Photograph: © JP Bichard

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Bichard has worked for the past 3 decades as an artist, filmmaker and photogrpaher. Eternally restless and with a passion for creating and working across a range of artistic contexts, they see media as a fluid palette that allows for new ways of storytelling. Influences range from Baroque portraiture to video game tropes and environments to early Russian film and contemporary dance.

A gender queer, feminist ally who works at questioning societal and personal constructs, unpicking patriarchal norms and exploring at the edges of culture: redefining narrative contexts and gender gradients in mass media.
They explore the margins: the people and places that cross boundaries, that live in the cracks between seemingly secure notions of existence, the fluid area between states of uncertainty: gender, sanity, physicality. Over the years, these musings have drifted into discrete themes: violence as narrative, self-identification, the construction of exquisite alter egos, and the ways in which narrative is shifted by context.

Bichard is currently living and working in Stockholm Sweden. They have work in numerous public and private art collections internationally including MOMA New York, V&A and Tate in London and CAM in Tampa…
Bichard collaborates with his wife the jazz singer and performer Fräulein Frauke. The duo have built a reputation for extraordinary photographic artworks and extravagant Burlesque events through their brand ‘Bichard Studios’. For over a decade, they have run Sweden’s top burlesque and Cabaret club, the internationally renowned ‘Fräulein Frauke Presents‘ and the International Stockholm Burlesque Festival.

Currently working on two new films: 'Anise Underground' which is being co-produced by Broom Films (Lithuania) and Sisyfos Films (Stockholm) and 'Everyday', a filmic collaboration with the renowned Choreograper and filmmaker Helena Jonsdottir in Ant

Awards & Achievements: I have artworks in MOMA NYC, CAM Tampa, Tate Gallery and the V&A London and have a long history of exhibiting unusual works internationally. My work suits at the edges of genres so my installation work has been a mash-up of police forensic spaces, film and video-gaming and current work is exploring the relationship of dance and film. I usually avoid award events but have been awarded for my burlesque photography (!)
I was one of the first people to exhibit photography taken within a video game (in a show with Martin Parr and Richard Billingham amongst others). Currently working on my next film with production companies in Stockholm and Vilnius (a queer experimental short).