Meet the t'ARTists:

 

Lucie Arnoux is a French artist living in London. They started drawing comics at 14, when they joined the Studio Gottferdom. First published at 17 in Lanfeust Magazine, they produced monthly autobiographical stories in its pages for six years. They studied in Paris before finally moving to the UK and graduating from Kingston University in Illustration and Animation. A compulsive sketcher, Lucie has tried their hands at all sorts of painterly things. Designing theatre backdrops and prop painting with Olivier award-winning designer Tim Bird, live sketching as artist-in-residence for Sidmouth Folkweek, Womad and the Rose Theatre, illustrating comics and children’s books published internationally.

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They will be exhibiting a series of illustrations of queer musicians captured live.

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Dear Annie is an experimental electronic musician and multi-instrumentalist whose work transcends genres, refracting found-sound and analogue riffs through dance-ready rhythms to create a unique sonic tapestry that is simultaneously familiar and filled with mystery. Her music is a love letter to her trans-ness, embracing complexity and flowing between personal introspection and communal connection. As a dancer, Dear Annie infuses her tracks with a palpable physicality, creating music that is as much felt as heard.

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Rooted in her work in healthcare, her music is infused with a queer ethic of care that celebrates difference and challenges norms. Dear Annie co-founded Mud Summons Records, a DIY label born from a studio in a disused Newcastle office block. Through their 'BOLD MUD' event series (The Social, VfDalston, Bush Theatre, Stanley Arts), they bring experimental music to life in London, creating ephemeral, queer, and boundary-bending events that flaunt the grit in glamour, pushing the limits of sound.

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Toraigh Watson is a producer, flutist and DJ. Her work fuses inspiration from her roots in Irish traditional music with electronic dance music and soundscape. Toraigh has also worked with installation, sculpture and interactive art in the past, and has an upcoming collaboration with a contemporary dancer. She is always looking for ways to push her music practice in new directions.

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We have also invited queer poets to record their poetry for you.

Our featured poets are:

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​Elliot Waloschek is a poet, performer and visual artist from London. Fusing myth with mundanity, and intention with accident, his work webs a wet mythology of transformation, other(ed)ness and transmasculinity.

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Honey Birch (they/them) is a research led storyteller with an interest in the blurred borders between imagined lives and reality. Exploring their intersectional identity as a British, queer, Chinese adoptee, their work spans poetry, moving image, and 3D. They recently staged their first exhibition 'Here, Somewhere’ at Dorich House Museum, and are a recipient of the 2024 Wiggin Emerging Film-maker award.

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Jess Rahman-González (they/them) works across poetry, film, and live art. Their writing currently focuses on their experiences of being inpatient on eating disorder wards.  Jess is a Barbican Young Poet and previously chilled with Roundhouse Poetry Collective, Soho Theatre's Writers' Lab and Royal Court's playwriting group. Jess was also a Barbican Open Labs artist and Starting Blocks resident artist at Camden People’s Theatre.

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Maxine Sibihwana​

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Oli Isaac

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S-bars is a queer poet, writer, actor, and movement artist from the UK. Their work is all about being real—funny, raw, and deeply relatable. Drawing from their own lived experience, S-bars creates pieces that speak to the heart, blending humor with moments of vulnerability. Whether through words or movement, they invite others to connect, laugh, and reflect on what it means to be human. 

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