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This year we are excited to be bringing you 'Sucking Face', an anthology of queer and trans kisses and an accompanying exhibition, supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Queer and trans makers depict kisses long and soft, remembered and forgotten. They mould kisses that nearly happened, the ones that were only dreamt about, the ones that changed everything. The work traverses sculptures hard as teeth, paintings wet as a tongue, photography as hot as the inside of a mouth. Short stories drip with yearning, poems are swollen with want. Kisses form around ghosts and guts, snails and butcher’s shops.
The exhibition was open on the 8th, 9th, 15th, 16th, 22nd and 23rd August, from 12pm-5pm. You can take a look at photos from the private view below.
You can buy a copy of the book here.
Photography credit: Finn Brown
Meet the Anthology Contributors
Abigail Mitchell | Aldan Freyr Ástu Steinþórsbur | Alexandra Marjorie | Alison Lubar | Aly Laube | Amber Isaac | Angel Lovely | Angel Rosen | Ash Cornish | Audrey Jiggetts | Avin Posen | BEE LB | Bianco Casco | Bob Finck | Bri Campbell | Cameron Michie | Cassie Andresen | Cat of Stockholm | Chuck White | Claire Parker | Daryl Bruce | Debra Anderson | Devon Roberts | Dion Quintana | Edmund Ludlum | Ellis Saxey | Gary Miller | Harman Uppal | Hasmik Tumasyan | Henry Mitchell | Imogen Cook | J.J. Carey | James Robert Morrison | James St. James | Jessi Olarsch | Kelly Bjork | Kilaine Shelley | Kitty F. Davies | Kro | Lenke Lamm | Lily | Lindsey Weber | Louie Keight | Lux Newman | Ly Rosengard | M.B. Fortune | Goska Myk | Margaux Lewis | Matt Leonard | Maxwell Harvey-Sampson | Mazerick Betko | McQueer Studio | Melissa Wilkinson | Nikki Kossaris | Nina Helewa | Patty Tomanovich | Pol Iryo & Nat Ortolan Ervilha | Robin Perycz | Sebastian Rowlands | Shug Munic | SK Carter | Sunny Hill | T. Mae Moll | Teddy Webb | Theodore Lehre | Tim Lynch | Trish Fried Rice | Tristan des Limbes | Valentin Lacroix | Vivian Scheibelein aka VS Virsus | Zo
Meet the Exhibiting Artists
Aldan Freyr Ástu Steinþórsbur | Bianco Casco | Cat of Stockholm | Chuck White | Cyrille Miller | Devon Roberts | Emma Walker | Henry Mitchell | James Robert Morrison | Kilaine Shelley | Kitty F. Davies | Lauren McNicoll | Lenke Lamm | Lindsey Weber | Lux Newman | Goska Myk | Margaux Lewis | Maxwell Harvey-Sampson | Melanie Errey | MJ Markovitz | Oona Taper | Patty Tomanovich | Sebastian Rowlands | Tina Rose Rea Meister | Trish Fried Rice | Tristan des Limbes
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