Pride ’22

In conjunction with LGBTQ+ Pride Month, we have comprised a show featuring some incredible queer artists. Queer Bodies aims to highlight just that whilst re-imagining gender, sexuality and environment. It is with a heavy heart that we announce that artist Brody Mace-Hopkins has sadly passed. We want to extend our love and support to all Brody’s family and friends. Brody touched the hearts of so many through both themselves and their practice and they will continue to shine through the art that they gifted the world. We, fortunately, had the opportunity to work with Brody and it has been an absolute honour. It has been a privilege and are so proud to have created such a beautiful exhibition, with the help of Brody and co-collaborators/friends @raechelsmedia and @joawhatisshe. Rae has provided us with a beautiful tribute to share with you all about Brody:

‘Brody Mace-Hopkins was a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Glasgow. A maker of all sorts, working especially with performance, sculpture, and costume, Brody was a curious soul deeply inspired by mythology and the natural world. Brody used their creative ingenuity to build worlds and narratives surrounding themes of sexuality, nature, and otherness. Through the creation of monsters, hybrids, and mythical creatures, Brody’s work danced with philosophical questions about humanity’s existence and the human condition. Their enthusiasm for the natural world and use of natural materials was central to their practice, alongside an immense questioning of societal constructs and norms rooted in heteronormativity. In their work Brody intended to reclaim psychological and sexual traits deemed ‘unnatural’ by Western religion and oppression by creating experiences of catharsis and ecstasis and exploring themes of life, death, and rebirth through sacrifice and bodily transformation. Most of all, Brody had a truly caring heart, the way they loved and listened was so tender, present, and intentional. Brody made magic everywhere they went; someone who inspired others constantly and in profound ways. Brody inspirited those around them through their art, laughter, and creativity, reminding us all of our childlike cores, imagination, and playful natures. Their art remains as a glimmering light of the incredible beam of light that always will be Brody. They will be sorely and greatly missed. -Rae.

Raechel (Rae) Teitelbaum

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Website: raechelteitelbaumart.wordpress.com/

Raechel (Rae) Teitelbaum is a multi-disciplinary visual artist working with moving image, installation, performance, poetry, sculpture, virtual reality, and textiles, focusing on themes of queerness, ecology, worldmaking, and futurity. In 2019, Rae graduated from Metàfora Studio Arts Programs with an advanced diploma in studio arts and the following year received their MA in Digital Media: Image Making from Goldsmiths, University of London, where they are currently pursuing a PhD in Visual Anthropology working with queer and trans* eco-communities in Spain and Portugal and focusing on practices of queer worlding, ecological practices, co-creation, and collaboration.

This collection of work includes my poetry, felt masks, and stills from the film, ‘Unearth Me and See Me Wildly Dance,’ a film co-directed by myself and Brody Mace-Hopkins. Through poetry, queer mythology, and costume making, the intention was to explore queer narratives of pain, transformation, ecstatic joy, and otherworldliness.

Joa Blumenkranz

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Website: mammalucaart.wixsite.com/joa-blumenkranz

Joa Blumenkranz (b. May 11, 1994) ) is a dollmaker, performer, and sculptor who works within the realm of queer fabulation and transgender issues. They wonder about questions of gender, sexuality, and biology seen from their own situated knowledge as a transfeminine person. They seek to explore the illusion of ‘selfhood’, specifically in relation to sex and gender. They aim to depart from notions of essentialism, anthropocentrism, and the gender binary and speculate about a post-gender, post-human reality.
Their artwork can be described as a form of crafty queer worldbuilding that merges their lived experience as a marginalized/fetishized body with a sexy fantasy world of the beyond.
They are impacted by their upbringing in the 90’s and early 00’s in Denmark, where they were enmeshed in Nordic crafts and mythology. Joa lives and works in London and has a BA in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Art.

A hanging mask made of felt titled ‘Foreigner’ and a collection of hanging dolls made of polyurethane titled ‘Replica’.
The pieces in this installation point to an understanding of selfhood as fluid and constructed in line with queer theory and spiritual knowledge.

Brody Mace-Hopkins

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Website: bmacehopp.wixsite.com/brody

Brody Mace-Hopkins (they/them) is a visual artist who graduated with a 1st class honours degree in Sculpture (Fine Art) from Camberwell College of the Arts in 2020. Brody specialises within the fields of sculpture, performance, costume, film and painting.
Intersecting themes of queerness and ecology are some of the most prominent within Brody’s work.  Brody’s work develops from a lifelong fascination in the human condition and the creative and destructive dichotomy of human nature. As part of the enquiry into the human condition; psychology, philosophy and mythology have maintained a crucial part of Brody’s work who often utilises ritualistic performances and monsters as allegory for trauma, reflection upon contemporary constructs and a display of aversion to the systems created by society.The monsters also create a connection with the fantastical and intricately interweaving systems and organisms of the natural world.

A triptych in watercolour, gouache and pencil, exploring fantastical narratives around the creation and development of our planet.
By exploring creation we can re-imagine our environments, strip back the systems of contemporary society and create spaces for fluid interweaving forms where things exist within a state of flux and freedom.