Chester’s work is conceptually led, driven by language and text with outputs in painting, writing, performance, sculpture and print. He is interested in the absurdity and peculiar nature of institutional language, focusing upon cis-heteronormative taxonomies, etymologies and tropes of popular culture. His perspective as a transgender man is important to the work - he sits outside of much institutional language, often due to institutional misrepresentation or lack of visibility. Humour is deployed as a strategy to disarm / challenge this institutional language and hegemony. Chester plays the role of a peripheral trickster, poking fun at institutional authority and invites the audience to join in. Chester Tenneson graduated with an MA in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art in 2004. Recent exhibitions include (Un)Defining Queer, The Whitworth, Manchester; WINK WINK, The Whitaker, Rossendale; Just Browsing, Bluecoat, Liverpool; Queer Art(ists) Now, Space Station Sixty-Five, London. Chester is also a Lecturer in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art, with a focus on Queer pedagogy and student equity.