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A multidisciplinary artist whose work explores a wide variety of subjects including power structures, anti-capitalism, gender and sexuality, deeply critiquing the often shallow and cruel nature of the  mainstream gay scene and the oppression of binary gender roles. Born in Blackpool and based in Manchester, David's work over the last 35+ years has merged working class variety, pub and club and drag performance, with elements of avant-garde performance art and visual art, incorporating rapid live painting into his stage shows.  In 2017, Holly Revell published a limited edition book entitled 'David Hoyle: Parallel Universe', spanning an intimate eight-year collaboration between the two which resulted in more than 300 extraordinary images of David backstage and on stage and over 25 unique artworks created by David especially for the book. 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The process involved the camera being set up on a tripod and locked open on a bulb setting for the time it took the artist to be lit in drag, take it all off in the dark and lit again in a different position once the drag was removed.\r\nDavid’s image took the longest, over 20 minutes and was done at Contact Theatre in Manchester in the adjoining bathroom to the dressing room where he changed, in his words “from prawn cocktail to ready-salted”. We had to move up a corridor from the bathroom to the dressing room and back while the camera shutter remained open, which David found quite confusing and we got into a deep and meaningful chat while he was taking off the drag and I was worrying about the exposure time. The magic of photography never fails to surprise me!'."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"drag","id":"x33812"},{"text":"bathrooms","id":"AAT4197"},{"text":"cosmetics","id":"AAT236306"},{"text":"shower","id":"AAT203998"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.1175-2023"],"accessionNumberNum":"1175","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2023,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2023-06-09","availableToBook":false}}