a-n Bursary

Stirchley Print Works 2025

Supported by a-n: The Artist Information Company

This project was developed with an a-n Bursary to support a period of membership and 1-2-1 mentoring at Stirchley Printworks, combining hands-on printmaking with research into histories of queer print.

Working across linocut, screen print, and mono print the project is informed by Queer culture, the work prioritises process over polish and remains open-ended.

Alongside hands-on making, the bursary has supported focused research into the histories of queer print — from underground publications and activist posters to DIY zines and collective print practices — and how these histories continue to shape contemporary ways of working.

I’ve been exploring printmaking as a queer practice rather than a route to fixed outcomes. Repetition, variation, misregistration, and imperfection are treated as productive tools. Test prints and small runs sit alongside more resolved works, forming an archive of process rather than a single finished result.

This research is also informed by previous projects such as Cum Clubbing and Fluid Festival where DIY culture and nightlife, collectivity, informality, and experimentation have always mattered. Those influences surface in the way this project values access over mastery, and process over polish.

Although the bursary period has now been completed the project continues to unfold and has led to further work, with public outcomes to be shared in due course.