Sweatmother is an artist and filmmaker. 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.
Dyke, Just Do It at ICA 2023
Current:
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Tom of Finland Artist Resident, August - October 2025
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Rupert Artist Resident, April - May 2025
Selected Achievements + Showings:
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Live Open Recipient, White Chapel Gallery (2025)
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Sweatmother, Protest and Demo Documentations 2019-2023, Venice Biennale Arte 2024 curated by Adriano Pedrosa (Venice, Italy) 2024
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Untitled, National Competition, Encounters Film Festival (Bristol, UK) 2023
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Untitled, First Prize Jury, 69th Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Oberhausen) 2023
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They'll Remember Me by My Teeth Performance, DISHES, Volkstheater Wien, (Vienna) 2023
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Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network Fellowship (FLAMIN, London UK) 2021-2022
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New Commission: ‘k-punk 2021: post-capitalist desire for Mark Fisher’ Exhibition, ICA, (London, UK) 2021
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Femme Cowboy, Open School East with Jack Halberstam (Margate, UK) 2022
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Femme Cowboy, Jeune Création 71, Fondation Fiminco, (Paris, FR) 2022
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Other Voices, Minneapolis Institute of Art (MY, USA) 2022
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)
*Video or Photography Portfolio Upon Request