Fag Attacks the Country
‘Fag Attacks the Country’ explores the intersection between my Queerness, the rural, and the tradition of portraiture and landscape painting. In this project I present an imaginary Queer space in the English countryside.
Like a fairy tale, it all started once upon a time – this time in 2020 with the birth of a new world order of ecological dystopia. The woods were quiet, the cows grazed undisturbed, the genteel went about attending to their lawns and vegetable patches, the crows, always suspicious, scanned the rolling hills, when suddenly an evil foreign non-binary Queen arrived in the scene.
Acrylic on paper, 140 x 100cm, 2020.
Acrylic on paper, 140 x 105cm, 2020.
Acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120cm, 2021.
Acrylic on paper, 140 x 100cm, 2020.
Fag Has an Audience
In ‘Fag Has an Audience’, I invade the grand houses of the landed gentry and queer the tradition of the interior portrait. In these paintings, I populate the pictorial space with my Fag identity and references to landscape and social class. Within the narrative of these paintings there is also the suggestion that every palace has a chasm, a dark side, a cesspit.
Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 210cm, 2021.
Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 210cm, 2021.
Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 210cm, 2021.
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