Trans Rage: Resistance!

4 VENUES. 40 DAYS. 70+ WORKS. COME AND SEE THE TRANS RAGE EXHIBITION, PART 1: RESISTANCE! About This is the first part of a 4 venue exhibition series taking place across London. The art at London art bar explores the theme of resistance within the trans community. The opening will also informal feature screenings of films by trans+ artists and a performance piece by Chloe May Adams at 7.30pm. The last few years have seen an increase in violence and anger towards the trans+ community as the community continues to be used as a political talking point, without talking to the trans + community. The aim of R.A.G.E is to make a space underrepresented voices and put their experiences at the front of the “debate”. Empathy and community are at the forefront of our activism. Resistance at London art bar brings together a series of at works brings a new meaning to what resistance looks like as a queer person. Combining rage and resistance is an intentionally confrontational exploration of the trans + experience, because being trans + is fully of daily moments of rage and resistance. We want to validate that political rage, and show people what the over politicisation of the trans + community has done to the trans+ community. Fox Fisher was commissioned by R.A.G.E this year to make the poster, after being featured in the trans rage exhibition series since its first show. The went above and beyond and not only designed a digital poster but made their own screen printed version which will be shown across the exhibition series. Resistance as a discriminated group at is core is continuing to exist and be authentic to yourself. Artists such Sam McCracken really embody this idea in their series Sounds of Silence: Joy of Solitude . Bo Myers’s also explores this in their confrontational protest piece exist to resist. Intersectionality also plays a central role in this show with works such as Afon Thomas’ series of work see/hear/speak. Afon Thomas is a disabled trans artist who is unapologetic in their worK, they started making visual art when words alone did not feel empowering enough. Similarly Ambrosia Bajtek work ground their work in the ongoing bathroom debate. They tie together the intimacy between their personal experiences together and political policy and draws the link between the two to ground politics in the human experience. There are moments of humour and lightness in this show too. Like Arthru’s boy toy and George Lee’s hot trans summer series. If existence is resistance then joy is also resistance. The series features a sticker project that was a collaborative project with their best friend. Its built on the idea that trans “journeys are beautiful. There’s no ‘one way’ to be trans, and all trans+ people deserve a hot trans summer”. This sticker series will take over the whole exhibition and be built into the wider structure of the entire series. The Trans Rage series has always been one that validates political anger but it also gives space for the large scope of human emotions that every human goes through. By sharing playful moments, hard moments, and every other moment you can find the humanity that is missing from the wider trans conversation. This is something also seen in the works of Ted Baribus and Jay Walls as the heart and joy that are expressed in their work speak to how it is better to exist authentically in a world that excludes you than exist in authentically and have to live in your own hurt and pain. To be trans is to be brave. To be authentic is brave. There is over 70 art works that will be displayed across London through November and December. Aside from the Museum of Transology exhibition by the outstanding EJ Scott, this is the biggest collection of trans art that London has seen. It has entirely been organised by Sunny and Lee and their relentless work towards building more space for trans + artists. The entire exhibition is grounded in words of trans and feminist activist Susan Stryker: “Rage colours me as it pressed in through the pores of my skin, soaking in until it becomes the blood that courses through my beating heart. It is a rage bred by the necessity of existing in external circumstances that work against my survival” - Stryker, S. (1994). My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix: Performing transgender rage. The night will also include a casual screening of a series of films from some fantastic trans + storytellers. There will also be a 30 minute performance piece from Chloe May Adams at 7.30-8pm entitled Beat. We are excited to invite you to the opening of the Trans Rage 2026 series. 4 venues. 40 days. 70+ art works. Film / Video Performance / Live Art Prints Painting Sculpture Mixed media