My short film Prosopagnosia will be screening at the BFI Flare LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2022. The festival runs from 16 – 27 March and Prosopagnosia will screen on Tuesday 22 and Thursday 24 March. Flare is one of my favourite film festivals and I am delighted to screen at the festival! Prosopagnosia is in the Shorts: Drawn Together screening with several other great short LGBTQIA+ films.
My new comic Awkward Silence is on my Etsy store right now. You can buy the comic here.
Some information on the comic is below along with some images.
Awkward Silence is a personal comic book that looks at quietness and solitude in a loud world. The story follows the creator as they look at how loudness and quietness has affected them and changed how they communicate with other people and their environment. Being mute and not being able to speak has many implications and these are delicately presented in this intimate and experimental comic book memoir.
Awkward Silence is a personal comic book that looks at quietness and solitude in a loud world. The story follows the creator as they look at how loudness and quietness has affected them and changed how they communicate with other people and their environment. Being mute and not being able to speak has many implications and these are delicately presented in this intimate and experimental comic book memoir.
Awkward Silence is personal and expressive and will connect with readers who love zines, comics and outsider art.
Each copy is unique. The cover features hand stitching, where each individual copy has been sewn and hand bound.
Awkward Silence will appeal to people who like zines, perzines, queer zines and comics, graphic memoirs and graphic medicine comics.
The comic can be bought here
Or a PDF can be downloaded below for free.
I am currently part of an online exhibition curated by Shape Arts. All Bound Together is an online collection of artwork by disabled and non-disabled artists.
I have a digital and fully accessible version of my zine ‘Delay’ in the exhibition. You can read and experience it here
As well as reading the zine, you can listen to an audio described version.
I also did an interview with South London Press about the exhibition. You can read this here.
I’ll be at the Hackney Comic + ZineFair 2021 (online!).
I’ll have zines and comics for sale. The online event is on from 4 – 30 September 2021 – I will post up more information on the digital event – but below is an old photo of my table at another comic fest.
I have created a new online Private Play for Disability Arts Online. It is called Stay Together and is available now. The idea is to download the digital zine and read it on your phone. Full info can be read below and you can download the zine here. Private plays are intimate performance encounters where […]
Stay Together – Disability Arts Online — Do It Theatre
I have created 3 new online Private Plays for Mainspring Arts. http://www.mainspringarts.org.uk/private-plays The first one launched on 26 October and is called Faces. The next two follow on 2 November and 9 November respectively. They can be read here on the above dates. Some extra info on the project can be read below, but please […]
Private Plays on Mainspring Arts — Do It Theatre
32 page colour zine with illustrations and text and available here.
Dix Pix looks at the queer male/trans/non-binary body and why it is common for people to send naked pictures via dating apps. The zine takes an experimental approach in its visual style and tackles themes of masculinity, queerness, solitude and the body.
Dix Pix features illustrations of dick pics that were sent to me over the gay dating app Grindr. Along with the images there are text messages and exchanges that also occurred over the app.
Gay dating and hookup apps such as Grindr have changed the way gay people communicate when looking for a partner. Face to face communication is not the first port of call. When using Grindr it’s very common to receive unsolicited pictures of naked people with penises or dick pics as they are also known. In Dix Pix I examine the need for the male (and other genders who have a penis) body to be exposed in order to gather attention through dating apps.
Available on my Etsy store.
The zine is based on the short film Dix Pix.
Designed and hand made by Steven Fraser.
After a bit of a break I am presenting a new Zine Performance as part of the Sprint Festival at Camden People’s Theatre.This is part of my work with Do It Theatre.
The performance is called Delay and is in a zine which will be available to purchase at Camden People’s Theatre from Monday 5 March to Saturday 24 March. The Zines are only £2 and tell a queer love story that takes place in the bar of Camden People’s Theatre.
More images and info soon.
I’m starting a new mini-zine project for Do It Theatre. Info at www.doittheatre.com
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