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SUMMARY:Midlands Art Papers Launch: Queer Work in Museums and Galleries
DESCRIPTION:Book your free ticket on Eventbrite. \nJoin us to launch the latest issue of Midlands Art Papers\, which focuses on queer work in museums and galleries. This year’s issue brings together just a selection of the exhibitions\, displays\, and community projects in the Midlands that have addressed LGBTQ+ experiences and histories\, and spotlights queer artworks and objects in local museum and gallery collections. It includes material that reflects on objects and practices in Leicester\, Walsall\, Coventry\, Birmingham\, and Wolverhampton. \nThis launch event is designed to complement and augment the articles in this issue\, through short talks by artists and practitioners that reflect further on the processes\, possibilities\, and challenges of doing queer work in museums and galleries\, in the Midlands and outside of it\, and in the present and over time. Lunch will be provided\, with space for more informal discussion and networking. \nA full schedule for the event is forthcoming. Speakers include: \n\nExodus Crooks (artist)\nDeirdre Figueiredo (Craftspace Director)\nCharan Singh (artist)\nMatt Smith (artist)\nJohn Yeadon (artist)\n\nDeirdre will use {Queer} + {Metals} project and exhibition as a case study to highlight an LGBTQ+ led\, collaborative and enquiring journey between Deirdre Figueiredo\, Dauvit Alexander and Rebekah Frank which resulted in a unique exhibition\, an Instagram showcase\, essays\, video interviews and artists’ responses to questions about queerness and metalworking. \nThere is something in the resilience and transformative capacity of metal that is\, at least to me\, reminiscent of the queer experience. – Amparo Pons Grau (she/her)\, Artist \nQueerness is a rejection of binaries and residing in a life in the in-between. – Cate Richards (they/them)\, Artist \nThis event will take place in LOB 101 at the Library Of Birmingham. Accessibility information for the venue is available here.
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/map-launch/
LOCATION:Library of Birmingham\, Centenary Square\, Broad Street\, Birmingham\, B1 2ND
CATEGORIES:get involved,Queer Metals
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SUMMARY:{Queer} + {Metals} Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:How do ‘queerness’ and metalsmithing intersect? Alongside the exhibition this international panel discussion will explore ideas of transformation and queering materials. A US based panel includes Rebekah Frank\, Marcelo Ferreira Gustafsson\, Funlola Coker and Eleanor Rose. UK based artists are Daniel Fountain\, Roxanne Simone and Dauvit Alexander. The panel is chaired by Director of Craftspace\, Deirdre Figueiredo\, MBE \nPart of UK LGBT+ History month. \nFree\nBook your ticket \nYou can also join our live stream from 6.30pm – 8.30pm GMT/ 10.30am – 12.30pm PST/ 1.30pm – 3.30pm EST. \nThe {Queer} + {Metals} exhibition features artworks by 8 UK artists\, video interviews with 8 international artists and an Instagram campaign\, exploring the multiplicity of queerness through metalwork and metalsmithing. Viewed together in this context\, the artworks can be seen as an act of resistance. They are a means to empower\, affirm and express solidarity between LGBTQIA+ creatives\, making visible the ways they are shaping\, disrupting and contributing to contemporary culture. Rather than provide answers or fixed ideas\, the exhibition seeks to open up possibilities and make connections within a diverse\, intersectional\, complex and fluid community of making. \nImage: Roxanne Simone\, Canopic. Photo: Roxanne Simone. \n  \n 
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/queer-metals-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Midlands Arts Centre\, Cannon Hill Park\, Birmingham\, B12 9QH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Queer Metals
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SUMMARY:{Queer} + {Metals} Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join co-curators\, Director of Craftspace Deirdre Figueiredo and artist Dauvit Alexander\, for an informal tour of the {Queer} + {Metals} exhibition. Featuring artworks by 7 UK artists\, video interviews with 8 international artists and an Instagram campaign\, this exhibition explores the multiplicity of queerness through metalwork and metalsmithing. Viewed together in this context\, the artworks can be seen as an act of resistance. They are a means to empower\, affirm and express solidarity between LGBTQIA+ creatives\, making visible the ways they are shaping\, disrupting and contributing to contemporary culture. Rather than provide answers or fixed ideas\, the exhibition seeks to open up possibilities and make connections within a diverse\, intersectional\, complex and fluid community of making. \nPresented as part of SHOUT Festival 2022. \nFree\nBook your ticket \nImage: John Moore\, Pagoda II\, photo: John Moore \nImage description: A large circular red and black metal neckpiece constructed like a collar and photographed on a black background. There are three layers of flat and shaped metal segments\, which overlap.
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/queer-metals-exhibition-tour/
LOCATION:Midlands Arts Centre\, Cannon Hill Park\, Birmingham\, B12 9QH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Queer Metals
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SUMMARY:{Queer} + {Metals}
DESCRIPTION:Featuring artworks by 8 UK artists\, video interviews with 8 international artists and an Instagram campaign\, this exhibition explores the multiplicity of queerness through metalwork and metalsmithing. Viewed together in this context\, the artworks can be seen as an act of resistance. They are a means to empower\, affirm and express solidarity between LGBTQIA+ creatives\, making visible the ways they are shaping\, disrupting and contributing to contemporary culture. Rather than provide answers or fixed ideas\, the exhibition seeks to open up possibilities and make connections within a diverse\, intersectional\, complex and fluid community of making. \nFree \nThis exhibition is in the Community Gallery at MAC. \nImage: John Moore\, Pagoda II. (Photo: John Moore.)
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/queer-metals/
LOCATION:Midlands Arts Centre\, Cannon Hill Park\, Birmingham\, B12 9QH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Queer Metals
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SUMMARY:Ferrous Festival - Queer + Metals: Discussion\, Debate\, Performance
DESCRIPTION:An evening of discussion\, debate and performance based around the Queer + Metal Exhibition for Ferrous Festival 2022.\n\n\n\n\n\nCurators Deirdre Figueiredo and Dauvit Alexander will give a tour of the the Queer + Metal exhibition\, discuss its genesis and explore the ideas behind the show with artist\, writer\, activist and theoretician Rebekah Frank\, jewellery artist\, John Moore\, student artist-blacksmiths from Hereford College of Art and others. As part of this discussion\, Rebekah will present some of the findings from her digital residency with Craftspace. After the event in the gallery space\, the event will move to the Powerhouse Theatre for a drag performance by metalsmith Fei He. \n\n\nThis event is Free. Book your tickets.
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/ferrous-festival-queer-metals-discussion-debate-performance/
LOCATION:6A St Peter’s Square\, Hereford\, HR1 2PG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Queer Metals
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SUMMARY:Queer + Metals Exhibition at the Ferrous Festival
DESCRIPTION:Queer + Metals exhibition at the Ferrous Festival \nA Craftspace exhibition co-curated by Dauvit Alexander and Deirdre Figueiredo in collaboration with Rebekah Frank. \nThe exhibition and digital residency with Rebekah Frank explores the multiplicity of queerness in relation to metalwork and metalsmithing. Whether as identities\, lived experiences\, thinking\, cultures\, aesthetics\, influences\, stories\, places and imagination. Viewed together in this context\, the artworks can be seen as an act of resistance. The exhibition is a means to empower\, affirm and express solidarity between LGBTQIA+ creatives\, making visible the ways they are shaping\, disrupting and contributing to contemporary craft and design practices. Rather than provide answers or fixed ideas\, it seeks to open up possibilities and make connections within a diverse\, intersectional\, complex and fluid community of making. \nWe respect that for some within our community ‘queer’ is still associated with oppression whilst others are strongly reclaiming it as a liberating non-binary collective term. \nUK artists are represented physically in the exhibition\, whilst international artists who participated in Rebekah Frank’s digital residency are represented through an Instagram campaign and video interviews. The Queer + Metals project has included practitioners at different stages of their careers from a wide variety of backgrounds\, many of whom have practices as intersectional as their lives. There are blacksmiths\, sculptors\, jewellers\, farriers\, welders\, machinists\, activists and performers. \nDauvit\, Deirdre and Rebekah identify as LGBTQ+ as part of their intersectional identities\, making this project a personal and collective endeavour. We are proud to occupy public space in presenting this work. It provides the opportunity for a wider audience to become more aware of diverse cultures and for LGBTQIA+ visitors to feel included. \nThe exhibition is open from 11am – 4pm.
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/queer-metals-exhibition-at-the-ferrous-festival/
LOCATION:6A St Peter’s Square\, Hereford\, HR1 2PG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Queer Metals
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