All The Same

Artist Statement

Artemis Hatfield is a multidisciplinary artist working in the United Kingdom. She has a conceptual practice with a post-medium approach to the way they create their artworks. Hatfield’s work is informed by her experiences as a queer and trans person, and she aims to help inform audiences about various facets of queerness, from the personal to political.

Through her recent projects, “The Transgender Puppet Variety Show”, “The dove returned with a knife instead.” and “Rough Surf / Soft Fabric,” Hatfield explores and examines different elements of queer and transgender experiences. Hatfield’s accessible approach to their work allows for people who are less knowledgeable and experienced with these topics to engage and learn from it, as well as still being able to relate to the artwork. They are inspired by both current and historical activist movements, and subscribe to an intersectional approach to activism and the fight for equality.

Hatfield also works in education part time, is a freelance designer, and runs independent arts press Delos Publishing alongside her practice.

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Education

BA (Hons) Photography, First Class
Arts University Bournemouth

Publications

Anarkiss Zine
The Transgender Puppet Variety Show Magazine
We Resist
Dieu et mon Driot(s)
Pretence Magazine

For publications edited & published by Artemis Hatfield, see Delos Publishing

Exhibitions

Aberrations
Copeland Gallery, London
2025

AUB Summer Show
AUB, Bournemouth
2025

LGBTQ+ Art
The Bournemouth Underground Gallery (BUG), Bournemouth
2025

Aberrations Collective
BEAF Arts Co, Bournemouth
2025

Mental Health in Art
DPC, London
2024

Aberrations Collective
Bournemouth
2024

The Big Art Show
The Art Department, Glasgow
2023

Press

Fluffy Friends with a Fierce Message

Holly Likes Puppets
2025

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Designer

Publisher

Medium:
Collage

Date:
2024

During their election campaign, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party promised new protections for the transgender+ community, stating their proposals for a reformed Gender Recognition Process would “remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance”.

Following this, the party completely reversed on this promise and others, members of the cabinet openly mocked and denied the validity of transgender identities, and the party pushed forward the Conservatives past efforts to restrict and deny transgender people access to gender-affirming healthcare; a right solidified in the 2004 Gender Recognition Act and - arguably - the Human Rights Act (1998).

This piece features portraits of various contemporary and historical political figures whose words and actions in their positions of power and influence have caused significant harm to members of the LGBTQ+ Community.

From infamous figures like Thatcher, from whom Section 28 cost livelihoods, growing acceptance, and education about LGBTQ+ lives, to David Cameron who voted in opposition to same-sex marriage and defended said decision until elected as PM, to the more recent and fast-paced slew of Conservative PMs who repeated failed to offer protection against so-called Conversion Therapy, and of course Starmer and Streeting from the current cabinet, whose backtracking and transphobic policymaking is harming more and more queer people every day.

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