Lo Lo No
Margate, England
Hello, my name is Lo Lo No.
I'm a trans-disciplinary artist, researcher and curator with a focus on self-portraiture and curating LGBTQIA+ artists.
Here I present some of my personal work as ‘constellations’, galleries that hold imagery, text and video that constellate the themes of my research and art practice.
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Themes of binary inheritance, trauma and transformations, portals and heterotopias, otherness and affirmation, cosmologies, intra-psychic, digital and cellular activities. Methodologies and materials I use to explore these themes are;
Painting, collage, mixed media, auto-ethnography, digital production, fashion, drawing, Drag and performance.
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I make self-portraits as an access tool, a way of seeing and becoming in a society where I struggled to see myself reflected. They are a site to explore and perform, embody and enchant my self-expression and process my experiences.
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I'm interested in archetypes, primordial lineages, social reproduction and chimerisation within myth, philosophy, self and society; In conversation with identity, metaphor and paradox. I'm also interested in manifesting cognitive experiences, using emotional materiality in performance and conjuring of narrative essence through symbolic set design, costuming and makeup.
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I'm prolific in my processes and often use and re-use my own imagery and sound making in a process that condenses, undulates and abstracts its subjectivity, producing distillations of themes in alchemical processes that I can further contextualise through the process of making and reflecting.
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Working commercially as a storyboard and concept artist in the music, fashion and advertising sector I've collaborated with directors, producers and photographers on productions for Mugler, Rolls Royce and Bjork among others.
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I'm a producer for Margate Pride and curate the Pride Art Map, a two weeks festival of exhibitions and workshops centering queer art and performance. I facilitate workshops for LGBTQIA+ wellness platform We Create Space and have delivered numerous workshops and talks on queer identity, ethical fashion campaigning and my experience as an activist in the creative industries.
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I recently featured on BBC One's 'Extraordinary Portraits', a link to the show can be found here.
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I've also completed a Masters in Fine Art at ESADHaR and The Margate School and I am a trustee for AiRM (Art in Romney Marsh).
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