As part of LGBT History Month, we're celebrating UK LGBT+ Artists From performers and theatre makers to fashion designers and illustrators, here are 10 amazing LGBT+ artists that you should follow on instagram.
As part of LGBT History Month, we're celebrating UK LGBT+ Artists. From performers and theatre makers to fashion designers and illustrators, (basically, anyone who would have studied at City Campus) here are 10 amazing LGBT+ artists that you should follow on instagram.
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Sharan Dhaliwal founded, developed and now runs the UK’s leading South Asian magazine Burnt Roti, which is a platform for young creatives to showcase their talent, find safe spaces and destigmatise topics around mental health and sexuality, amongst others. Her particular interests focus on discussing the representations of young womxn, South Asian womxn and queer womxn.
She is the Director of Middlesex Pride and creator of Oh Queer Cupid, a queer speed dating and comedy night.
She has had bylines in i-D, HuffPost, the Guardian and was on the list of global influential women for the BBC 100 Women 2019.
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Fox is an award winning artist, film maker and campaigner. Fox has an MA in Sequential Design and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Brighton for their contribution to trans equality.
Fox creates colourful, unique and vibrant screen printed work, which is displayed at galleries, hotels and in private collections
Fox took part in a documentary series, My Transsexual Summer (C4) that began a mainstream conversation about trans issues in the UK.
As a result of their experience being filmed, Fox formed My Genderation, an ongoing film project about trans issues in the UK and beyond. Through My Genderation, Fox has created over a 100 films, shown on Channel 4, the BBC and at 40+ film festivals such as the BFI FLARE Film Festival and Frameline Film Festival.
Fox co-authored two books: Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl? and The Trans Teen Survival Guide, both which have been widely popular and reach audiences all over Europe and to the US. Fox is a proud partron of LGBT Switchboard and a co-founder and trustee of Trans Pride, Brighton.
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Reece Lyons is a transgender actress, writer and poet based in London. She is a Roundhouse resident artist where her work has previously gone viral and has been watched by over 4 million people online. Select credits include: HANNA (Amazon Prime), Life & Rhymes (Sky Arts), Fierce Sisters (Mimbre).
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Dhenze is based in London, but draws much of its inspiration from another city with a thriving LGBT+ scene: Berlin.
Since its inception the brand has focused on gender-free collections, tapping into Berlin’s electronic music and fetish scenes to evoke a dark but playful aesthetic steeped in counter-culture.
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What began with a comic called Panda and Possum Adventures has expanded into a platform creating wholesome content raising awareness for LGBT+, racial and cultural diversity, mental health, disability visability and body positivity
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Miranda Forrester is a figurative painter from London, currently dividing her time between London and Brighton.
Since graduating from the University of Brighton with a BA in Fine Art Painting, her work has been featured in several exhibitions at key galleries and museums, such as the Mall Galleries, Christie’s Education and Copeland gallery, at the BBZ Alternative Graduate Show.
Forrester’s practice explores the queer black female gaze in painting, relating to the history of men painting womxn naked. Forrester’s work is concerned with addressing the invisibility of womxn of colour in the history of art and combating the fetishization of our bodies. Forrester has been investigating how her identity impacts on the way in which she depicts her subjects, and how her paintings can rearticulate the language and history of life drawing through a queer black feminist desiring lens, and in doing so, depict what the male gaze cannot see. Her use of stretching plastic over stretchers and painting on highly primed smooth surfaces is fundamental to the work in that the viewer can see through the bodies; the surface becomes more than skin, they are flesh, real and alive, bare and on display. The work, altogether, is a celebration of womxn’s bodies, the joy in occupying feminine identities and being in relation with one another.
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An artist and filmmaker, Liberty Antonia Sadler is a body-positive, sex-positive femme, who investigates female stereotypes and gender performance through her work. The results are bold in shape, colour and joyfulness.
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Ashton Attzs won the 2018 Evening Standard Art Prize for their artwork Don’t Stay In Ya Lane. Since then, they have collaborated with the Brit Awards, Tottenham Hotspur FC and more, as well as designing a billboard in support of NHS heroes. Their work is all about uplifting queer and trans people.
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Cartoonist Emily McGovern found internet fame with her web series My Life As A Background Slytherin, which charted the adventures of a hapless and overlooked Hogwarts student. Her first published graphic novel, Bloodlust and Bonnets, is a queer love letter to Regency romances.
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Actor, playwright and theatre maker. Temi Wilkey’s play The High Table ran at the Bush Theatre until lockdown. The playtext is available from the Bush Theatre (bushtheatre.co.uk/shop)
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