RSA 2024 GRADUATES

2024BA → Jesse Archer

Trend, acrylic, stitching, and print on chest compression tape, approx
60cm × 44cm, 2023.

Jesse Archer

BA in Art and English Literature 

My mixed media and videography work has emerged as a response to social and political debates around bodily autonomy, tracking repeated patterns through history and media in which the body of the individual becomes a topic of public concern. Approaching this through a queer lens, I aim to critique how easily a personal life experience can become politicised due to authoritarian responses to non-conformity. In particular, I have focused on current threats of censorship and moral panic surrounding topics of queerness and LGBTQ+ rights in my most recent artwork, using a combination of film, text, and multimedia to explore and bring awareness to
these subjects.

Moral Panic, film still, Canon DSLR 800D, duration: 1 minute 31 seconds, 2024.
Moral Panic, text screenprint on fabric, 170cm × 300cm, 2024.
Trend 2: This has happened before, film still, Canon DSLR 800D,
duration: 3 minutes 32 seconds, 2023.
Trend 2: This has happened before, film still, Canon DSLR 800D,
duration: 3 minutes 32 seconds, 2023.

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