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

Queer Punk duo bringing Joyous Rage to The Brickyard

As a little ice-breaker before their much anticipated visit to Carlisle, we wanted to get to know siblings Sean and […] Read More

Saturday Town shows us the future is bright, wild and queer.

The radical self expression of youth is being captured via pop-up technicolour studios across northern England, thanks to Casey Orr […] Read More

The Anarchist Potter Celebrating Imperfection

If Kurt Cobain was a plate, he would have been turned, glazed, fired…and smashed, by Luke Morgan. Queer Cumbria are […] Read More

Why the king’s speech stinks

Some artists, when faced with the stark white walls of a gallery space, would be forgiven for taking a nervous […] Read More

QUEER SOBER ZINE

To keep thriving, queer communities have learned that health and contentment are rarely found at the bottom of a Blue […] Read More

THEN & NOW

Eight years after the iconic photo was taken by Stephen Benson, Queer Cumbria catch up with the young person in […] Read More

Emerging Artist | Leon

Tell us a bit about yourself… Leon, 19 and from Carlisle…I’m studying illustration at the University of Huddersfield and I […] Read More