Visual Arts Exhibition @ McKenzie Pavilion Gallery Space

Description:The painting followed a wonderful night out with some trans friends.

About the artist: Ann is a recipient of first class degree from Sheffield and an M.A. from Manchester. She worked for many years as a social worker and a psychotherapist. Her sexuality and the issue of gender is strong influence on her. Sometimes she paints people without a gender bias.
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Description:Chantz creates the form, a woman's body, that in itself is beautiful in its flow and has 'journey histories': from first seeing the raw stone in the ground, then taking it from New Mexico to London, to her own interpretation of woman as a perfect creation.

About the artist: Chantz Perkins was born in Los Angeles and educated at University of California and Otis Parsons Art Institute in Los Angeles. Originally trained as a painter, the sculptures she saw on her first trip to London inspired her to take up stone carving. Chantz moved to Amsterdam in 1996 to expand her career. She has received various commissions and has participated in many exhibitions in the United States, London and Amsterdam.
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Description:The Jack & Jill Snapshots: Pictures of a young couple in which the man as well as the woman is played by the artist herself. Corrine Bot will go on taking pictures of Jack & Jill when they are old and grey.

About the artist: '73 born Corrine was educated at Art Academy of Rotterdam and studied Audiovisual at University of Leiden. She has received various prizes. Her artworks and films were selected and exhibited widely in Europe, USA, Bangladesh and Cuba.
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Description:Eleanor uses the book as a nostalgic object and a device by which to record own memories and an attempt to express the sense of confusion and an obsession associated with loss.

About the artist: Eleanor completed arts degree at Loughborough University and went on to study for an MA in Book Arts at the University of the Arts London. She currently works for a lighting design company and writes a blog about book and paper arts.
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Description:Francesca uses her artwork as a vehicle through which she can experiment with her own image. She interlaces the melancholy and passion of contemporary reality as an androgyny living in London along with the 21st century references of her Italian childhood.

About the artist: Francesca works in a variety of mediums, from photography to silkscreen, from video to charcoal. The human body has always been the focal point around which her work has revolved. In the past she has explored patterns of figurative and emotional associations between individuals living in the city and the anonymity of urban architecture. She lives and works in London.
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Description:Part of a series of nine, this cliché verre is an exploration of the mythology of women's' uncontrolled psychic powers and the home as a cage for adolescent sexuality.

About the artist: Jemma works as artist and educator living in Norfolk. She has been exhibiting nationally over the past two years, and will be embarking on first residency in Finland this summer She is currently teaching freelance for various institutions including the Sainsbury’s Centre for Visual Art and Norwich Art Centre and is an eastern regional editor for Art Art Art Magazine.
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Description:Jeremy drew a little on it in ink each day in the run-up to his16th birthday recently. As well as having to do with daily experiences, this painting has to do with his transgender feelings, LGBT pride and fears.

About the artist: Jeremy has been drawing since he was very young and art has always been important to him, an escape when he's found things difficult. Jeremy is still a student and has high hopes for university and being able to transition fully to male in future.
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Description: Dandy Gang # 1 is from as a series of cathartic and expressive photographs based around a strangely comical, sexually ambiguous and luridly colourful caricature of clownish drag and an additional exploration of issues such as his homosexuality.

About the artist: JJ Stevens studied BA Fine art at Byam Shaw & Central St. Martins London Institute of the Arts and was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2003.
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Description: As a figurative sculptor, Keith has drawn inspiration from Classical Greek 'KUROS' to celebrate the aesthetic beauty of the male form and their sexuality.

About the artist: Keith was born in 1939 and trained at Rochdale School of Art, Hammersmith College of Art and Hornsey College of Art. He has worked as arts lecturer, inspector and adviser and had participated in successful group exhibitions and sold works to Local Authorities and private patrons.
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Description: The painting depicts the transsexual performer Amanda Lepore. It is one in a series of portraits of Amanda Lepore and is also part of an ongoing study of gender identity and gender expression in the LGBT community.

About the artist: Kel is a 22 year old transgender artist and photographer. He studied a foundation in Art and Design at Camberwell College of Arts and is now a freelance portrait artist.
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Description: The painting depicts a figure who is nude apart from a pair of rubber gloves - Matthew wanted the painting to question how deeply we can relate to each other - there always seems to be a barrier between us.

About the artist: Matthew Stradling is represented in many art collections in Europe, America, the Far and Middle East. He is one of the most accomplished painters of the male nude in Britain today. Matthew works from his studio in North London and his work has been exhibited internationally and he has had eleven solo exhibitions in London and Paris alone. He has won several awards & scholarships.
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Description: Ozzy found family photographs that represent the synonym of the perfect world of the heterosexual gaze. And he wanted to question the digital reality of the heterosexual society, as gay people have to accept.

About the artist: Ozzy was brought up in Germany into a German-Turkish family. He has studied photography at the London College of Communication He is based in London and works on the aspects of identity and sexuality.
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Description: Self-portrait as Icarus - a shorthand for the rebellious or subversive artist.

About the artist: Robin is a UK based artist working with digital moving image, found imagery, artists' books and writing. He is particularly interested in the use of found materials within personal narratives and autobiographical contexts. His artworks, moving image works & film works are widely exhibited in the UK and abroad.
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Description: The work focuses primarily on introverted sensations depicting identity, self respect and sexuality: the relationship between the subconscious and the corporeal and the environment within contemporary society and culture.

About the artist: Since graduating from Liverpool Hope University in 2007 with a First Class BA Hons degree in Fine Art with Drama and Theatre Studies, Richard has been painting and exhibiting full time. His artworks are exhibited nationally and he has won several awards.
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Description: A self-portrait that explores artist's identity as a gay man, a performance of his liberation.

About the artist: Robert Acklen was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has discovered a truer self by attending Pitzer College in Southern California. He is currently entering his sophomore year in college and is planning on getting degrees in Studio Art, Anthropology, and Art History.
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Description: This digitally enhanced work is about Sarah's frustration at her society in Pakistan for their cruelty and ridicule of gay community.

About the artist: Sarah was born in 1986 in Lucknow, India. She has had two solo exhibitions of photography in Islamabad and Kuwait City. She has won a Sony World Photography Award in 2009.
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Description: "Dying Breed," an ongoing photo series captures and presents images of lesbians of colour - whose marginalisation has become commonplace making black lesbians become invisible.

About the artist: As a Haitian born and New York based butch, lesbian, educator and educated woman, Sherley is well aware her identities formulate her perspective on life amongst women, life amongst men, life amongst Haitians, life in the many localities of NYC, and ultimately the life of compromised visibilities. Her images from this series were shown in Ireland on February 2009 and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in August 2008.
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Description: The work is concerned with blurring the boundaries between dreams and reality, the mundane and the fantastic and creating queer worlds inhabited by people who are real and imaginary, strange and ordinary.

About the artist: Sina worked in underground queer punk scene at the age of 16. Since graduating from Kingston University in Illustration, Sina has produced illustration work for clients such as Healthy Gay Living Centre, Glam and the Terrence Higgins Trust, as well as exhibiting his personal artwork.
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