Jock Thomson’s practice refuses the sanitised image of queer life. Working across fine-art photography and printmaking, the Glasgow-based artist turns towards bodies, nightlife, kink and erotic play as sites of beauty, humour, vulnerability and resistance. His series Carnal Delights confronts the stigma surrounding queer sex and kink, celebrating sexuality without shame and asking viewers to recognise queer intimacy as something complex, inventive and culturally significant.

In Thomson’s images, the body is rarely offered whole. It is cropped, fragmented, dressed, pressed, staged or acted upon. This visual strategy unsettles easy consumption: the viewer sees desire, but not always on conventional terms. Drawing from fashion, fetish and fine-art photography, Thomson collapses distinctions between private pleasure and public image, between erotic subculture and artistic form.

For The Queer Museum, Thomson’s work insists that queer representation need not be respectable to be powerful. Pleasure, sweat, surprise, latex, flesh and performance become forms of knowledge. His connection to Glasgow’s DIY queer club scene, including his role as co-founder of DRIP, further roots the work in community, nightlife and collective self-expression.

Rather than asking queer bodies to behave, Thomson’s photographs allow them to play, provoke and exceed the frame. In doing so, they reclaim desire as a public, political and deeply joyful force.