Jude Laurel

@judelaurelstudio

Jude Laurel works with contemporary and traditional printmaking techniques, as well as traditional oil painting, cartoon and observational drawing, digital artwork using Procreate and Photoshop, film photography and performance art. Within these various modes of production, Laurel explores themes of gender as a performance within the lived experience of a female-born nonbinary person. They are interested in female socialisation and how growing up with the gender roles of a woman has shaped their aesthetic interests, gender identity, gender expression, and how they move through the world. Within these gender roles is the concept of ‘cute’, which Laurel is deeply interested in as a language of expression, exploitation and subordination. Laurel has been developing their own style of cute since childhood, influenced by their upbringing and interests to express self-referential themes surrounding grief, mental illness, neglect, heartbreak, love, chronic illness, and their life experiences as a whole through this cute, graphic style.

View the work: Building 16, Building 27, Ground Floor Gallery