is not your common, or ‘garden’ drag queen. Despite the make-up applied with a trowel, ginormous silicone breast plate and wigs in varying shades of platinum playfully mimicking the sex symbols of the 1940s, there is certainly more than initially meets the eye. Firstly, they were assigned a female gender at birth, but identify as non-binary, taking the pronouns ‘they’ and ‘their’.
“Basically, my drag character is always a bit bored to be there. Always looking incredible, but almost irritated by the fact she is having to perform,” they tell me over the phone. Sin is in the midst of installing their final exhibition at the Royal College of Art as part of their M.A. in Print, which would explain a penchant for the after-show ritual that they have created as part of taking their make-up off.