Sweatmother is an artist and filmmaker based in London. They use experimental techniques and hybrid documentary filmmaking in collaboration with non-professional actors to create counter-narratives from within their own communities and subcultures.
Their work reclaims the often misplaced voice, body and gaze by repurposing femme/masc & gender non-conforming identities in spaces where objectification is removed, and the agency and difference in the otherness is celebrated.
Presently they are a Film London Artists’ Moving Image Fellow 21/22 and a resident artist for INFERNO.
Publications
BBC
Institute of Contemporary Art
London Short Film Festival
DAZED
Wired Magazine
Art News Week
NTS Radio
SWEATMOTHER CV
AWARDS / OPPORTUNITIES
2021 Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network Fellowship (FLAMIN) 2021-2022
2019 Finding Found Footage, Master Class Panelist Filmmaker, 16th London Short Film Festival, London UK
2018 Top 10 Moving Image Artist, Brighton Photo Fringe Biennial, Brighton UK
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2022 Femme Cowboy, Open School East with Jack Halberstam, Margate UK
2021 Femme Cowboy, Jeune Création 71, Fondation Fiminco, Paris Fr
2021 Other Voices, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis USA
2021 Other Voices, Barnes Film Festival, London UK
2021 Other Voices, Reelout Queer Film & Video Festival, Ontario Canada
2021 Other Voices, 18th London Short Film Festival, London UK
2020 Other Voices, Fringe! Queer and Arts Program: I Know Places, London UK
2020 Other Voices, Audience Choice Award, Flip the Script Festival Minneapolis, USA
2020 Other Voices, CINEMQ Underground Film Festival, Shanghai, China
2019 Truss Me, Avant Garde Film & Video Artists Respond to the Trauma of the 21st Century, Filmhuis Cavia,
Amsterdam
2017 Truss Me, China Libre, Artists Television Access, San Francisco, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Other Voices, LGBTQIA+ Histories of East London, Bermondsey Project Space, London
2020 Other Voices ft. expanded cinema performance, Asher Fynn - BBC New Creatives Showcase, Institute of
Contemporary Art, London UK
2020 Forms of Control, Inferno Takeover in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Art, London UK
2019 All This Scratch is Making Me Itch - Found Footage Films of the 80s with Contemporary Found Footage
Artists,16th London Short Film Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art, London UK
2019 Soft Exits, Brighton Photo Fringe Biennial, ONCA Gallery, Brighton UK
2018 Screenbodies, FemBot: Videos About Technology, Made by Women and Non-Binary Filmmakers,The Hand
Gallery, New York USA
PERFORMANCE
2022 Dyke, Just Do It - Visual and movement based performance - Movement Direction: Eve Stainton - Featuring performers: Kiki Mager, Casper Sid Good, Yasmine Akim, Tiberius B - Commissioned by: INFERNO for
FLAMIN Development Fellowship
CURATORIAL/ PROGRAMMING
2022 The Forgotten Archives of the Trans Masc Experience, 19th London Short Film Festival, Genesis Theater
2021 Otherness Archive, Trans Histories, moving image work, Iron Works, Brighton UK
2020 Otherness Archive, a selection of work from QTIPOC films and filmmakers, Various Locations
2018 Otherness Showcase, a selection of work from Women and Non-binary filmmakers, The Ken, San Diego CA
COLLECTIVE WORK
2021 London Trans+ Pride, Member - Community organizer, championing trans+ and intersex rights, London UK
2019 Otherness - Creator, Pioneers of the Other Perspective, Online
2018 Transmissions - Co-Director, Community organization for Trans and Gender Non-comforming Identities
London UK
2018 Cuntemporary - Member, Queer Feminist Collective, London UK
COMMISSIONS
2022 ‘Passing Gloves’ Exhibition and Published Book,
Artist: Orion Isaacs Commissioned by: Arts Council UK, Rich Mix and
Manchester Jewish Museum, Role: Visual Director / Photographer
2022 ‘im hole’ visual tour
Artist: aya (Aya Sinclair), Commissioned by: HYPERDUB/ Various Countries
Role: Visual Artist
2021 ‘It's Always You’ Moving Image Work and Exhibition
Artist: Sin Wai Kin, Commissioned by: Blind Spot Gallery and Shedale, Role: Videography/ Photographer
2021 ‘k-punk 2021: post-capitalist desire’ Exhibition
Multiple Sound Artists: a series of events celebrating the life
and work of Mark Fisher, Commissioned by: Institute of Contemporary Art Role: Visual Artist
2019 Other Voices Moving Image Commission
Artist: Sweatmother, New Creatives Scheme, in partnership with BBC, ICA and DAZED, London UK
2019 Visual Work Exhibition
Artist: Sweatmother, Commissioned by: 16th London Short Film Festival Opening Night Visuals
Institute of Contemporary Art, London UK
EDUCATION
2019 MA (Experimental Film with Distinction) Kingston School of Art. London, UK
2014 BFA (Cinematography with Honors) The Academy of Art University. San Francisco, USA
PUBLICATIONS
2021 The Critical Legacy of Mark Fisher, The Wire Vol: 445 March 2021
2021 K-punk parties on: new online film commission at ICA, The Art Newspaper
2020 The Art of Drag, Author: Jake Hall, "The Future of Drag" Contributor pg.120-121
2020 The Subversive Artistry of Filmmaker Sweatmother, Muse by Cilo Awards
2020 Soft Exits, Top 3 Experimental Films, DAZED
2019 Other Voices, Feature Short, BBC Iplayer