Wet Mess is a wet mess, horny for your confusion. Let it all out and guess again at the insecure balding white man/pussy prince/alien baby. Have a lollygag, think about your fantasy flesh suits, call me sweet prince, and remember Roger in a kaftan. Choose to make some silly campy decisions, with all the hairy thems and dykey men. Mainly thinking about cunnilingus cunni cunni lingus but also being more unknown than known. All I really wanna do is strip for the stripper and drive her home with the dogs.
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Movement Direction & Choreography
Tove Lo dir. David Wilson, London Grammar dir. Dave Bullivant, Will Young dir. Wiz, Wolf Alice dir. Jordan Hemingway, Sons of Raphael dir. Wiz, Gabrielle Aplin dir. Charlotte Rutherford, Yonaka dir. Ali Kurr, Agua Roja dir. Robin & Cako, Trouble Wanted dir. Lydia Garnett, Spaces dir. James Murray, Hilang Child dir. Rosie Litterick, Buriers dir. Leo Williams, Antonia Luxem, ThisEgg Theatre, Second Circle Theatre, Sasha Wilde, Mette Sterre, Imogen Mahdavi, Mademywardrobe, Wovoka Gentle.
Performance
Eve Stainton, Kae Tempest, Monster Chetwynd, Cecile B. Evans, Beth Kettle, Molly Palmer, Rebecca Lloyd Evans, Pester & Rossi, Lola de la Mata, Fritz Welch, Dafne Boggeri, Matilda Finn, Bhebhe & Davis.
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
2025
Bodiless Thing Screening, STHLM DANS, Stockholm | May
Kae Tempest, Statue in the Square, Music Video Performance | Mar
TESTO, Chapter Cardiff | Mar
TESTO, Battersea Arts Centre | Feb
TESTO, Kampnagel, Hamburg | Jan
2024
Studio Magazine Feature | Nov
The Closet, David Wilson, The Barbican | Oct
TESTO, Cambridge Junction | Sept
The Closet, David Wilson, Rotterdam & Antwerp | Sept
TESTO Edinburgh Fringe, Here and Now Showcase | Aug
TESTO WIP, Colchester Arts Centre | May
TESTO WIP, Raze Collective, with Elle & Azara, Stanley Arts | May
The Closet, David Wilson, Barcelona | Apr
TESTO WIP, Queercall Folkestone | Mar
TESTO WIP, Quench Margate | Mar
Gay Times Drag Kings Magazine Feature | Mar
Performance for film Principal Boy, Maz Murray | Apr
Performance for film Xyz, trans healthcare | Mar
Movement Direction, Tove Lo, David Wilson | Mar
Movement Direction, Metamorphoses, Cockpit Theatre | Mar
Movement Direction, Plewds Kathrine Payne | Feb
Dulwich Picture Gallery | Feb
Club Vanitas | Feb
Movement Direction, Blubber Katie Greenhall, The Barbican | Jan
2023
Jose Funnel, Eye to Eye, ICA | Dec
The Closet David Wilson, Rotterdam/ Berlin | Oct/ Nov
TESTO: Live Drafts, solo show, The Yard | Sept
Trans Pride, Hastings | July
Mimis, Troxy, Peaches | July
Milk presents, Southbank Center, Christine and the queens | June
A Hard Man is good to Find, The Photographers Gallery | June
Tentacular Spectacular, Battersea Arts Center | June
Queer & Now, Tate Britain | June
Zizi & Me, V&A Museum | June
Disrupt, Cambridge Junction | May
Residency, Wysing Arts Centre | May
Galatea, Brighton Fringe | Apr/ May
Sound of the Underground, Royal Court | Jan/ Feb
2022
Torture Garden | Aug
Queefy, Mighty Hoopla | June
Club Urania, Cambridge | May
Jimbo support, Bristol | May
CAPC STASIS, Bordeaux | May
Haute Mess, Oxford | Apr
How to catch a pig | Apr
Faboo the Standard | Apr
Knickerbocker | Apr
Tonkotsu | Apr
Faboo War douche | Apr
Scissor Cis Tears | Apr
Get it out the mud, ICA | Mar
Honey Badgers
Duckie, RVT | Mar
Kings of Clubs | Mar
Fist music video Peaches, Leigh Bowery | Mar
Queefy Rhys Pieces, Two Brewers | Mar
Apples & Pears Me the drag queen, The Apple Tree | Mar
Show me how you care workshop, Open School East | Mar
Non-Binary Cabaret Shakona Fire, The Glory | Mar
Faboo, Common Decency | Mar
Love2Love Embassy Gallery Edinburgh | Feb
NADC finals show, RVT | Feb
Queerdos Cabaret, The Glory | Feb
Polyglamorous, Chalk Brighton | Feb
2021
Winner Not Another Drag Competition | Nov
Finalist Lip Sync 1000 | Nov
STASIS, Dansehallerne | Nov
STASIS residency Glasgow, Nora Swantje Almes | Oct
Schemata, Corsica Studios, Online Exhibition | Sept
Vogue Italia | Aug
R&D RUT, Siobhan Davies, Joseph Bond, Sia Gbamoi & Sakeema Crook | June
Trouble Wanted gig, We are Portals | June
Collaboration Oliver Chanarin & Forma Projects | May
Trouble Wanted gig, Shackelwell Arms | 29th May
Point 101 Print Commission | May
Elysium, Mademywardrobe | Mar
R&D Drivers Seat, Sadlers Wells & Shoreditch Town Hall | Mar
2020
Sissy Fatigue, Athens Video Dance Project | 18th-20th Dec
Lonely Cowgirl, Trouble Wanted, Online Release | 8th Dec
Sissy Fatigue, Margate Film Festival | 27th-29th Nov
Faux Pas, STASIS, OGR screening in Turin | 11th Oct
Dismantle, ThisEgg, Koppel Projects | 22nd Aug
Grit/Oyster, online release Uncertain Kingdom & BFI, performance | 15th June
WET MESS, drag performance via Club Quarantine X Tomboys Don’t Cry | 15th May
MotherEarth, ThisEgg, Vaults Festival | 25th Feb
Lend your ears, open your eyes Exhibition and Auction, Koppel gallery | 31st Jan
Sissy Fatigue, London Short Film Festival | 10th-19th Jan
2019
Sissy Fatigue, Non-classical | 21st Nov
Sissy Fatigue, Fringe Queer Film Festival | 16th Nov
Sissy Fatigue, Tomboys Don’t Cry, Milan | 9th Nov
STASIS, V - Faux pas, OGR, Turin | 11th Oct
Sissy Fatigue, Raindance Film Festival | 24th Sept
Dressed at British Council Showcase, Edinburgh Fringe Festival | 19th-25th Aug
Sissy Fatigue, Place and Platform | 12th-16th Aug
WET MESS, drag performance Lip Sync 1000 Final, The Clapham Grand | 10th July
Sissy Fatigue, Thunderdance Film Festival | 18th June
UK Tour of Dressed, Home, Manchester | 4th-8th June
UK Tour of Dressed, The Garage, Norwich | 24th-26th May
UK Tour of Dressed, Tobacco Factory, Bristol | 21st-23rd May
Encore, Brouhaha, solo performance, The Lab Gallery, Dublin | 25th April
STASIS Best of Best of, A Vague Sense of Anxiety, Residency and Performance IMMA, Dublin | 14th- 27th April
UK Tour of Dressed, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | 11th-13th Apr
UK Tour of Dressed, Shoreditch Town Hall | 26th-5th Mar Apr
UK Tour of Dressed, Glasgow Tron Theatre | 14th -16th Mar
UK Tour of Dressed, Battersea Arts Centre | 26th - 2nd Feb Mar
Tracksuit Trendy, Liverpool, performing for Lola de la Mata | 2nd Feb
2018
Sissy Fatigue, screening and performance evening, Nora Almes and Hervisions, Brunel Museum | 11th Dec
STASIS Heavyweight 360 video released via BBC scotland | 19th Sept
STASIS Cherry Lips, Crystal Skies, Mimosa House, London, curated by Nora Almes | 14th Sept
STASIS The Last Aha, Salon 63, London | 15th Sept
STASIS The Sedate, Merchants City Festival, Glasgow | 10th Aug
Dressed, ThisEgg, Edinburgh Fringe Festival | 5th-26th Aug
STASIS Romanticrash, Jupiter Artland Edinburgh | 28th July
John Moores Painting Exhibition, John Walker Gallery, Liverpool | July
STASIS Summer Party, A Sedation, David Dale Gallery | 30th June
STASIS A Dank Hangout for UFO Enthusiasts, performing for Fritz Welch, Summer hall, Edinburgh | 26th June
Shot clock, performance by Pheobe Davies, Beth Kettle and Olivia Norris, curated by Joseph Bond | Cob Gallery | 6th June
STASIS The Sedate (wet version) Glasgow International, Love Unlimited | 28th April
STASIS V - Faux Pas, dance and film screening at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh | 2nd march
STASIS, The Sedate, Resolution, The Place, London | 22nd Feb
STASIS, The Sedate Other Faces 2 curated by Francis Doso, Edinburgh | Stasis | 16th Feb
2017
This One’s For You, solo performance, Front Horse Nottingham | 9th Dec
Stuffstarts, Gel Painting Collective, New Glasgow Society | 10th Nov
STASIS, Eros, DRAF 10th Anniversary at Koko, Frieze art Fair London | 3rd Oct
STASIS, Eros, Sluice, streamed on Thisistomorrow | 2nd Oct
Hummlemania, performing for Mette Sterre, Birmingham Weekender | 23rd & 24th Sept
Black Hole Empire, choreography for Mette Sterre, London College of Fashion | 22nd Sept
This One’s For You, solo performance, Supernormal Festival, Oxford | 5th, 6th August
STASIS, It Just Keeps Happening, Dance International Glasgow | 9th May
STASIS, Liane - Linae - Alien, curated by Dafne Boggeri, Marselleria Permanent Exhibition, Milan | 19th April
STASIS, Best Of, show with James Findlay, Embassy Show at Hutt Collective, Nottingham | 16th March
Mercy Seat, Music Video, Official Selection for Denver Film Festival | March
Bread and Butter, solo immersive show, Chaodowntown, Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam | 4th March
STASIS, V, Faux Pas, | 6th Jan
2016
Touch My Ego (please), group show with Jesse Rivers and Edinburgh Leisure, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh | 25th Nov - 15th Dec
STASIS, It Just Keeps Happening, Performing for Pester and Rossi, Baltic 39, Newcastle | 5th Nov
STASIS, Pompe, London | 7th Sept
Wovoka Gentle, performance, Chats Palace & The Pick Factory London | 29th Oct 28th April
STASIS, She is a soft touch, I Still Belive at Inverleith House, Edinburgh | 14th Aug
STASIS, Circus Between Worlds, Glasgow International, Neil Bromwich and Zoe Walker | 8th - 10 April
STASIS, Mega Hammer | Glasgow International | Marvin Gaye Chetwynd | 7th April