Stiofan O’Ceallaigh is a multimedia artist and curator born in Ireland. Currently exhibiting between the USA and Europe, O’Ceallaigh’s focus is an exploration of the understanding of a queer aesthetic, if indeed, there is one. A personal journey and an acknowledgement of flux, O’Ceallaigh’s work seeks to emancipate those who know it, by promoting discourse around areas such as HIV, censorship, mental health, biography, (be)longing, (in)visibility, (im)possibilities, internalised shame/stigma>pride, and fundamentally… an effort to reduce hate in all its forms. In 2016 he established the Queer art project called Balaclava.Q, a not-for-profit which strategically functions to connect, promote and create platforms for LGBTQ+ artists globally by devising and producing curatorial projects.