frank r jagoe Author

frank r. jagoe (formerly Rebecca Jagoe) is an autistic artist who works across text, performance and sculpture. Their work examines how experiences of illness, madness, and gender are informed by specific Western, imperialist narratives around the ‘human’, and its relationship to language, monstrosity, and animality. This often manifests as dialogues with other-than-humans: the ocean, a mirror, a catfish, a blue plastic arm, a deep-sea anglerfish. Jagoe’s work has been published in The Happy Hypocrite, Hotel, EROS Journal, and Artes Mundi Journal, among others. With Sharon Kivland they have edited two anthologies, ON VIOLENCE (2018) and ON CARE (2020), published by MA BIBLIOTHÉQUE. They were a Wales in Venice 10 Fellow 2022–23 and part of the Freelands Fellowship 2021–22. They have recently shown work at Chapter, Cardiff (2024), g39, Cardiff, and Site Gallery, Sheffield (all 2023), the Drawing Room, London, Mostyn, EKKM, Tallinn, and Kim?, Riga (all 2021), and Wysing Arts Centre and CCA Goldsmiths (2020).

They are currently based in London.