Museum of the Home will host the Winter edition of curator Davy Pittoors’s Queeriosities fair on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd December 2023. Building on the success of May’s inaugural event, the fair will again invite LGBTQIA+ artists, makers, and small businesses to come together and share work that explores the relationship between identity and home.

This Winter edition of Queeriosities will play on the concept of a traditional festive market, featuring 48 vendors offering a unique selection of thought-provoking ceramics, paintings, sculpture, textiles, books, ephemera, homeware and gifts. Visitors will be able to either purchase directly from artists and makers — or bring their own art, objects or ephemera to swap. Participants will include artists Rachael House, Krishna Shanthi, Urania London, Peter Ibruegger, Will Martin, Radek Husak, and Forma Editions.

“The vibrant group of artists and makers I’ve brought together for this Winter edition of Queeriosities are among the most exciting emerging LGBTQIA+ creatives from London and beyond,” comments Pittoors. “Queer stories often get sidelined or lost in history — and this fair helps ensure the spread and circulation of our objects, art, and ephemera across people’s lives.”

On Friday 1st December, the Museum will host a launch event offering advance access to the work on show and the opportunity to meet artists and makers ahead of the fair’s official opening the next day. Sunday 3rd December, the Museum will host a panel discussion moderated by Pittoors exploring themes of queer design and craft as an act of care. Pittoors will be joined by Dr. Daniel Fountain, editor of Crafted with Pride and Ben Walters, founder of Badge Cafe, and hand-weaver and textile artist, Jacob Monk. The fair will also feature an audio-visual piece by Semi Precious and Yasmin Vardi, and an interactive badge making workshop run by Badge Cafe. Alongside Queeriosities, the Museum will actively gather objects and testimonies bearing witness to queer home-making as part of their Real Rooms project as well. Focussing on wider themes such as chosen family, shared housing, squatting and regional migration, visitors to the fair will be able to talk to a curator about the ever growing archive of LGBTQIA+ stories and objects present at the Museum.

“At the Museum of the Home, our Rooms Through Time aim to bring out voices and stories that are otherwise missing, and Queeriosities provides an excellent opportunity for the queer community to leave their mark on the curation of our future 2000s room and the direction of the museum’s collecting,” shares Museum director Sonia Solicari. “We’re also thrilled to bring the fair back to the Museum of the Home as a way for the queer community to come together and connect, particularly in the lead-up to a joyous holiday season.”

About Queeriosities

Founded and led by curator Davy Pittoors, Queeriosities is a traveling platform that elevates LGBTQIA+ creatives expressing their identities through art, craft and design. Ranging from pop-up dinners to full-scale art and makers fairs, our initiatives highlight those who have been historically sidelined and serve as a platform to knit our communities together and connect them and with new audiences. We encourage the spread of both contemporary and historical LGBTQIA+ objects, art and ephemera — and we aim to blur the lines between art and craft, museum and home, and archive and collection to open up new space for queer perspectives.

About Museum of the Home

Museum of the Home’s purpose is to reveal and rethink the ways we live, in order to live better together. Through our collections, exhibitions, events, performances and debates, we reveal diverse, thought-provoking and personal stories of the home from the last 400 years to the present and looking into the homes of the future. Explore stories of home and share your own.

https://museumofthehome.org.uk/whats-on/events/queeriosities-winter/