blur the lines between these different categories and create work that can engage with a variety of people. Frankie’s work often has a focus on the relationship between humans and their environment in an abstract or surrealist way using overwhelming texture, colour and pattern.
frankiewoozleart.myportfolio.com
@frankie_artsxd on Instagram
Andrew Hannaford
He/HimExploring lived reality and issues experienced by trans and queer communities is the focus of Andrew Hannaford’s work. He investigates the parts of being queer and trans that aren’t typically acknowledged or visible within mainstream society, inspired by his own personal experience with gender. All created with the aim of sparking discussions about the trans experience and dismantling the constrictive narratives that are too frequently written for trans people. Having been highly influenced by the artist Cassils, he investigates this through interdisciplinary practice, typically integrating some aspect of performance.
@3ye.evil on Instagram
AMILLS
She/TheyAMILLS is a 21 year old artist/producer from SE London. With a rock background, her production style merges alternative and indie rock sounds with pop and trap. Proud member of the LGBTQ+ Community, AMILLS hopes to be a strong female voice with experimental production style from rock influences such as Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails, fused with elements of rap such as Lund and Nothing Nowhere. ‘For A Week Or Two’ released (16/06) followed by ‘I’m Not This’ (25/08) marks the new direction AMILLS is moving with the project, both of which have been played by BBC introducing.
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@amillsdisconnected on Instagram
KaiKaydee
They/ThemI create music I have dubbed ‘cynical pop’, which combines emotional lyrics, with upbeat music with elements/inspiration drawn from many genres. I believe music can be a positive tool to help us communicate when struggling with our mental health, and aim to help others feel more comfortable discussing their struggles.
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@kaikaydee on Instagram
