Queer Care Exchange
2025
What systems, manners and manifestations of care arise through queerness? Globally, across environmental, political and community sectors, we notice a growing need for care. In a queer context, care can manifest in radical acts: through protest, mourning, vigils and in the creation of chosen families.
This project is part of a wider collaboration between Gareth Hart and myself after meeting in Naarm/Melbourne in 2022 and since developing a friendship rooted in shared care practices. In September 2025 we undertook a two-week residency split between QUEERCIRCLE and my London studio, where we explored how care can act as a central force in both creative and community spaces. Part of this process was meeting with a range of UK and Australian based creatives, whose practices explore or oscillate around care.
Our time together culminated in a public program at QUEERCIRCLE, bringing together members of the public and artists to discuss queer care, alongside Gareth running a care walk and myself delivering a creative workshop exploring self and collective care.
As an outcome of this collaboration, Hart and I have developed a queer care zine influenced by all the conversations and creative experiences generated throughout the project. We invite you to download the digital copy of the zine, engage with its insights and reflections on queer care, and share it within your networks as part of the ongoing dialogue around creative, radical and collective care practices.
The zine is double sided.
For a physical copy: Please download, and set your printer to 'print both sides'', with 'flip on the short edge' selected.
This project has been supported by the British Council, through the Connections Through Culture program, with additional partnership and funding from QUEERCIRCLE and Arts & Health Hub.
