Pradeep Mahadeshwar
Pradeep Mahadeshwar is a visual artist and LGBTQ+ activist originally from India and now an Irish citizen. He/They graduated from the Government Institute of Printing Technology, Mumbai, in 1996 and the Buckinghamshire New University’s MA Printmaking with distinction in 2011. Mahadeshwar’s work explores identities through the collection of stories, illustrations based on surreal-looking satires of sexual racism and meditative surreal moving images to fantasise alternative emotional landscapes with infinite new possibilities. Through his/their artwork, he/they are researching the effects of sexual racism on the mental and sexual health of Queer People of Colour living in Ireland.