Defining queer art is difficult, as the term is fluid, mirroring the sexual and gender identities it encompasses - is queer art queer because of the artist, the audience, or even the subject? Dylan Meade has an innate desire to challenge the limitations of the title ‘queer artist’. “In my mind, I don’t like this subscribing to an identity, rather I just like to make work,” he says.
Growing up in Galway as a teenager during the 1990’s, Dylan discovered an interest in “muscular, half-naked men”. Films such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the art of Tom of Finland always caught his eye. “Maybe I was just a really horny kid or maybe I was just naturally drawn to them,” he jokingly comments.