Guy James Whitworth

Award winning artist Guy James Whitworth brings together all the elements of his creative practice in this, his second book. Enough of Your Nonsense is part heartfelt memoir, part queer archive and part revolutionary manifesto using humour, post-punk ethos, bad fashion choices and melancholy to guide narratives from a troubled childhood in the Industrial North East of England to Sydney's alternative Queer culture.Praise for Guy James Whitworth: A distinctly different and utterly captivating book ... DNA MagazineA creative response to the current world and times ... Star ObserverThis thoroughly original book is a memoir like no other ... The Bookshop Darlinghurst

Signs of a Struggle illustrates the creative journey, from working-class North East England to the current Queer-art scene of Sydney, through the eyes of award-winning artist Guy James Whitworth.Uniquely using the fierce and fabulous LGBTIQ community of Sydney as a visual metaphor, Whitworth contemplates life's challenges and triumphs. With dramatic backdrops including a troubled childhood, 80s London in the midst of the AIDS crisis, and activism for global transformation in the modern world, Signs of a Struggle takes the reader on an intimate, raucous and also poignant journey through survival, queerdom, creativity and inspiration unlike any other.