The Mind Behind a Modern Queer Fairytale

Daniel Sheen he/him is a queer, multidisciplinary artist and writer, currently living in the UK. Right now Daniel is working […] Read More

Everything Gets Brighter as the Night Grows Darker

ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a boy. Molten, dark, pale, silky soft, an accumulation of strange angles that never […] Read More

Everything is Plunder

The beautiful mind behind the cover for issue three of Queer Cumbria is James Stopforth, who used some of our […] Read More

YOUR MA

Your Ma has been to war kid, A tiny counter on the board. Where every patriarchal move, Was conducted with […] Read More

Riotous Youth Arts Project Coming to West Cumbria

Meet your new best arty friends, North Star Co-Design – a community interest company co-directed by Louie Ingham and Lee […] Read More

Whitehaven’s Queer Punk Artist

If you thought punk was dead, think again. Over in Whitehaven Twiggy is busy in their studio creating queer art […] Read More

LAST THOUGHTS OF A DYING PHOENIX

I’m shattering. My feathers are falling, my bones are breaking. My ligaments stretch, tight and taut, I thought I taught […] Read More

Trans Experience – School, College and Barbie

Albedo is a brilliant young artist based in West Cumbria. We love their work and wanted to learn more about […] Read More

I Dont Get To Love Where I Live

The rays of sunset fall on the fells below Scafell Pike, dousing the terrain in a golden hue. Bluetits and […] Read More

Queer Puppetry Making Cardboard Cool

Aidan Dawson is working on a film project that talks of queer experience through the art of puppetry. Inspired by […] Read More

ART/FASHION ANARCHIST NOKI SHOT BY TIM WALKER

Hi Noki! Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m from Aberdeen, Scotland, moving at 11 to a small […] Read More

The Boy Melancholy

Inks, watercolour and marker pens are used as tools of expression by Johnny Kavanagh aka The Boy Melancholy. He takes […] Read More