Queer + Metals at Ferrous Festival
25 March – 3 April 2022
Ferrous Festival, Hereford
Free
Orlando by Theo Somerville-Scott. Image: Martha Rose Photography.
Explore the multiplicity of queerness — as identity, lived experience, thinking, culture, aesthetic, influence, stories, place, and imagination— in relation to metalwork and metalsmithing.
Ferrous Festival returns to Hereford City Centre from 25 March - 3rd April 2022. Ferrous 2022 will showcase cutting edge craft and ideas, hosting international exhibitions alongside popular attractions and presenting making as a way to connect globally, locally and personally.
This year's celebration of artist blacksmithing includes a Craftspace exhibition co-curated by Dauvit Alexander and Deirdre Figueiredo, in collaboration with Rebekah Frank. Queer + Metals aims to affirm, empower and express solidarity between LGBTQ+ creatives, making visible the ways they are shaping, disrupting and contributing to contemporary craft and design practices.
Orlando, Theo Somerville-Scott. Photo: Martha Rose Photography
Rather than provide answers or fixed ideas, the event will open up possibilities and make connections within a diverse, complex and fluid community of makers. Artists featured include jeweller John Moore, jeweller and drag artist Fei He, knife maker Gilbert Hadden and metalsmith Theo Somerville-Scott, amongst others.
The exhibition also includes images and video interviews produced as part of San Francisco based jeweller and writer, Rebekah Frank’s digital residency with Craftspace. Dauvit, Deirdre and Rebekah identify as LGBTQ+ as part of their intersectional identities, making this project a personal and collective endeavour. Presenting in a public space is an opportunity for a wider audience to become more aware of diverse cultures.
Plan your visit
- 6A St Peter’s Square, Hereford HR1 2PG
- Open Friday 25 March - 3 April from 11-4 pm
- Free to attend!
About Ferrous Festival
Ferrous is an artist blacksmithing festival created in a collaboration between Hereford College of Arts, home of one of the few Artist Blacksmithing degree courses in the world, and Hereford Business Improvement District. Ferrous 2022 will be the third festival that the partnership has produced together to celebrate metalcraft, engage the public and create discourse around craft and making.
Craftspace is a charity creating opportunities to see, make and be curious about exceptional contemporary craft, that builds relationships between artists, people and organisations and encourage the sharing of ideas, skills and knowledge.
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