LORE @ Sunny Bank Mills
LORE is a group exhibition featuring 14 artists exploring contemporary folklore through their practice.
Folklore is continually evolving and can be used as a tool to help us connect and make sense of personal and social landscapes that can be challenging to navigate. Folklore is created by people. It encompasses customs, tales, sayings, dances, material objects or any art forms preserved among a people, rooted in place and time, memorialising communities and celebrating the personal craft of the artist or artists.
‘This new work signifies Kit’s reconnection with their roots in rural Cumbria, and explores the overlaps of Scottish, Northumbrian and Cumbrian folklore with queerness and otherness. Over time, their appreciation has grown for the folk culture, history and natural beauty they were surrounded by during their childhood.
“Nature has always held and accepted me, even when I thought what I needed was the urban landscape, and social life. This sense of belonging is never cliquey or performative.”
As part of LORE, Kit made and photographed three characters. Once these characters were created, it became clear to Kit that they could all be seen as symbols of death, rebirth and cycles.’
The physical copy of the Zine as well as
prints of this work are available upon request
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Leap of Faith at Leeds City Museum
As part of the events organised by @GossipGrrrl in collaberation with the Museum, Newton Danger and Kit George exhibited work on the theme of Transness and faith both past and present, that were displayed in the entrance hall.
Judiasm and Christianity contain many examples of being trans/ and or intersex, with the Talmud containing at least 8 genders, and Christianity venerating multiple saints that we may now think of as transgender. Here’s Kit’s painting of St Andrei/Xenia, who was venerated in 18th century St Petersburg.
50th Anniversary celebration of The First National T.S & T.V Conference in Leeds
An event organised by @GossipGrrrl to commemorate the first conference in leeds.
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This involved making posters for many events at Leeds City Museum, as well as a Blue Plaque Unveiling at the university.
Workshop with Culture Club X Thackray Museum - Dressing Disability (Nov 23)
As part of Disability History Month, a new permanent display now features in the TMM. In response to this, Kit was invited to run a workshop centered around Disability and the objects and subjects in the new display.
Kit produced Colouring and collage sheets featuring disabled actors and models, and encouraged the young people to think more about prompts in the exhibition as well as those Kit brought themselves. The young people were motivated and helped by other staff to create A4 pages expressing and asking these questions and ideas.
Please click through the post to see more of their work!
Run of the Mill History - Rise Up Women!
Access Consultant
Kit had the pleasure of being the Access Consultant for Run of The Mill History events. Event description:
‘Step back to 1913 and join in a Suffragette meeting at St John’s Church.
Run of the Mill history is a project, run by Jude Kershaw, hosting intersectional history events. Rise Up Women! is an immersive theatre event set up as a WSPU meeting in 1913 led by historical interpreters playing Suffragettes. Housed in the historic St John the Evangelist’s church, prepare to be pulled back to a time before the welfare state, the living wage and universal suffrage.
Rise Up Women! will highlight untold stories of people of colour, queer people and people with disabilities within the Suffrage movement of the 1900s.’
Mill Impersonators x Gill Crawshaw x Leeds 2023
‘Any Work that Wanted Doing’
in October 23, Luna Morgana & Kit George Art were hosting a workshop for disabled queer people at Leeds Industrial Museum, part of Leeds Museums And Galleries; about Textile mills and drag kings on Saturday 28th October, 12 - 2pm
Thankyou to @GillCrawshaw for producing this as part of #AnyWorkThatWantedDoing exhibition for Leeds 2023.
Funded by Heritage fund UK.
Heritage Jam 2024
A project ran by York University, Past at Play Lab and DAH Lab in association with Leeds University. Kit was invited to participate as an artist and researcher, to join this collaborative project focused on decolonization and hidden histories. This years project was focused on Avebury henge, and its botched reconstruction as well as more recent archaeological studies.
Kit wanted to focus on the histories of the unamed labourers who were drawn but never credited with their work. Here is a drawing that Kit animated to illustrate them, taken from the draughtsman’s drawing of the dig.
Queerology - Here & Queer @ Assembly House
Kit had a large part in organizing and curating this exhibition, along with other collective members.
"Queerology is a collective of queer artists based in Leeds. It began life as a project producing queer art, instigated by the 50th anniversary of homosexuality being decriminalized in England (1967-2017). It had since grown into an artist collective with emphasis on promoting and platforming queer art and artists in Leeds, particularly trans and non-binary people.
“Here and Queer” proposes an exhibition surrounding the theme of Queer Visibility. The title itself, relating to the phrase “We’re here! We’re Queer! Get used to it!” shouted in protest. “Here and Queer” will explore the many different and unique ways of being visible as a queer individual.
Queerology @ Leeds City Museum
For LGBTQ history month (Feburary) 2023, Queerology Leeds was invited to feature in Leeds City Museum's community corridor.
This included work from Kit & Oran Rose, & Hold It Up collective; Florian Hynam, Frankie Mazzotta & Kristina Nenova.
Kit was a part of the Queerology collective since 2018, and has had a part organizing and sharing opportunities since ‘22.
Bundles for Armley Action Team
Armley Action Team are a community charity in Armley, Leeds.
They asked me to create some logo / branding for their new shop / foodbank that wasn't too off putting for teenagers but also welcoming to parents and children.
This included creating the logo for their charity, as well as design the Bundles logo and sign for the food bank.
Rat Party Poster
Digital Image designed for a LGBTQ, POC and SWer centered club night; Rat Party, based in Leeds.
The poster & social media promotional images were created for an event at Eiger Studios in winter 2022.
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