{Queer} + {Metals}

{Queer} + {Metals} is a Craftspace exhibition co-curated by its Director Deirdre Figueiredo and Dauvit Alexander artist and tutor at Birmingham City University’s School of Jewellery in collaboration with artist Rebekah Frank.

The exhibition uses the lens of metalworking to explore the multiplicity of queerness – whether as identity, lived experiences, thinking, cultures, aesthetic, influences, stories, place, and imagination – in relation to metalwork and metalsmithing.

8 UK 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. Frank devised an online survey to gather perspectives from around the world. Respondents answered questions about what it means to be a queer, how queer-ness and metal-ness overlap and whether it matters. 119 responses were received from every continent except Antarctica!