This year, Dave, a Brighton-based artist specialising in bright, bold pop art, with a generous topping of seaside sauce, has chosen five artists from the contemporary queer cabaret scene who play with the idea of drag, gender, burlesque and sexuality to be the subjects of his exhibition – Dolly Rocket, Boogaloo Stu, Stephanie Starlet, David Hoyle and Dave the Bear.
The process of creating the portraits starts off with drawing, which is fundamental to Dave’s work, then different techniques and materials are used to create a piece that is individual and suits the subject best. For Boogaloo Stu’s portrait a clean sharp line drawing was scanned into the computer, then finished using bright flat colours, whereas for David Hoyle, a much more expressionistic style was adopted to reflect his anarchic look.
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