Queer Eutopia

Exploring the ideas of a more inclusive future with LGBTQIA+ young people from The Lee Cooper Foundation, and staff at Northern.

Over a series of workshops, we experimented with collage, planting, poetry, photography, drawing/painting and placard making.

As part of this project, we were invited to Knowsley Flower Show, engaging visitors in conversations about the importance of amplifying young people's voices locally.

These ideas and creations inspired two artworks for Prescot and Newton-le-Willows train stations. The murals platform LGBTQIA+ voices from satellite towns between Liverpool and Manchester and both artworks carry a positive message about supporting each other to create safer, more welcoming places to live.

The title Queer Eutopia comes from the realistic or attainable concept of a good place; the word ‘utopia’, on the other hand, is a place that does not exist.