Edie Urquhart
Dundee-based illustrator and drag artist, creating work with a focus on feminism, storytelling, and queer existence.
About
![A black and white photo of a young woman with long, curly black hair with a short, blunt fringe with a white streak in the left side, pictured against a white backdrop. She wears a distressed black top and a necklace with a large glass cameo pendant. She has slightly raised eyebrows and wears black winged eyeliner.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/content_summary_free_image_webp/public/2022-04/Edie%20Urquhart%20Profile%20Photo.jpeg.webp?itok=L8HCIrOh)
My work is heavily influenced by alternative subcultures and frequently employs a grungy, punk aesthetic. I also have a lifelong and deep-seated love for telling stories and creating characters, and my work as an artist often goes hand in hand with my work as a writer.
Diana La Cazadora
Excerpts from multimedia zine inspired by the Riot Grrrl movement of the 1990s, created in retaliation to the continued prevalence of gender-based violence.
Die Weiße Rose
![A watercolour painting of two pairs of eyes on a dark brown background, one above the other. One pair is closed; the other open and tearful. The words ‘such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go’ are written underneath them in German, in a white serif font.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/student_work_desktop_1440w/public/2022-04/Edie%20Urquhart%20Image%202..jpg?itok=ub9xXmkH)
Excerpts from a 32-page historical picture book based on the true story of The White Rose, a nonviolent student resistance group in Nazi Germany.
A Murder Most Unladylike Cover
Cover design for Robin Stevens' novel 'A Murder Most Unladylike', created for Penguin Books design competition.
Everyday Wintergreen
![A line drawing of a pair of heavily worn boots resting on grass. There are flowers growing on the ground beside them, and sticking up behind them.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/student_work_desktop_1440w/public/2022-04/Edie%20Urquhart%20Image%204.jpg?itok=bmSYfx_Z)
Series of images illustrating 'Everyday Wintergreen' by Elizabeth Reeder, a story inspired by the life of botanist Mary McCallum Webster, written for the Glasgow Women's Library 21 Revolutions project.
Two Slow Dancers
![A black and white comic. First panel: an empty wrestling ring, in a spotlight. Second: a pair of feet wearing half-laced wrestling boots and the third a wall covered in photographs and memorabilia, including several pictures of a woman with blonde hair and a black crop top holding a title belt. Fourth: a close-up of a young woman’s dark brown eyes; the fifth shows the same eyes, except visibly aged, with a scar splitting the left eyebrow. The others show the blonde climbing into a wrestling ring.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/student_work_desktop_1440w/public/2022-04/Edie%20Urquhart%20Image%205.jpg?itok=EBhX8EZE)
Four-page comic inspired by the documentary series 'Dark Side of the Ring' and the song 'Two Slow Dancers' by Mitski, focusing on themes of ageing and addiction as a professional wrestler. Excerpt from zine project 'Parts Unknown', a series of short-form original comics about women's wrestling.
![A woman in a black top with a star on the chest and blonde hair in a wrestling ring. Her teeth are gritted in pain and she reaches out with one hand. Second: the same woman lying in the ring, having just lost a match, and then being helped to her feet by a dark figure. Next: a pair of bare legs with scarred, bruised knees; a bottle of painkillers; and an x-ray of a leg. Then a bottle of vodka next to an ashtray and two bottles of unlabelled medication, and then the same boots only empty.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/student_work_desktop_1440w/public/2022-04/Edie%20Urquhart%20Image%206.jpg?itok=nZzo47Qx)