ABSTRACT
As someone who works with clay, I am interested in how archaeologists create narratives of the past from ceramic fragments and vessels. I saw my solo exhibition Queering the Museum at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (2010–2011) as a means of creating a contemporary ‘dig’ that could allow LGBT narratives to come to light. The exhibition involved placing new works alongside the existing collections and rearranging objects from the permanent collection to recontextualise them. It comprised nineteen interventions in the galleries, each of which sought to unpick how lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) experiences could be interpreted through the collections, and question why LGBT experiences are so seldom included in museum and gallery displays.
