"Pride! #3 Edition" Collective Art Show

Jakob is a Swedish queer artist, born in 1999. While studying, Jakob became increasingly aware of his queer identity and how to explore this aspect of his identity through his artwork. Jakob's art became a vehicle for self-expression, allowing him to explore his gender and sexuality.

His subject is a human body, relationship between objects and ones sexuality, whether it is a traditional still-life painting or a human body and anatomic studies. He uses traditional materials, oil paints and charcoal. Through traditional studies he makes classic still-life paintings with modern symbols, playing with sexuality, identity and contrast between modern and traditional.

Paul Beaudoin is a globally recognized interdisciplinary artist. Based in Tallinn, Estonia, Dr Beaudoin actively creates visual and sound art that echoes his relationship to his identity and the contemporary culture that surrounds him.

As an American boy growing up in the 1960s, Paul was constantly "educated" by films produced and distributed by the US Government. These videos instilled incredible fear, self-shame, while gearing most of the children towards hetero-normative lifestyles. Now these films have become accessible, he has returned to them - but for a very different purpose. In recent work, Paul has explored how masculinity, and toxic masculinity in particular, was propagated in the most simplistic terms and how one's sexuality was to be suppressed.

Frederick is a elder member of the LGBTQ+ community. After receiving a B.F.A. in printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University, Frederick moved to New York in a quest for self-acceptance and artistic expression. He worked for the artist, Joe Brainard, who became a mentor for him. His ability for composition and collage construction inspired the artist to branch out and incorporate other materials in his work. Frederick was then lucky enough to become a studio assistant for Jasper Johns. His gift for making a personal connection to create iconic imagery stays with him to this day.

He is primarily an abstract & color field painter. After 20 years of living in Venice and
Joshua Tree, he began adding perspectives of the desert environment into his work, utilizing photo transfer mixed with oils and acrylics. Frederick has been working on a series called the "Wrestlers" which is informed by his queer identity.

" I have been working on the series "Wrestlers" for several years in my studio practice. I am still continuing to explore this homo exotic series with my imagery of wrestles. By using these images I hope to convey a dialogue about masculinity and queerness."
Frederick Fulmer

A freelance queer illustrator and content creator based in Banbury, UK. He works predominantly digitally, but enjoys collaging and sketching once in a while. Jason's illustration work usually depicts those LGBTQ+ bodies we are told to hide. He loves to explore queer intimacy and positivity in all its forms because queer bodies are awesome; they are resilient, and they are beautiful.
These digital art pieces are a celebration of queer joy.

Jason is a founder of Sassify Zine is an award winning, print magazine and online features website luxuriating in queer art and sassiness. The magazine is the intersection between art, self expression and mental health where Jason and his team give a platform to marginalized queer creatives to curate and promote LGBTQ+ representation in art, society and culture.

The people within the illustrations presented below have found their safe space and they are being unapologetically themselves in a world where they are told to hide.