Biff, a white person in their 30s, with brownish short hair is smiling at the viewer. They are wearing a shiny burnt orange jacket and shirt, standing in shadow against a red sandstone wall.
photo by Kat Gollock
Hi. I’m Biff. I’m a neuroqueer*, slow, anticapitalist human living in Leith.
I delight in blustery beaches, dandelions peeking through concrete and dancing until the the sun rise.
My interdisciplinary practice spans drag, clown, voice, play, performance making, facilitation and access support.
I have over 15 years experience collaborating with learning disabled, neurodivergent and disabled artists in a multitude of ways, in their creative processes. This work began in Janice Parkers award winning Private Dancer. Some times this work is quiet 1:1 support with an artist sometimes it’s facilitating creative workshops, sometimes its access coordinator for Sanctuary Queer Arts cabarets.
As a performer I was in a trans and gender queer ensemble, exploring writing by Nelly Kelly supported by Queen Jesus Productions
With Lung Ha artists I have co created the Creative Space programme, developing artist-led ways of exploring their creative practice online.
I am an experienced facilitator committed to co-creating spaces where different ways of being can exist together. I have facilitated drag workshops for Shutup and King , created performance with Garvald Edinburgh and Anatomy, co created play spaces for independent Arts projects and more.
I am one half of the anarchic drag-clown duo Oasissy, named “one’s to watch” by The List.
I love to make DIY drag and clown work and have devised, hosted and programmed queer cabarets on shoe string budgets at Edinburgh Fringe for the Gilded Balloon/Paradise Palms and the Blundagardens. I have made work for Dive Queer Party, Clown Cabaret Scotland, Surge and more.
I have an undergraduate qualification in Community Arts (specialising in drama and dance) and a post graduate diploma in Physical Theatre from Adam Smith College where I trained in clown with Al Seed.
I am passionate about pleasure, play and neuro-queering spaces by and with dissenters and deliciously deviant performers.
I was a member of Independent Arts Projects Sensory Collective, a 22 month project for those excluded from mainstream arts activity.
I have collaborated with Luke Pell and collaborators, Janice Parker and friends, Annabel Cooper, Lars Neupert, Surge, Melanie Jordan, Lou Brodie, Frankie Mullholland, Max Alexander, Nelly Kelly, Sanctuary Queer Arts, Queen Jesus Productions, Surge, Birds of Paradise, Garvald Edinburgh, Amanda Noble, Anatomy, Craig Simpson, Independent Arts Projects, Ivor Macaskill, Dive Queer Party, Queer Theory and more.
*Engaging in practices intended to undo and subvert one’s own cultural conditioning and one’s ingrained habits of neuronormative and heteronormative performance, with the aim of reclaiming one’s capacity to give more full expression to one’s uniquely weird potentials and inclinations. - Nik Walker PHD
