The Collection

Tag: In 2014, I was given the opportunity to curate an exhibition as part of our Brighton Trans*formed oral history project. There were no affordable venues available in town. So I decided to create a trail of installations in queer spaces instead. I sourced a cheap and broken (but rather gorgeous) second-hand art deco cabinet and put it on display in what was then the queer Marlborough Pub and Theatre. I filled it with fairy lights and objects I sourced from the people who gave us their oral histories for the book. I displayed the objects with brown tags telling their stories. The weekend of Brighton Trans Pride, the cabinet was getting so much attention with people crowded around it to look in, that you could barely get past everyone to order at the bar. I stood back and watched, and soon realised I was onto something. At the same time up the road on Brighton's gay St James' Street, I recreated a hospital scene with my surgery artefacts and chest tissue in the gay tattoo shop the Gilded Cage. When I was deinstalling the displays, the two ideas came together and the rest, as they say, is transcestry.

Collection

Main Collection

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Publications

Dimensions

Height 23 cm Width 23 cm