Mauro Cocilio

Mauro Cocilio is a portrait, documentary and fashion photographer whose images have featured in The Independent Magazine, I-D, Dazed & Confused, Modern Painters, Time Out, Creative Review, Source and multimedia site Showstudio.

During Transfabulous he is showing a selection of portraits of transexuals and transvestites taken in the London club scene: Ron Storme Club Extraordinaire, Way Out Club and Ted`s Place).

website : Mauro's website

Jayne County

Photo by Jamie Mcleod

U.S based renowned Queen of Punk, legendary Stonewall veteran and memoirist (Man Enough to Be A Woman, Jayne County & Rupert Smith,1995,Serpents Tail); is known for her innovative performance art, and a career in theatre, film and music. Jayne always way ahead of the times is now recognised as highly influential in the post punk Queercore movement. Jayne is also a prolific painter. Jayne's website

Bobbie Jones

Hereford based freelance designer/illustrator and a Senior Lecturer in Design. Bobbie has taught for many years in Arts Schools in both the UK and overseas including an extended period in Papua New Guinea. Bobbie has exhibited widely, prospected for gold, sailed boats, studied acupuncture, renovated ruins and travelled extensively.

“For me the most productive creative moments result from solving problems… Gender identity has somehow urged me to produce a quantity of related creative work”.

Lucas McKenna

A seamster by trade, happy to spend days sewing both at work and play. Lucas’s first creative project with Transfabulous involved making a large rude prop, then thankfully developed into more 'tasteful!' pieces, including the Transfabulous and Transgender Day of Remembrance banners. Exhibiting a new life affirming appliqué in Transfabulous II Group Show.

Sachi‘scratch’ Nehra

Photo by Alex Hopps

Sachi 'scratch' Nehra (on right, with Jin Haritaworn), exploring identity and body image through the lens. A series of photographs. 

Scratch is a visual artist, art project coordinator, DJ and queer activist.

Mandy Romero

Mandy Romero began her Live Art career at Liverpool's 2002 Biennial in a performance piece produced by Guillermo Gomez-Pena. Previous to that she had begun performing on the first of her "Dragging Round the World" circumnavigations of the globe. In 2003 she was one of three Associate Artists in Live Art at the Liverpool Bluecoat Arts Centre where, amongst a number of works created, she premiered the "live" version of her transgender epic "The Mandayana". After the second of her global tours in 2004 she was given a Fellowship in Live Art by the Arts Council to spend two months in residence at the Cable Factory in Helsinki. In 2005 she extended her involvement with the Liverpool Tate through a number of gallery-based performances and trained in Improvisation with Andrew Morrish the Australian dancer/improviser in Amsterdam. Most recently seen in cabaret on The Fitzcarraldo in Liverpool's docks Mandy has a website which tells more of her performing life:

Mandy's website

For the Liverpool 2004 Biennial Mandy took on the mantle of Liverpool Queen Of Culture, and in the summer of 2006, commissioned as part of the Liverpool Culture Company’s “City In Transition” Programme, she produced “the Great Make-Over”, a published art-work in a limited edition distributed through the city’s major arts venues which drew visual and poetic material from the idea of “make-over” to comment on the changes in the city