Gabriel Kidd is inspired by the queerness of figures from fairy-tale and folklore, often returning to the stories of myth and legend as he explores the formation of queer identity. Gathering pieces of ephemera, grass, stone and bark from the Saddleworth Moor north of Manchester, Kidd makes assemblages, textiles and drawings that exist somewhere between the fantastical and the real.
Rooted in both archetypal, cultural narratives, personal experience and embodiment, Matilda Sutton’s work features beings somewhere between humanness and animalness. Sutton questions binary systems and conceptual dualisms by taking ‘gender’ and ‘species’ in their hands to prod and poke. Creatures engage in actions and glances that are born from questions raised in searching the faulty borders of the body, identity and self.
