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About Bee
An award-winning illustrator, curator, and interdisciplinary creative based in London, Bee (aka @beeillustrates) combines their artistic practice with digital mediums to act as a means of storytelling. Bee's work often centres around personal narratives from their own experiences of navigating mental health issues and exploring their queer identity, and aims to educate, empower, and inform on a range of important topics. They graduated from The University of Edinburgh with a First Class Ba (Hons) in Illustration, having also completed courses in Queer Studies, Curation and Social Anthropology.
Alongside their creative practice, Bee often delivers guest lectures at top universities, offers creative mentoring and professional practice support, and in 2024 was a board member for the Barbican Centre’s Imagine Fund, allocating funding to community arts projects.
Bee is also the co-founder of Hysterical, a yearly group exhibition and cultural programme that takes place throughout Women's History Month. The event platforms creatives of marginalised genders reclaiming the term hysterical, and using their practices to call for change. Following their debut's massive success in 2022, they returned in 2023 with Hysterical: A Celebration of Subversive Art, an event described by the Evening Standard as 'an intimate and cathartic exploration of misogyny.'
The 2024 rendition of Hysterical was centred around Radical Creativity. Unlike in previous years, Bee & Eliza made their collaborative debut as exhibiting artists - creating a full-scale immersive bathroom installation, Vacant // Engaged - which explored intimate themes of gender identity, safety and public spaces.
