Joanna Quail
Joanna Quail
Joanna Quail is a composer and cellist who loves to take the cello and its stunning repertoire to a wide audience. She performs concerts on a regular basis for private events and corporate functions and performed at the 2010 Night of the Senses in the Sensuality Chamber. She will be opening our show Chantilly Lace on 30th March 2011. Jo is currently recording and will be touring a solo album. Her gig dates are listed on www.joquail.co.uk, where you can also purchase her music.
Fosit
Fosit
Born on a riverbank in Jamaica, Fosit became a darling of the music industry in Birmingham in the 90′s, working alongside Shroom, creating unique environments. When he arrived in London, Fosit took over a bathroom at a Sexual Freedom Coalition Arcadia party and transformed it into a sensual paradise. Since then, we have never let him go.
It may be that his humble start in life provided Fosit with the inspiration to create stunning effect out of almost nothing at all. His room at the Ball, called Café Shebeen, is the only space where anything and everything takes place side-by-side, and this works only because of Fosit’s spirit and passion, his art.
Court-jester, DJ, agitator, designer, prankster and naïve soul, Fosit’s room is a magical place at the Ball, a place that no other club ever manages to replicate. His obsession with orbs, his brilliance with lighting, and his funky, non-judgemental humour transforms his space from ordinary to charm and sexual charisma.
Mouse
Mouse
Multi-talented performance and visual artist who claims “I go to art galleries like other people go to church”. As well as being a writer, life model, pop star and film maker, Mouse graces the Night of the Senses each year with the messiest and most extraordinary cabaret act in the world. It’s Carry-On, Hardcore Art, involving sparklers up the bum, eggs, cakes with candles and copious amounts of soapy water being sprayed like a Catherine-wheel, far and wide. Mouse gives 190%, risking life, limb, liver and all sensitive parts.
Mouse has become recognised in the underground art world — she performed with Matthew Barney and Ron Athey in Matthew’s show in LA — but she has not yet gained anywhere near the respect she deserves. She is, after all, a classy one-off, ego-less good-egg, and you can’t say that about many British stars these days.
www.carryonmouse.co.uk
[email protected]
077958 575 163
Spiral
Spiral
Spiral provides the Night of the Senses with the imagery for our publicity. We feel honoured. His the images are, he tells the world, his muse, “who is the canvas on which I hang my feelings, thoughts, fears and desires.” In turn, they are canvas which inspires our Ball theme.
Spiral is a very successful artist who lives in Devon. His other clients are Pretty Polly and Horlicks who thankfully pay him. You can see more of his work on http://athomeinspace.com/
Ashley Savage
Ashley Savage
A photographer whose portfolio has been described as “a celebration of otherness” by virtue of its exploration of issues such as gender, sexuality, disability, body modification and contemporary fetishism.
Ashley has photographed our events since 1998 and is now in his third year as a judge. As a trained counsellor he is especially interested in the therapeutic use of photography and is currently focusing on several projects: one, entitled, “Bodies Of Difference” aimed at challenging perceptions of disability and sexuality, whilst another project, “Cancer Sucks” documents performance artist, Tutu, and her fight to overcome breast cancer. www.savageskin.co.uk
Prangstsa
Prangsta Costumiers
Melanie Wilson founded Prangsta Costumiers in 1998 to rally against the waste that she saw in the fashion industry, by collecting discarded vintage garments and recycling them into new creations.
Prangsta creates bespoke costumes and keeps a costume collection for hire. They were voted Fashions Designers of the Year 2010 and since then pledged to work with us to show off their spectacular outfits.
Melanie passes on her expertise to students in Dressmaking & Tailoring classes in her design studio in Deptford. Prangsta’s mobile Burlesque Boudoir tours festival locations throughout the summer and winter private functions.
Between the Sheets
Between the Sheets
Between the Sheets have been making beautiful tactile, sexy bed linen since 1992. Pure Silk, Satin, Latex, Leather and PU all feature in their ranges and can add new sensual delights to your Boudoir!
From Sumptous Comforters in Velvet to the delights of complete bed sets in the finest Latex and Leather – All the Bed Linen is handcrafted in darkest Wiltshire by Jane Allen and her team. They strive to create wonderful hand crafted bed linen in all the unusual fabrics you just can’t find elsewhere, and they make for all sizes and shapes of beds. So the only limits are in your imagination!
Holly Revell
Holly Revell
DARKROOM presents photography as present, a live experience as opposed to a document of the past. It is about slowing down the photographic process. Using long exposures and light painting techniques with torches in a dark space, participants are invited to make a single image. DARKROOM plays upon the language of photography and flirts with the concept of nightclub darkrooms! Guests are invited to get as dressed up or undressed as they like… and are encouraged to play within the space…
Katie Sarra
Katie Sarra
Katie Sarra expresses her joy of love, life and sexuality through oils, performance, tantric teaching and her own grand exuberance. She won Artist of the Year 2008 in the Erotic Awards and has ever since come to the Erotic Awards semi-finals and Night of the Senses to bring us a amazing bundle of arty fun. Katie is a fine artist also qualified in art therapy.
Katie creates a painting of the Erotic Awards striptease and performance art show, which is auctioned at the end for charity. The painting is always vibrant mass of sex and colour. Katie has co-presented the show with Mat Fraser, which involved quite a bit of spanking. Katie joined in a spectacularly triumphant, glorious group piss on a fetishist in our garden’s Golden Pond. She led an interactive stage show ending in a pretty May Pole Dance. This year, she is painting guests’ fantasies as well as baring all in a unique striptease act.
07540 571 745 or email [email protected]
Raree Girls
Raree Girls
Raree Girls (rair-ee, ‘a peepshow, an unusual or amazing show or spectacle’) are two performance / striptease artists, Joy and Solitaire, who play with flirtation and decadence to offer bespoke erotic entertainment. Both gave up conventional careers to do what they now do best, and take enormous pride in performing with their bodies in a way which makes the viewer swoon and marvel. They have evolved from being Erotic Awards winners and finalists to regular fundraisers at Erotic Awards events, Solitaire with her diamond butt plug and Joy in her tailored striptease suit. They also raise the most money for charity at the Night of the Senses with their singles-and-couples lapdance booth. “It was better than sex!” was one comment overheard by couples in the queue as a man left, knees a-quivering.
In 2009, Solitaire performed an elegant striptease at the Royal Society of Medicine conference on sex work and disability for a deaf-blind man, whose translator gave the audience a verbal translation of his finger alphabet interpretation. The audience were moved to tears. Raree Girls are invited to residential homes for disabled people, as well as posh private parties around London and hold their own events for fans. They have created a new art form and long may it blossom.
Visit www.RareeGirls.com to find out more.
toonloon
toonloon
Designed and provided the Night of the Senses with this website.
Tony Loan is a very successful artist/designer who lives in Wiltshire. His other clients range from 3M to Salif Keita who thankfully pay him. Here are some examples of his video production and photography.
Chris Tofu
Chris Tofu
DJ Tofu comes from a legendary past of DJing in fields and under canvas. His records come with the dust of a thousand mad all-night magic festivals…..spinningeclectic toons from electro swing, Balkan soundclash, ska, polka stomp, flamenco hip ho, casino remix and belly dancing breakbeat.
Mandi Peers
Mandi Peers ~ founding member of Mouseonthetelly VJ collective
Mandi is involved with Outsiders on many levels, including writing for Inside magazine. She has been a regular guest at the Night of the Senses, always enjoying herself, and has now been asked to play as a VJ.
Being a full-time wheelchair user, Mandi can find it difficult to get into gigs, because of lack of access. She has, however, worked successfully with live bands or DJ’s, playing live visuals – totally twisted, funny, silly, and sexy movie clips – in response to the music, crowd, and the general vibe. Mouseonthetelly VJ collective is my partner in crime Mr G, myself, and various other renegade individuals.
She looks forward to entertaining you there.
For more details please go to
www.mouseonthetelly.com
www.myspace.com/mouseonthetelly