Photograph by Craig Waddell, exhibited at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery as part of the COUNTED exhibition to mark the 2022 Scottish Census
Oskar Kirk Hansen is half Danish and half British, and was born in Chiang Mai, Thailand. After a childhood in South East Asia, he was raised in Italy as a teenager.
Having studied at the European Film College in Denmark, he lived in Copenhagen for a year, where he experimented with camcorder video work, music videos, and freelance gig videography.
He moved to Edinburgh in 2016, where he started his practice in abstract metaphysical painting at Leith School of Art.
He moved to Edinburgh in 2016, where he started his practice in abstract metaphysical painting at Leith School of Art.
Around the same time he started performing in drag, working under the stage name Mystika Glamoor, which has been his most successful work. He has proven himself as a force to be reckoned with on the local performance scene, running a weekly cabaret for over a year, performing a succesful solo show at Hidden Door festival which awaits further development, and has travelled to perform in Leeds, Liverpool, Glasgow, Berlin, and Zurich.
In 2020 he opened KAFE KWEER, a sober safe space for the local queer community that sells and exhibits art by local creatives.
His portrait by Craig Waddell (seen above) is part of the National Galleries permanent collection, his face appeared on the 2022 Fringe programme and advertising, and he has appeared on TV with Alan Cumming and Miriam Margolyes for their Channel4 documentary show 'Alan And Miriam: Lost In Scotland'
