Where We Meet is an exhibition emerging from Queer Grounds, a young people’s programme supported by Photoworks and Phoenix. Bringing together queer young people, the programme created space for collective learning through making, conversation, and shared enquiry, facilitated by myself and Kairo Kay.
The artworks trace moments from the group’s shared process. From staged self-portraits playing with ideas of shelter and gathering, to wooden tote boxes developed with the queer-led carpentry organisation In Our Hands.
Responding to In Our Hands’ distinctive visual language, self-built structures, improvised wooden frames and patchwork constructions, the group developed a layered assembly of wood offcuts reflecting on windows, thresholds, and the use of leftover materials.
The accompanying book on How to Work with Tools and Wood is a nod to the long, often gendered legacy of woodworking. Through visual interventions, the young people gently disrupt, opening the book as a space to rethink who participates in these craft traditions. Each element reflects an inquiry into how building, both as structure and metaphor can hold, support, and connect queer experience.
Above: Where We Meet, Silver Gelatin Prints, Copy Paper, Various Sizes on Wood Ply Offcuts, L Nails and G Clamp, November 2025
