QUEERING: Designer Charles Jeffrey finds his queer safe space in an illustrative performance

The verb form of the word queer, 'Queering' looks for places where gender, sexuality, masculinity and femininity can be challenged and questioned. Our immersive live stream, 12 and 13 July 2018, saw individuals from all walks use their art, talent and physicality to both show and tell us what the term means to them. 'Drawing is very cathartic, almost anarchic; the performance is about the movement of attacking the canvas and going to a place within myself that feels safe.' Charles Jeffrey’s performance shows the process behind an illustration which tackles the Scottish myth of ‘the other’ in relation the gateway to ‘heaven’. Jeffrey wants to highlight that safe spaces for queer people can come from their own imaginations and from their own hand, via makeup or their artwork.