After the success of 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0, with over 80 artists across 11 countries joining our warrior workshops we're doing another round and you're invited to get involved!

10 years ago I started taking myself a bit more seriously. After 5 years of knocking about nightclubs, putting on performance and dress up parties for queer kids in London I attempted to self legitimise and become an artist - I became Scottee.

As the last of my projects for 2017 come to an end it’s time for another end of year round up!

I’m an independent artist and activist based in Essex, working across UK. I didn't train to be an artist, I was expelled from school at 13 yrs old and was never put back into education, I never went to uni - I am making all of this up as I go along.

This week you can’t of missed the violent and misinformed preachings of the mainstream press discussing trans issues*, gender and what they deem to be a threat to every woman, child and trans exclusionary radical feminist or TERF, apparently.

Weirdos! Fond followers will know that every year I do a limited edition print. These help me keep the lights on in the winter months, fund me to throw the toys out the pram more often and they look nice in your houses.

Last week I met a new collaborator, someone I’ve never met in real life before. As I downed a mug of strong tea he suspiciously approached and said “...you must be Scottee! I was expecting something quite different!”

I’m doing the rounds, I’m one documentary away from being Ann Robinson or perhaps Clarissa Dickson Wright is more apt.

When people ask me who my favourite pop star, celebrity or famous crush is my mind draws a blank. Who is it I idolise? Who is my biggest role-model? Who do I want to be when I finally grow up?

Over the last 6 months I have been in residence at Metal Peterborough, creating work under the project title 'Queer Peterborough'…

Last September I handed over the keys to my council flat. London (my birthplace and hometown) has become an expensive, exploitive monster that I can’t keep up with. My husband decided to leave the security of social housing because we also wanted to move towards extending our family.

This week, as part of Kiertoliike 2017 I gave the arts sector in Finland a lecture on the urgency of engaged art. It explored where I saw the problem and who was to blame.

Scottee’s now annual NYE performance party has seen the likes of many used-to-be-known faces take to the stage of various dodgy gay boozers across London. After the purposeful death of his 70’s inspired knees up ‘CAMP’ Scottee wanted to create something with a bit more bite!

Sometimes you have to say things that may annoy folk because it’s the only way into discussing a painful truth. My painful truth is that I fear working class men.

Scottee grew up around strong, brave and violent men and boys. BRAVADO is his memoir of working class masculinity from 1991 to 1999 as seen by a sheep in wolves clothing.

There’s a new movement that you might be unaware of. It largely exists on instagram, it’s founders are internet famous and it has a massive cult following - some call it self love, others call it body acceptance or body confidence but what lurks beneath its hashtagged manifesto is a desire for fame, popularity and likes.

As many of you would have seen from my posts, Grandad passed away on Saturday 29th July at 3pm, surrounded by his children, my Mum cuddling him as he exited stage left.

I’ve been mouthing off about fatness for sometime now and I’ve made heaps of work about my chub as a result. I’ve made documentaries about it, short films, presented cult fat beauty pageants and even spent 24 hours giving out anti-fat shaming cards on the London Underground.

2017 marks the 50th year since the partial decriminalisation of sex between men in England and Wales - Essex based artist Scottee is using this anniversary to focus on the lives of two trailblazers who set the then sleepy fishing village of Wivenhoe alight.