I’m an artist, witch, poet and computer-game designer living in Shetland, UK. I make work inhabited by toilet gods, crossroads, boglands, and necromancy, percolating British folklore through painting and poetry involved with desire, grief, and excess.
In 1995, I bought my first album on CD, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers 'One Hot Minute', at a record shop in Penzance. I listened to it once, and the next day exchanged it for a copy of 'Live Through This' by Hole. It was in this moment I knew I was trans.
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Selected publications:
- Two Dolls & An Egg, collaborative essay with Uma Breakdown to be published in upcoming issue of Almanac Journal of Trans Poetics (forthcoming 2024)
- 8 page artist feature in SLUICE Magazine (2023)
- Crossroads & Girldick, essay in TISSUE PAPER Magazine (upcoming)
- Painting featured in the publication, Responses to Untitled (eye with comet) by Paul Thek, published by Pilot Press (March 2023)
- Viscose Baby Girl Goo, essay and drawing published in Sticky Fingers Publication upcoming Masturbatory Reader (March 2023)
- Edict nailed to a tree, poem published as part of AMBIT: The MAGICK Issue (2023)
- Extract from Choose Ur Adventure Poem published in Folklore For Resistance (2023)
- 8 page painting, commissioned feature in Art Licks Magazine, Issue 27 (2022)
- There’s always Things Falling Out The Sky, a book length poem about Bigfoot, published by Pink Sands Studio (2021)
- From 2014 - 2019, alongside Tom Prater, Belladonna Paloma was the co-editor and director of Doggerland, an online and small-press print publication exploring artist-led culture in the UK. http://www.doggerland.info/review/
Selected exhibitions & performances:
- Come on In, group exhibition at Snails Project Space, Oslo (Upcoming June 2025)
- Wet Documents / Disreputable Bodies, collab with Rabindranath X Bhose & Oren Shoesmith, Gaada, Shetland (March 2025)
- THE GRAVE IN FULL VIGOUR, solo exhibition at Generator Projects, Dundee (Nov 2024)
- You can call me horse, collab with Daniella Valz Gen, Whitechapel, London (May 2024)
- Corpores Infames, collab with Rabindranath X Bhose & Oren Shoesmith, Glasgow International Festival (June 2024)
- Performance at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2024)
- Tartarus in Bloom, symposium with Uma Breakdown and Amy Hale, Quad, Derby (2024)
- Penned Prophecies, workshop for Glasgow Zine Fair, CCA (2024)
- Nothing Pure, curated by Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson, IMT Gallery, London (2023)
- The Well of Sickness Shimmering, game collab with Uma Breakdown, The Overkill Festival, NL (2023)
Dance in the Sacred Domain, collab with Rabindranath Bhose and Oren Shoesmith, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2023)
- Bog-lore, solo exhibition at Display, Gaada, Shetland (Feb 2023)
- YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, audio collaboration with Daniella Valz Gen, commissioned as part of group exhibition at Gropius Bau, Berlin (2022)
- DRIP, group show at Two Queens, Leicester (2022)
- Descent to Kilgrimol Rx, solo exhibition at Abingdon Studios, Blackpool (2022)
- Surface of Scum, collaboration with Uma Breakdown, commissioned by MayFest (2022), Bristol, and now permanently hosted online by hoaxpublication.org
- Poetry performance at Rights Night, Bristol Old Vic (2022)
- Poetry performance at Herstory Festival, Exeter (2022)
- Wet Ceridwen & The Skuzz Nymphs, text-based computer game, online commission (2021)
- Caraboo Projects, Bristol (2021)
- Performance with Cambridge Literary Review (2021)
- Commissioned installation (with Lucie Akerman), Radmin Festival, Bristol (2019)
- Stage design for Supernormal Festival, Oxfordshire (2019)
Residencies & Awards:
- Foyle Visual Artist Residency, Hospitalfield, Arbroath (April 2025)
- Workshop Residency, LungA Art School, Iceland (Jan 2025)
- Unlimited Development Award 2024
- Emergent Artist shortlist and mentorship recipient with Shape Arts & BALTIC (2023)
- 2023 Residency Artist with Wysing Arts Centre
- Recipient of the Vital Capacities Award, Brighton (2023)
- Trailblazer Award, Bristol + Bath Creative R+D (2022)
- Gaada Workshop Bursary recipient, Shetland (2022)
- WORK/LEISURE Residency, Abingdon Project Space, Blackpool (2022)
- Recipient of Arts Council England DYCP Fund (2021-22)
- Scratch Residency, Caribou, Bristol (2021)
Image courtesy of Sophie Leroux