Sweatmother is an artist and filmmaker based in London. His moving image work blends performance, self-recorded documentation, internet and archival footage in order to explore and make visible queer lived experiences. Experimental techniques are often incorporated throughout his work such as the triple baked method, an original image making technique using a video synthesizer.

Sweatmother seeks to create art for his community to share, learn from and find solace in sensitive depictions of their shared raw realities and obscured histories. He continues to develop his visual art practice alongside his collaborations and lived experiences, proposing new ways the world can interact with otherness.

Sweat experiments with “interventions against forgetting” within his archival project Otherness Archive, an accessible online-based archive, that combines pioneering contemporary audiovisual works with their pre-existing counterparts, creating a space where past, present and future coexist in a joint mission of the work representative of the trans and queer experience.

Instagram: @Sweatmother

Dyke, Just Do It at ICA 2023

Current:

Rupert Resident, April - May 2025

Notable Awards & Commissions include:

Sweatmother, Protest and Demo Documentations 2019-2023, Venice Biennale Arte 2024 curated by Adriano Pedrosa (Venice, Italy) 2024
Untitled, National Competition, Encounters Film Festival (Bristol, UK) 2023
Untitled, First Prize Jury, 69th Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Germany) 2023
They'll Remember Me by My Teeth Performance, DISHES, Volkstheater Wien, (Vienna) 2023
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network Fellowship (FLAMIN, London UK) 2021-2022
New Commission: ‘k-punk 2021: post-capitalist desire for Mark Fisher’ Exhibition, ICA, (London, UK) 2021
Femme Cowboy, Open School East with Jack Halberstam (Margate, UK) 2022
Femme Cowboy, Jeune Création 71, Fondation Fiminco, (Paris, FR) 2022
Other Voices, Minneapolis Institute of Art (MY, USA) 2022
Soft Exits, Bookmarks of Discomfort (NY, USA), 2022
New Film Commission: Other Voices - BBC New Creatives Commission (London, UK) 2020
Top 10 Moving Image Artists, Brighton Photo Fringe Biennial (Brighton, UK) 2018

Notable Artists Work and Collaborators include:

Mark Fisher, Kylie Minogue, Christine and the Queens, Sin Wai Kin, Eliot Duncan, INFERNO, aya , Lewis G Burton

Selected AV shows include:

REWIRE (Den Haag), Expo, la fete du sli (Lausanne), Club to Club (Turin), CTM Festival Volksbuehne (Berlin), White Hotel (Manchester), Mutek (Barcelona), Nuits Sonores (Lyon) and Mucho Flow (Guimarães)

Notable Curations/ Programming:

Otherness Archive Residency: Living Archives and Ethical Curations, Bali Indonesia May 2024
Dyke Video Dungeon: 40+ Years of the Dyke Music Video, Fringe! Film Festival, Rich Mix London UK September 2023
Otherness Archive: Rage & Joy, Grief & Play, Queer Now, Tate Britain London UK June 2023
Otherness Archive: T-Masc Erotics Through the Cam Hole, Catus Club, Milwaukee United States April 2023
Otherness Archive: Transmasculine Desires, Moving Image Group Exhibition Ugly Duck London UK October 2022
Otherness Archive: The Forgotten Archives of the Trans Masc Experience, Film Programm, 19th London Short Film Festival, Genesis Theater London UK January 2022
Otherness Archive: Trans Moving Image Histories, Iron Works, Brighton UK 2021

*Video or Photography Portfolio Upon Request