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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.
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Renato Pino

He/Him

My 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/She

AR’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/Her

India 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/Her

Hammy 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/Them

My 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/He

I 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/Him

Sega 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/Him

Philip 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/Them

Two 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/Them

Jay 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/Him

Silvestre 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/Them

Daphnellc 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