About
John Post is an artist, scientist, and educator whose work explores queer identity, embodiment, and digital intimacy. With a background in zoology and over twenty years in biological research, he bridges scientific inquiry with poetic, experimental photography. Using both digital and analogue processes, he examines how the male body, desire, and selfhood are mediated through screens, gestures, and the gaze. His doctoral research at Ulster University focused on the photograph as an affective surface where meaning accumulates and dissolves, engaging queer male participants in a collaborative exploration of empathy, banality, and self-representation
Post’s work has been exhibited across the UK, including with Belfast Exposed, the Scottish Arts Club, Getty Images, and had work in the RPS’s IPE 163. A former picture editor working in media, he has also taught on art courses at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and Belfast School of Art, supporting interdisciplinary creative practices across undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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Solo Exhibition: Cruising for Another Picture | University of Dundee | January - February 2025
Group Exhibition: World AIDS Day Exhibition | University of Edinburgh | December 2024 - January 2025
Group Exhibition: Inter/pose | University of St Andrew’s and Terrence Higgins Trust | St Andrew’s | 2024
Conference: Festival of PhD Research at Ulster University | Belfast | 2024
Publication: Snowflake Magazine | Cruising for Another Picture | London | 2023
Conference: The Fourteenth International Conference on The Image | Poster Presentation | Zaragoza | 2023
Group Exhibition: Queer Joy | Gay Times, Getty Images, Queer Britain, and Skittles | King’s Cross | 2023
Publication: GayTimes Magazine | Queer Joy: a look inside Edinburgh’s Kafe Kweer | 2023
Conference: Inaugural LGBTQ+ Research at Ulster | Speaker | Belfast | 2023
Training: PhotoVoice Online Comprehensive Training | London | 2023
Commission/ Publication: Drug Discovery Unit Annual Report 2023 | University of Dundee
Group Exhibition: Stoggafco: Queer Exhibition | London | 2022.
Conference: Photo Ireland Think Tank: Photography as an act of empathy | Speaker | Dublin | 2022
Group Exhibition: Scottish Portrait Awards; finalist in Fine Art exhibition. Edinburgh/Glasgow | 2021
Publication: Pupil Sphere Graduate Showcase | From the Inside of the Edge | Leeds | 2021
Group Exhibition: Royal Photographic Society IPE 163 | From the Inside of the Edge | Bristol | 2021
Group Exhibition: A Lightness of Touch | Belfast Exposed | Belfast | 2021
Group Exhibition: British Photography Awards | London | 2021
Group Exhibition: Glasgow University’s Queer Arts Festival | Glasgow | 2021
Commission/ Publication/ Talk: Peat Caretakers for Natural England and the University of Newcastle. Reed MS, et al. (2020) Social barriers and opportunities to the implementation of the England Peat Strategy. Final Report to Natural England and Defra, Newcastle University, UK, 2020.
Group Exhibition: Transitions | Lifespace Gallery, Dundee | 2020
Award/ Group Exhibition: Scottish Portrait Awards | Commendation Award for Lou Moon | Edinburgh/ Glasgow/ Kirkcudbright, 2019.