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John Monteith is a multidisciplinary artist whose abstract practice explores forms of queer representation beyond figuration through questions of space, place, materiality, and identity. His work is informed by urban architectural histories, spaces shaped by queer communities, and the gendered material traditions of twentieth-century art and craft. Through an ongoing engagement with the built environment, Monteith reflects on sites where queerness has been lived publicly—places where difference is embraced and community formed.

Bringing together architecture and abstraction, disciplines historically associated with masculine modes of production, Monteith’s work incorporates feminized and queer material practices rooted in care, repair, and making. His layered approach reveals how identity, memory, and collective experience become embedded within the spaces we inhabit, creating alternative narratives of belonging and visibility.

Monteith is currently based between London and Berlin. During the 2026–27 academic year, he is undertaking an MRes at the Royal College of Art, London, where he continues his research into queer abstraction, urban memory, and material practice.