CORK QUEER ARTISTS The past year has been incredibly difficult for our musicians, writers, visual artists, poets, and designers etc. The absence of this culture
JIM CRICKARD Jim Crickard’s poetry is camp, entertaining work that explores culture, sexuality and identity with a hint of colour. In 2020 he was invited to represent Cork in the Cork-Coventry Twin City Exchange, which was moved online due to pandemic. In 2019 he was selected by Poetry Ireland for the inaugural Versify series, and performed to a sold out show at Dublin Fringe Festival. He came second in the 2019 All Ireland Poetry Slam Final (and is working through his feelings about it with a therapist). In 2018, he won the Cuirt Spoken Word Platform and was awarded a slot to perform at Electric Picnic. In 2020 his poetry was broadcasted on RTE Arena. A poem he wrote was shortlisted in the 2018 O’Bheal International Five Words Competition, and his work has been published in Automatic Pilot, A New Ulster, and Contemporary Poetry.
has signalled a greater than ever need for our community to unite; Cork Pride would like to do its part to help in solidarity and support. Check out some of those talented individuals below and we encourage you to engage and enjoy their work. Also, a simple ‘follow, like or share’ is always appreciated.
Instagram: @knownonlyasjim
KODY THEO I am a filmmaker, screenwriter, and photographer. My goal as a creator is to build a platform and safe space for LGBT+ people, where they can see themselves living full, happy lives, and not being torn down by tragedy and pain. I aim to capture moments of beauty, peace, and harmony, showing the world that this is our community. We deserve joy. This is also why I helped create Queer Plus Productions, a production company ran completely by LGBT+ people. We understand the frustration of never feeling seen or heard, but we aim to bring that to an end.
ALANA DALY MULLIGAN Alana Daly Mulligan is a multi-award-winning spoken-word “artivist”, journalist & filmmaker of Déise extraction. Her work revolves around growing up queer in Ireland, and the people in her life that help to shape it. Alana has performed across Ireland and the United States, competed as a finalist in several slams and had films win awards on both sides of the Atlantic. Alana features in Autonomy, Solstice Sounds Vol: VI, Quarryman V, Ó’Bheal’s 5-Words Vol XII and Motley Magazine. Alana has just completed a degree in English and History in University College Cork where she was a Quercus Active Citizenship Scholar & Eoin Murray Creative Writing Scholar.
Instagram: @kxdytheo
MATT HIGGS My name is Matthew Higgs, I’m a 26 year old drag artist (Dakota Mode), videographer, pianist and recent graduate from Crawford College of Art and Design where I majored in digital photography that included elements of sculptural installation! My digital photography work centralises on toxic masculinity and the stigma around male victims of domestic abuse in Ireland, this is influenced heavily by my own personal experiences with sexuality and domestic abuse in adulthood.
www.alanadalymulligan.com
PAULINE WALSH Pauline Walsh, Landscape Artist from Skerries Co.Dublin now living in West Cork. During her time in Dublin, Pauline worked for Don Bluth Studios and worked on the classic movies “Land Before Time”, “All Dogs go to Heaven” and it’s sequel “All Dogs II”. Pauline’s work while nature based tend to include bodies of water, from large seascapes. However, living close to the beautiful woodlands of West Cork, has inspired Pauline to create paintings that give a sense of being immersed in those forests. She paints using oil on canvas, building up textures to create this feeling of depth. Pauline has exhibited throughout Ireland, her work is widely collected and commissioned both privately and commercially and is included in the following collections – Hennessey, Roxy New York, Jeremy Irons and the Department of the Marine.
Instagram: @MattHiggsArtist
www.paulinewalshart.com
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