Exhibition
Being Bird: A Queer Archive of Ornithology
14 Jul 2024 – 25 Aug 2024
Regular hours
- Sunday
- 00:00 – 23:30
- Monday
- 00:00 – 23:30
- Tuesday
- 00:00 – 23:30
- Wednesday
- 00:00 – 23:30
- Thursday
- 00:00 – 23:30
- Friday
- 00:00 – 23:30
- Saturday
- 00:00 – 23:30
Address
- Quay House
- 2c Kings Grove
- London
- SE15 2NB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- No. 12 to Peckham. Then walk 5mins east along Queens Road. No. 36, 436 or 171 to Queens Road Peckham station from Victoria through Oval. No. 53 or 453 from Oxford Circus via Elephant & Castle. Get off at 'Toys R Us' on the Old Kent Road. 7mins walk
- 6 an hour from London Bridge to Queens Road Peckham (7mins). Also 10 past and 40 minutes past the hour from Victoria, London Bridge train (17mins).
For his solo show at M2 Gallery, Paul Harfleet
presents a series of drawings and ‘gentle references’,
the work explores birds and natural history through
illustration, prop-making, writing and research.
About
In this exhibition Harfleet delves into his queerness and personal
history to share his love of birds in an attempt to
understand his own sense of camp and flamboyance
and how it intersects with ornithology and its
troubling cultural history.
Harfleet is known for his ongoing work with The
Pansy Project, he has been planting pansies at sites
of homophobia and transphobia since 2005 and has
been included in exhibitions and festivals around
the world. Recently his work featured in ‘Vanguard:
Bristol Street Art’, at the M-Shed, Bristol and ‘Earthly
Observatory’, SAIC galleries, Chicago, USA. In 2022
he was amongst the first winners of the Madame
F Queer Britain Art award and is included in their
permanent collection.
