Evelyn Wh_ell 


(b.1995) is an artist, writer and researcher living in Cambridge. Their practice uses critical and creative strategies to interrogate the relation between aesthetic forms of representation and political, social and bodily organisational discourses, concretising around transmasculinity as a troubling site of ambivalence always in excess of the economies of images which produce it. Evelyn primarily makes use of parody and (gallows) humour as strategies to navigate the ‘traps’ of gendered subjectivity. 

Their first monograph, Memoirs of a Child Plot Hole: How to Escape Yourself Without Even Trying was published in 2022 by Sticky Fingers Publishing. They are currently a CCA Derry~Londonderry 2022-2024 Research Associate, where they are developing a collaborative writing project about folk devils, queer masculinity, dress codes, screen violence, and predictions of one’s own impending death. Evelyn’s writing has been published by Another Gaze, Art Monthly, Cambridge Literary Review, World Picture Journal, and permeable barrier, and they were a Commissioned Writer for New Contemporaries in 2022. They were a 2022 Resident at Residency 11:11, London, and have participated in programmes for The Horse Hospital, London, Kettle’s Yard and Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge. They are also the host of ‘The Disenfranchised Things Talk Show’ on No Bounds Radio, a monthly experimental programme dedicated to channelling the voices of low-down low-lives, gender deviants, fabulous faggot-fairies, and the angelic arseholes of revolution.