Evelyn Wh_ell (b. 1995) is an artist, writer and researcher. Working across a variety of media, including text, performance, installation, video and the digital, they explore trans subjectivity through narrative tropes and formal traps. Their practice is based on research into materialist histories of trans aesthetics, also including histories of trans medicalism, trans media, trans memoir and trans as metaphor, to critique queer epistemologies that foreclose on the possibility of transition.


Keywords: gallows humour; the impossible; the empty promise of escape through self-actualisation; wormholes; neo-noir; predictive methodologies; horror; locked doors; is this even real?; DIY; hatchet job; dissociative aesthetics; deferred endings; social architectures; doomscrolling; feedback loops and loopholes; egg style; undying; disappearing acts


evelyn.wh.ell@gmail.com


CV

Forthcoming
‘Queer infrastructures’, Common Guild, Glasgow. December 2024.
TOP GEAR, montly column in Sticky Fingers postal mail-out. ONGOING.


Selected projects and work
THE FIELD IS FOREVER, Two Queens Leicester. Group exhibition. 27 September - 5 October 2024.
‘Radical Deviance: A Very Brief History,’ in Radical Deviance: A Graphic Remix, self-published zine by Kaiya Waerea, 2024.
‘A common treasury,’ Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction, longlisted (2024) 
DOUBLE ENTRY, performance and installation with Hugo Hagger @ TACO! July 2024. (see review in The Wire)
‘Minori-T Report 2: The Prologue,’ GET RID OF MEANING (Sticky Fingers Publishing, 2024).
Residency @ The Field, Derbyshire. April 2024.
Reading @ launch of Hannah Levene’s novel Greasepaint (New York: Nightboat Books, 2024), Housmans Bookshop, March 2024.
‘T-Ball,’ TISSUE PAPERS #01.
‘An evening with T-Ball,’ TISSUE PAPERS #01: Making, Whitechapel Gallery, November 2023.
‘FenEnders,’ FENWOMEN, November 2023.
‘Penis models and model penises:  queer exceptionalism and achieving a trans ideal,’ Models: World Picture Journal, ICI Berlin. November 2023.
Artist-in-residence at RUPERT. Vilnius, Lithuania. September-October 2023.
THE SET UP, Kauno menininkų namai/Kaunas Artists’ House (KMN/KAH), Lithuania. October 2023.
BLESS THIS HOUSE, readings on the queer domestic with Hugo Hagger, Hesse K. and O.S. Warren, Residency 11:11. Kingsgate Project Space. October 2023.
‘My Coffin is a Space Ship,’ with Uma Breakdown. AW/A and Auto Italia. May 2023.
‘Material(ist) t-boys, a trans vernacular,’ Screen Annual Conference, Glasgow, June 2023.
‘St Pelagius the Penitent (1997) and the trans divine,’ Association for Art History Annual Conference. London, April 2023.
‘Down the Wormhole’: non-linear story-telling and collective experimentation with Twine. Kupfer Project Space with Collective Cukurcuma, April 2023.
Memoirs of a Child Plot Hole: The Radio Drama, Sticky Fingers in Your Ears, Repeater Radio. February 2023.
‘I am a Photograph,’ Art Monthly, Feburary 2023. Winner of the Michael O’Pray Prize.
Visiting lecturer at London College of Communications, University of the Arts London. 2023.
Enter the hole? Yes/No, Kingsgate Project Space, London, August 2022.
Artist-in-residence at Residency 11:11, London. August 2022.
Associate lecturer at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. 2022-2023.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Commissioned Writer. 2022.
Guest editor for FDBNNHLLLTTFPARODY, Sticky Fingers Publishing, November 2022.
‘Trans masculine slasher phantasies and the posttranssexual,’ Queer Masculinities in Contemporary Art, DFG funded project ‘Masculinities Under (Re)Construction: Male Bodies Between Phallic and Post-Phallic Visualizations in Art since 1970,’ Marie-Jahoda-Center for International Gender Studies and the Art Historical Institute of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, September 2022.
‘Theseus’s space-ship: towards a “cut and paste” trans masc aesthetic,’ Screen Annual Conference, Glasgow, July 2022.
Research Associate at CCA Derry~Londonderry, 2022-2024.
In conversation with D Mortimer, Burley Fisher Books, London, June 2022.
Memoirs of a Child Plot Hole: How to Escape Yourself Without Even Trying (London: Sticky Fingers Publishing, 2022)
‘The Labyrinth: Part One of a Fascinating Case of Intrigue, A Tale Most Mysterious!,’ in Dead Lovers: Anaïs Nin, ed. by Kaiya Waerea and Sophie Paul (London: Sticky Fingers Publishing, 2021), 15-28.
Keyboard Fantasies: in conversation with Posy Dixon and Liv Proctor, The Horse Hospital, London. November 2021.
Member of working group for Anti-instiution summer school, The Horse Hospital, London. August-September 2021.
cocks away, after the big screen, Permeable Barrier 3. 2021.
‘Withdrawal, or: the artist formerly known as Lee Lozano has left the building,’ Cambridge Literary Review 13 (2021), 60-73.
2 small penile poems, b l u s h lit. 2021.