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Going back through Soft Territories: Crossings and slowly rebuilding the archive on @are.na Working with multiple artists and works, images, fragments from the exhibition and more to come. Still finding things there I’d forgotten about. www.are.na/jared-pappas... #QueerArt #ArtArchive #ArtWriting

Abstract painting predominantly blue, white, tan; Thomas Arnold, Gravitating

Installation view with blue image with constellation of white fabric objects tethered by blue string with audio headphones; Shruti Gaonkar, Indigo Darpan

Loose drawing of space hopper; River Smith, Not Safe for Childhood series

Game rendering skins of male nude and skeletal with digital overlays; Jonathan Armour, Angel Skins (video still)

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 08/10/2026

Another contribution to today’s #OnlineArtExchange theme, ‘queer joy’, hosted by @artukdotorg.bsky.social : Vlad Cohen, Queer and Faithful Hound, from Soft Territories: pupandtiger.co.uk/exhibitions/... Join in with the hashtag!

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 08/10/2026

Our first contribution to today’s #OnlineArtExchange theme, ‘queer joy’: Julian Konuk, Space Dykes and Other Adventures (video still), from Soft Territories: pupandtiger.co.uk/exhibitions/... Join in with the hashtag!

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Hey, checking in as trying to be more active here. We’ve got exciting things happening and trying to build more here rather than (ahem) meta for obvious reasons. Say hi, reach out, or amplify if inclined? -Jared A hint of what’s coming, by Alex Hetherington. #ArtSky #QueerArt #ContemporaryArt

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 06/10/2026

From the Transmissions archive: Douglas A. Martin, Room of the Troubled One “I make my stacks upon tables and the floor, plans, towers and fans of others…” #QueerLit #QueerArt #ArtWriting #ContemporaryArt @douglasarthur.bsky.social pupandtiger.co.uk/art-and-arti...

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 30/09/2026

From the #PupandTiger archive: Lance Lin, The Endurer, from Soft Territories: Crossing One. “This project stemmed from my foot/footwear fetish. It dissects masculinity as a set of socially constructed attributes…” pupandtiger.co.uk/exhibitions/... #QueerArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtSky

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 29/01/2026

Please share widely. Our Emergent open call is now live We’re looking for strong, exciting work by queer artists. Any style, any approach. Work doesn’t need to look “queer” to belong. Limited-run print exhibitions at Pup and Tiger pupandtiger.co.uk/artist-calls... #QueerArt #ArtistCall #OpenCall

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 12/07/2025

Jumping Off is our first-ever queer art zine: an intro to Pup and Tiger and what we’re building. Inside: artist interviews, thoughts on living with art, and more. Free for subscribers. Sign up via bio for access. If it resonates, share it. 💫 pupandtiger.co.uk/newsletter-s... #queerart #zine

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 18/06/2025

We spoke with Charles Carroll about his degree show at UCA, queer storytelling, the lyricism of language, and the politics of asking questions. Part of Transmissions, our series spotlighting emerging artists. Read more: pupandtiger.co.uk/art-and-arti... #PupAndTiger #QueerArt #Canterbury

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 25/05/2025

It’s official, Soft Territories is getting a special showcase over at Dennis Cooper’s site. Want to be part? Still accepting submissions from queer artists: pupandtiger.co.uk/soft-territo... Let the edges blur. Please share! #SoftTerritories #PupAndTiger #ArtistOpenCall #QueerArt #DennisCooper

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 06/05/2025

Shoutout to the brilliant @robinhobb.bsky.social — one of my favourite humans. 🖤 Her support for Pup & Tiger means the world. We’re building something beautiful together: 👉 pupandtiger.co.uk/donate #RobinHobb #FarseerTrilogy #PupAndTiger 🐾🏳️‍🌈📚

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 03/05/2025

New Vision Backer print reward! 🐢 Inspired by Huysmans’s Against Nature—a jeweled tortoise as a symbol of queer decadence, artifice, and life beyond the norm. Beauty in excess, meaning in detail. 💛 pupandtiger.co.uk/donate #QueerArt #PrintReward #PupAndTiger #DennisCooper

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 02/05/2025

Shoutout to the effortlessly cool Douglas A. Martin — brilliant writer + longtime supporter. Grateful for the love + generosity! 🖤 Big thanks to everyone backing Pup & Tiger — every share + donation keeps us going: 👉 pupandtiger.co.uk/donate #PupAndTiger #QueerArt #QueerLit

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 02/05/2025

“For me, filmmaking is more of a ritual or devotional practice of repeated attempts at capturing and escaping the frame.” -Wu Tsang #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #WuTsang #PupandTiger

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 01/05/2025

“I turned down an offer to be in a coffee table book about the male nude because I don't want them being placed in that context too frequently. Their context is more mythological.” #ElijahBurgher #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #PupandTiger

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 30/04/2025

“I don’t know if I am always succeeding, but these are the things that keep me in the studio.” - Cajsa von Zeipel #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #CajsavonZeipel

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 29/04/2025

“My dolls sort of make me less threatening to people, easier from them to understand.” #GreerLankton #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #PupandTiger

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 29/04/2025

Not every morning you wake up to a shoutout from the legendary Dennis Cooper! Huge congrats on the amazing reviews for his new film Room Temperature (just screened in LA!). Grateful for the support, consider donating or sharing too! 🐾🐯 pupandtiger.co.uk/donate #QueerArt #DennisCooper #PupAndTiger

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 28/04/2025

“In terms of my work I see myself as a very radical formalist.” - Nayland Blake #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #NaylandBlake @naylandblake

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 18/04/2025

“I think about that space when using expired stock of knowing that images might not appear and choosing the subject, I like that tendency toward the precarious and disappearing, about holding on and letting go.” - Alexander Hetherington #ContemporaryArt #AlexanderHetherington

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 17/04/2025

“We know ourselves in relation to others, in our similarities and differences to others.“ - Christina Quarles #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #ChristinaQuarles

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 14/04/2025

“Yes, those are images that at times collectively we become desensitized to, but those are not the images I’m addressing. I’m addressing those images that are hard to see.” - Sable Elyse Smith #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #SableElyseSmith

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 13/04/2025

“Mottos are excess commitments that I don’t believe in.” - Richard Kilroy #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #RichardKilroy @richardkilroy.bsky.social

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 11/04/2025

“This unpredictability allows for intimacy in the way that the work unfolds; their relations and affects leak out into the room” - Alex Baczynski-Jenkins #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #AlexBaczynski-Jenkins

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 09/04/2025

Excited to see the new UCA degree show. Always like this time of year. Please share: #UCA #Canterbury #ContemporaryArt #degreeshow #universityforthecreativearts

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 09/04/2025

Looking at David Wojtowycz's work. The landscape... is a sentient one. The exhibition most obviously draws inspiration from Stanislaw Lem’s novel ‘Solaris’ Indeed, the first work we encounter is a film by David Wojtowycz that depicts a familiar yet alien. #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 07/04/2025

“They're all freaks. Outsiders, untouchables. They’re like biographies, the kind of people you’d like to know about. Really interesting and fucked-up.” - Greer Lankton #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #GreerLankton

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 04/04/2025

“I was a punk and a mod, so I’m really into style as a marker of politics and outsiderness, and as a way of flagging and signaling different things.” - K8 Hardy #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #K8Hardy @k8hardy.bsky.social

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 02/04/2025

“I think absurdity does something more powerful than empowerment.” - Jes Fan #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #JesFan

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 31/03/2025

“I remember reading on a piece of paper in Octavia Butler's archives 'the more personal, the more universal' and that's really a cornerstone of my practice.” - Sin Wai Kin #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #SinWaiKin #OctaviaButler @sinwaikin.bsky.social

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 28/03/2025

Seems timely - “I think that speech can be objectified in the same way that artworks and images can be objectified.” - Nikita Gale #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #NikitaGale

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 27/03/2025

“I created a black-and-white line-drawn façade of a classical museum and also created a wallpaper that included even more history not represented as physical objects in the space.” - Chris E. Vargas #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #ChrisEVargas @chrisevargas.bsky.social

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 26/03/2025

It's #AgnesMartin Day: "My formats are square, but the grids never are absolutely square; they are rectangles, a little bit off the square, making a sort of contradiction, a dissonance, though I didn't set out to do it that way -Agnes Martin #QueerArt #ContemporaryArt

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 26/03/2025

"We must surrender the idea that this perfection that we see in the mind or before our eyes is obtainable or attainable. It is really far from us. We are no more capable of having it than the infant that tries to eat it. But our happiness lies in our moments of awareness of it." -#AgnesMartin

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 26/03/2025

Continuing from a thread yesterday! Looking at Agnes Martin's writings and putting here: "Just going on with almost no memory of having done anything." -Agnes Martin #QueerArt #ContemporaryArt #AgnesMartin @camlette.bsky.social @jpb.bsky.social @jyriv.bsky.social @sallyclarkestudio.bsky.social

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 25/03/2025

“I think about what happens when you bring disparate elements together - about serendipity” - Alexander Hetherington #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #AlexanderHetherington @alex_hetherington_film

This is four film stills from Alexander Hetherington that each show abstract like and are painterly looking.

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 24/03/2025

"To think about ‘oblivion’ is to think about ‘what art is’.” - Yasumasa Morimura #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #YasumasaMorimura

The artist poses in self portrait reenacting the famous image of Marcel Duchamp as his persona Rrose Sélavy. The artist wears two stacked hats and has on a fur coat while also holding a set of mannequin hands as a recreation reference to Duchamp’s image.

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 18/03/2025

"How come men in the museums make a painting, and then sign their name at the bottom, and when a woman makes any kind of craft, her name is not associated with it 99% of the time?” - Maya Hayuk #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #MayaHayuk

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 17/03/2025

“If you get to experience being in the midst of the moment of creation, of exceeding what you thought was possible for yourself, you’ve already won. That's what we should be in the game for. That’s what’s really at stake in the life of an artist.” #NaylandBlake #QueerArt @naylandblake.bsky.social

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 14/03/2025

One more from Carl Freedman yesterday where caught Gate of Horns in Margate. #margate #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #CarlFreedman

People walking around looking at the exhibition Gate of Horns at Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate.

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 14/03/2025

Wandered around Carl Freedman in Margate yesterday and caught Gate of Horns. #margate #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #CarlFreedman

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 13/03/2025

“Connecting is, for us, one of the most gratifying elements of working collaboratively and definitely one of the reasons to do it.” - assume vivid astro focus #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #avaf

This is a brightly coloured image by the collaborative group Assume Vivid Astro Focus where two male figures kiss amid a collage of pixelated, floral, and amorphous shapes.

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 13/03/2025

More from the exhibition Resistance at Turner Contemporary today conceived by Steve McQueen and wandered around Margate a bit. #turnercontemporary #margate #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt

In the early 1970s, Gay Liberation Front activists staged provocative 'kiss-ins' in public spaces across London, challenging social taboos. These demonstrations of same-sex affection in places like Trafalgar Square and London Underground stations were both political protests and joyful celebrations. The photographs capture moments of defiant intimacy amid hostile or startled onlookers. documenting a time when public displays of LBGTQ+ affection could result in arrest or violence. These actions formed part of the Gay Liberation Front's broader strategy of confronting homophobia through direct action, combining radical politics with personal liberation and the power of collective resistance.

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 13/03/2025

Saw the exhibition Resistance at Turner Contemporary today conceived by Steve McQueen and wandered around Margate a bit. #turnercontemporary #margate #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt

Wall text from Resistance: Steve McQueen

From the suffragettes marching through London's streets to the mass protest against the Iraq War, photographers chronicled how ordinary people fought for progress between 1903 and 2003.

Through powerful images by celebrated and unknown photographers, we encounter pivotal
moments that defined modern Britain, including the Blind March of 1920, fighting fascism at the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, Greenham
Commons Peace Camp (1981-2000), and the Black People's Day of Action following the New Cross house fire in 1981. At the same time, we trace how advances in camera technology allowed photographers to capture moments with a newfound freedom, immediacy, and subjectivity, transforming how they were communicated to the wider public.

These photographs taken before smartphones
and the mass uptake of social media, reveal how movements for workers rights, racial equality, environmental protection, and LGBTO+ liberation, among countless others, intersected and evolved.

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 12/03/2025

“I suspect that the meaning of life is connected with the ways in which we learn and convey knowledge.” Pete Hocking #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #PeteHocking @petehocking.bsky.social

This is a painting done primarily in earth tones by the artist Pete Hocking portraying two long haired men with bush beards. One looks off to the left and the other looks toward the viewer and is drinking from a coffee mug.

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 11/03/2025

“I wanted to create the feeling that not only the story but the material itself might fall apart at any moment.” Lyra Hill #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #LyraHill

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 10/03/2025

“I see my own work as the snail trail of the journey. Objects are residue. Their meaning tends to grow and become richer as more objects are made.” - Nayland Blake #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #NaylandBlake @naylandblake.bsky.social

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 07/03/2025

Help: putting together a list of queer art spaces and networks (as well as amazing artists) to pay attention to as a resource. If you know some send them our way and gold star if they’re on here as well? Appreciate a shout out too! #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #ArtCommunity #ArtForChange

An image from the artist Wynne Greenwood for the exhibition Maps to Radical Imagining that depicts a pixelated image of Gloria Steinem in sunglasses on a white background. There are elements of roadmaps as well as blotchy shapes like organs. It includes text like optic nerves, pupil, retina, and you are here.

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 07/03/2025

"Real is a contentious word. What can be considered real and or verified does not necessarily mean that it is recognized or acknowledged on a micro or macro level. There are many different ways to interrogate or locate a subject." Lorna Simpson #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #LornaSimpson

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Pup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 06/03/2025

“To be able to bring light into a ‘contained’ space always feels otherworldly. It’s magic, hypnosis, rapture, worship.”- assume vivid astro focus #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ContemporaryArt #avaf

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