#junobirch

The Juno Birch collection

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'Growing up as a boy was difficult because I always felt like a girl. My way of escaping was to draw all day, I'd draw pictures of women with big breasts, high heels and long hair. The femininity I lacked I drew out on paper. To this day I still do, my drawing is like my drag.'

- Juno Birch

Juno Birch is a transgender artist that uses her humour to create fun miniature ceramic sculptures, drawings and her own portrait to explore femininity and beauty standards with a twist. Birch would dress like a 50′s housewife alien during secondary school, which she continues to develop through her art and drag persona.

For my own work, I want to create striking and unnatural features, whilst maintaining a feminine aesthetic to my portrait. I want to create my look inspired by Birch’s drag, with the colour complexion, exaggerate and elongated bone structures like cheek bones and fake eyebrows. Birch made a video on her makeup routine with Vogue, which I watched to pick up some tips on how to create my own look.