{"id":40920,"date":"2023-06-19T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/?p=40920"},"modified":"2025-09-24T05:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:46:43","slug":"top-ten-lgbtqia-creatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/spotlights\/top-ten-lgbtqia-creatives\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQIA+ Artists and Artworks You Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Livvy Mitchell<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u2018Italian Sausage Hero\u2019 by Livvy Mitchell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Livvy is a graphic designer, art director and illustrator with an interest in editorial, print and identity design. This piece, \u2018ITALIAN SAUSAGE HERO\u2019, is from the series \u2018Secret Parade\u2019. As a series of experimental collages using scannography, composition, and colour, these works explore gender, sexuality and the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see more of Livvy\u2019s work on their website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Still from \u2018SHE KEEPS ME DAMN ALIVE\u2019 by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is a London-based artist who creates work that seeks to archive black trans experience. In Danielle\u2019s exhibition SHE KEEPS ME DAMN ALIVE, Danielle\u2019s methodology of gaming and interactivity invited the viewer to shoot to protect black trans people, a call-to-action which forms part of a larger framework in Danielle\u2019s practice which promotes accountability and protection of the black trans community and beyond. This medium challenged the audience to recentre their understanding of responsibility through powerplay, choice and (in)action.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find more of Danielle\u2019s work on their website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u2018Pswagi Temahahoi\u2019 by Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Anchi Lin [Ciwas Tahos] is a performance and new media artist of Taiwanese Indigenous Atayal and H\u014d-l\u00f3 descent based in Taipei, Taiwan. The piece featured, \u2018Pswagi Temahahoi\u2019, is made up of video and photography which follows the path taken by Atayal Elder Yumin, who uses a technique named \u2018pswagi\u2019, which utilises the Indigenous knowledge of sunlight and shade, to trace the locations of wild bees. The artist explains the meaning of the title best: \u2018Pswagi is a looking and bodily skill. Temahahoi is a nearly forgotten Atayal oral story about a space where only women (queer) live.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find more of Ciwas\u2019 work on their website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ally Rosenberg<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u2018Friday Night Pisher\u2018 by Ally Rosenberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ally Rosenberg is a London-based sculptor from Manchester. His work \u2018Friday Night Pisher\u2019 is inspired by the story behind Ally\u2019s family nickname and childhood memory of binging fizzy drinks on Friday nights, then subsequently wetting the bed in night terrors. Battling both fantasy and reality, as well as consciousness and unconsciousness, Ally explains: \u2018This piece made me think about how suppression of appetites and repression of desires can lead to overindulgence and self-sabotage.\u2019  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find more of Ally\u2019s work on their website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Francesca Menghini<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u2018Rosalie\u2019 by Francesca Menghini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Francesca Menghini is an Italian photographer based in Amsterdam. \u2018Rosalie\u2019 is a part of the photography series \u2018Unbounded \u2013 Being gender diverse\u2019, which presents a collection of portraits and personal statements that give space for individuals to be seen and heard in her representation of gender diversity. As the subject on the photo says: \u2018Now I keep reminding myself that it\u2019s enough to exist as a human, and there\u2019s no mold to fit into\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find more of Francesca\u2019s work on her website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Clifford Prince King<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u2018Act IV\u2019 by Clifford Prince King<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Clifford Prince King is an artist living and working in New York and Los Angeles. Capturing his intimate relationships as a queer black man in traditional and everyday settings, Clifford\u2019s photographs rejoice in the complex nature of human identity. \u2018Act IV\u2019 is one of IV acts in his photography series \u2018ACTS of service\u2019 which showcases traditional forms of care, paying homage to previous generations who performed service to those often unworthy of care.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find more of Clifford\u2019s work on their website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Whiskey Chow<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u2018you must everywhere wander \u4f60\u5fc5\u9867\u76fc\u2019 by Whiskey Chow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Whiskey Chow is London-based performance artist and Chinese drag king. \u2018You must everywhere wander \u4f60\u5fc5\u9867\u76fc\u2019 is a hybrid of filmed performance, CGI animation and sound art drawing on Chinese myth and a sense of belonging from an Asian queer diasporic perspective. As Whiskey puts it: \u2018I invite audiences into an other-worldly queer dreamality; creating a welcoming, intimate atmosphere in a digital realm which celebrates queer Asian diasporic and other marginalised identity.\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find more of Whiskey\u2019s work on their website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gori Mora<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u2018Walk-ins welcome\u2019 by Gori Mora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Goria Mora is a Spanish painter working in Glasgow whose provocative paintings often play with perspective and are full of queer sexual tension. Gori states: \u2018my work speaks of the innate human desire for intimacy and connection, and the fragility inherent within that desire\u2019. \u2018Walk-ins welcome\u2019 is one of many works created by Gori\u2019s unorthodox process of painting backwards in layers of perspex oils, so the end result is the backside of the original painting.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find more of Gori\u2019s\u00a0work on Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Oly Bliss<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Portrait from #SoftLads by Oly Bliss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Oly Bliss is a Worcester-based embroidery artist who uses textiles as a starting point to explore themes of gender, identity and sexuality within his personal practice. This embroided portrait is part of Oly\u2019s series #SoftLads, which explores the portrayal of masculine identity and selfdom through social media. Oly stitches portraits of men with facial and body tattoos in celebration of how they curate themselves online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find more of Oliver\u2019s work on their website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Christina Quarles<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u2018New Moon\u2019 by Christina Quarles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Christina Quarles is a painter living and working in Los Angeles. Her paintings grapple with Quarles\u2019 identity being a Woman fair skinned with Black ancestry, and her daily experience with ambiguity as a queer cis Woman. \u2018New Moon\u2019 captures the dislocated feeling of Christina\u2019s work, as an excess of disorganised bodies tangle and intertwine in a colourful fragmented landscape.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find more of Christina\u2019s work on their website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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