Through numerous forms of creation, including drawings, paintings, film and performance, Brian Dawn Chalkley questions the performance of gender and identity. Working as two different personalities, Brian and Dawn, they are able to tell stories of obsession, repression, sexual fantasy with bleak humor and great humanity. The multitude of mediums allow Chalkley to fully experiment and explore this concept of “becoming other” as an identity in itself. Born in 1948, Brian Dawn Chalkley lives and works in London as a senior tutor at in the master of fine arts program at Chelsea College of Art and Design. In 1973 Chalkley graduated with a bachelor of arts with honors from Chelsea College of Art, and then went on to graduate with a master of arts from Slade School of Fine Art in 1975. They were an honorary fellow of Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000 and were course leader at Chelsea College of Art and Design from 2005-2016. Chalkley has participated in numerous conferences and lectures in venues such as the Royal College of Art London, Outpost Gallery Norwich, and UAL London, to name a few. They have been the recipient for grants and awards such as the Residency in Taipie UAL award (2017), Research funds for Ancient and Modern Publication (2012), Research grant for book publication “Mother” (2005), 1989 Rome Award in Painting, and John Moores, Liverpool Exhibition 15 (1987), among many others