Lo Lo No

Lo Lo No is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher and curator with a focus on self-portraiture and LGBTQIA+ experiences. Exploring society at large and socioeconomics, psychoanalysis and philosophies, their research areas focus on the other and the unfamiliar. They create self-portraits as an access tool, a way of seeing and becoming in a society where they have struggled to see themselves reflected. They conjure cognitive spaces and investigate the symbolic life, the subconscious, esoteric and imagined as a way of channelling and establishing archetypes, primordial lineages, social reproduction and chimerisation within myth, philosophy, self and society. Working commercially as a curator, art director, storyboard artist and concept designer, they have collaborated on productions for Mugler, Rolls Royce and Bjork. They also facilitate workshops for the LGBTQIA+ wellness platform We Create Space, Turner Contemporary and others and deliver talks and performative lectures. Lo Lo No has produced the Margate Pride arts festival for three years and is currently featured on the BBC’s Extraordinary Portraits.

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I gained a Masters in Fine Art at TMS as one of its first students, an educational experience that has been life-changing for my art practice and my sense of self and how I navigate the world. TMS has continued to be a second home and reliable resource for support, friendship and usability with exhibition and production facilities… that serves so many and goes above and beyond for the Margate community as a whole.

Lo Lo No