(Looking) Exactly Like it is Today
Postcards, Card
2024

The work features postcards in Tees Valley Arts Archive each encased in black card with selective editing to reveal parts of each postcard, but importantly never the whole. Over the course of the research I was drawn to notions of authorship; of what goes in the archive, of the photographer and publisher. They made choices on what should be shown and by extension what shouldn’t, what is censored. I wanted to introduce a queer hand to the role of author, my hand.The circular cutouts are both a reference to the pier peep boards in the show but also in the Queering act embracing non-linear narratives.

I was also commissioned seperately as a researcher for the exhibition, my research was used a the youth collective to create works that queered the Redcar coastline. The research outcome was a website that considered LGBT+, Northern and Working-Class identities; drawing from and highlighting the intersectional narratives on the coast and in Redcar which is full of queer potential.

It is split into 5 sub sections that aim to (re)contextualise the landscape and historical narratives through a queer lens. These sections are;