Charting a PhD research course which explores the aesthetics of Self and Other, through a non-binary and ambiguous lens. Performance, comics, video and other media engage with reactions to anti-orthodox imagery and identity. Sex, art and being collide here to challenge and critique the persistence of 'normativity' through transgression, subversion, satire and more.
A shift in tone and style. Inspired by one of the last works of British comic artist John Hicklenton (Judge Dredd, Nemesis the Warlock, 100 Months) and reflecting my own long-term interest in anatomical studies.
Skin as just another layer. And like any layer, it can be removed, looked beneath. How deep is skin-deep? How deep is beauty, or truth, as a result? Is everybody really the same underneath?
Having spent the past few months completing Fragments of a Punk Opera , working on my PhD upgrade 'exam' and with the odd dash of a...
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