Conal McStravick

Conal McStravick (b.1979, Lurgan, N. Ireland, based in Glasgow, Scotland) is a UK-based, queer, non-binary artist currently undertaking a collaborative PhD between Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK and the UK artists’ moving image organization LUX, London, UK.

In their practice McStravick makes solo and collaborative artworks, workshops and events with artists, non-artists and communities that engage LGBTQ+ and queer feminist activisms, cultures, histories and practices through interventions with moving image, performance, event and text. This foregrounds past and future communities and activisms of care through intersections in Feminist, 2SLGBTQIA+  and AIDS activist archives.

McStravick has exhibited in the UK and overseas with solo and collaborative exhibitions and events 2005-present, as well as extended collaborative research projects: Learning in a Public Medium in 2015-2018, Picturing a Pandemic in 2020-21, with LUX, Vtape and partners and Queer Care Camp at Studio Voltaire, London between 2020-2022.

They have appeared on panels and given presentations on Stuart Marshall, AIDS activism and broader cultural activisms at AMIF 2015, ICA London, BFI Flare, The Essay Film Festival, Birkbeck University, HIV/AIDS Community Lecture Series, Concordia University, Archive/Counter-Archive, Vtape, Toronto and for AIDS 2022/ Videographe, Montreal.