Artist Bio
Artist–Researcher | Facilitator | Poet | Performance Artist | Karaoke Host & DJ | Intuitive Tarot Reader
2021: Dewar Arts Award Recipient
2024-25: Supporting Act Foundation Creative Bursary Grantee
2025: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Graduate
Bee McQueen is a multidisciplinary performance artist and facilitator working at the intersection of live art, poetry, participatory performance, neuroqueer & crip performance, and socially engaged practice. Their work is rooted in embodiment, intuition, and a commitment to what Johanna Hedva calls “rituals of refusal”—gestures that carve space for the sacred within systems of exhaustion, alienation, and control.
A core concern across Bee’s practice is the exploration of duality—not as conflict, but as a site of transformation. Their projects hold space for:
Forgetting and remembering (Om: I Remember)
Performance and collapse (It’s My House)
Truth and authorship (Machine Meets Metaphor)
Public and private (Waz Here)
Witness and participation (If I Show You Mine…)
Rather than seek resolution, Bee invites audiences into the space between, both in content and form. Their work resists linearity and mastery; favouring cycles, fragmentations, glitches, tangents, and symbolic logic. Bee refers to their neuroqueer methodology as the literal metaphor— an ontological framework for their performance-making process, a compositional strategy for their stage aesthetics, and a political strategy that foregrounds ritual, rupture, and the unseen. Their literal metaphor methodology was discovered over years of recognising a pervasive pattern in their communication. As a person with auDHD, Bee interprets and receives information very very literally. As a poet and deeply philosophical thinker, they give information and express themself metaphorically. Bee understood this dichotomous (albeit harmonious) relationship between input/output or receive/give as a personal transmutation -an instinctive and intrinsic alchemy- and has since developed this as a foundational principle for their performance work.
Bee’s socially engaged practice is just as vital as their performance work. From 1:1 poetry workshops (What is the Stem?) and intuitive/channelled tarot readings to co-created theatre-making & process dramas (The Land of Oz) and their work as a karaoke host & DJ, Bee creates participatory spaces where care, joy, insight, authorship, autonomy, and connection thrive. As a facilitator, Bee draws on pedagogies by Freire, O’Neill, Heathcote, and Rogers—placing trust, presence, and co-creation at the heart of both learning & meaning-making.
Their praxis is influenced by feminist, neuroqueer, crip, and queer theory, posthuman poetics, and a lifelong spiritual inquiry. In all things, Bee’s work asks: what do we choose to carry, and what might we finally lay down?