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Give Us Our Flowers Now
“Give us our flowers now” is a response to the fact that Black trans people are only celebrated after a tragedy. We should celebrate the Black trans people around us every day. 🌸🌺🌸🌺
Inspired by four Brighton based Black trans artists (Xandice Armah, Vlad von Kitsch, Kuchenga and Subira Joy)
this mural offered flowers ahead of Trans Pride Brighton.
Please support the work of Black trans arists, support their fundraisers and their Etsy stores.. as many have been saying lately, once Black trans people can live freely and safely - the rest of us will be too.
BAC Bedrooms
High Tidings
From the arsenic stained cliffs of West Cornwall to the fishing ports of Newlyn, Cornwall has a landscape scarred and moulded by its industry. These patterns of rust and labour have a unique atmosphere that Mydd Pharo and I were evoking in our bedroom design for BAC. This combined with the breathtaking peace and meditative space that are provided by the Cornish skies and landscapes.
Taking inspiration from the water that flooded through the BAC following their fire some years back, the rooms have a beautiful rusting quality - the colours of the gorse, the mines and the seas... a vision of Cornwall that is separate from the picture postcards and the world of holiday makers, but exists alongside - both invisible and everywhere.
These bedrooms were commissioned by BAC for visiting artists to stay in residence in the Battersea venue. They have remained in use for the past five years and continue to be used today, having created a haven for hundreds of artists, creating and performing their work.
Artmob
My work was exhibited as part of Continuum: Framing Trans Lives in 21st Century Britain at the People’s History Museum, Manchester
‘Hearty’ is Emma Frankland’s exploration into the effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) on her changing body. Frankland draws parallels between her experience of gender transition and other women’s experiences of HRT around menopause.
‘I explore attitudes to the menopause and the use and development of HRT (hormone replacement therapy) drugs which are perhaps connected to the eradication of the crone from our society as well as the liberation of my body as a transgender woman’
The results, represented by a collection of ceramic vessels, made with clay and oestrogen, highlight the rituals around change, growth, ageing and transformation.
Trans Time
Emma was invited to display work as part of the Trans Time exhibition in Paris. She performed scenes from ‘Rituals for Change’, leaving the performance traces as a dynamic installation.
Transition, 2017
Newlyn Art Gallery
Emma was invited, along with co creator Myriddin Pharo, to a residency at Newlyn Art Gallery to further explore elements of their production ‘Rituals for Change’ as an art installation.
