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Name: Adam Castle

School: Acland Burghley School

Town: London

County: London

Year: Year 13

Inspiration: My work investigates the ideas of queer theory and questions society’s traditional ideas of gender and sexuality. Inspired by the work of artists such as Cindy Sherman and Leigh Bowery, I enjoy using performative elements in my work, from live and physical pieces in front of an audience, to perfomative photography using costume. I am interested in how the objects which we surround ourselves with, the clothes we wear and our day to day actions contribute to how we are percieved, our sense of identity and how these identities can be subverted.

Title: The Wedding, Part 2

Description: Having found my parents’ wedding clothes and examined their significance in isolation in ‘The Wedding, Part 1’, I further explored the idea of marriage by dressing up in my parents wedding clothes in this performative photo. I recreated an original photo of my parent’s wedding where, with Photoshop manipulation, it appears that I am ‘marrying myself’. This unsettling image questions the role of gender and sexuality both in the institution of marriage and society as a whole. My identity in this image is a blur of male and female, father and mother, son and daughter, straight, gay and queer. This work examines, pushs and tests the boundaries and categories which are arise from marriage, whilst also exploring my own identity and heritage.

Medium: Photography

Width: 845 Height: 290

Keywords: marriage, gender, sexuality, tradition, ritual, heritage, identity