NON-STOP NEUROTIC PEEPSHOW
An art-as-therapy project which tries to find a visual lexicon for mental health struggles.
Act 1: PANDEMANIAC, made in 2020, draws on crafting, costume, witchcraft, assemblage and theatrical ideas of alienation to queer lockdown and offer a heightened version of the artist's lived experience.
By turns playful and unsettling, the series moves through the pandemic crisis to consider the broader themes it raises: fear, desire, loss, superstition, the death drive, and our human need to connect.
Interludes are site-specific live performance pieces which expand on the aesthetic and conceptual concerns of the series.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 "Eye Body", T J Boulting, London, UK
2023 Peckham 24, London, UK
2021 Auckland Festival of Photography, New Zealand
2021 FORMAT21, Derby, UK
2021 Salon 21 at Photofusion, UK
2021 "The Force of Fantasy", SEAS, Brighton, UK
PUBLICATIONS
2021 British Journal of Photography: essay by Isaac Huxtable
PAPERS
2021 Queer Lockdown and the Reflective Mask: Towards a reading of PANDEMANIAC at Derby University/Format Festival Conference