Queeriosities (Art & Makers Fair)

Mark Your Diaries! Queeriosities returns to Copeland Gallery in Peckham for our 2026 edition. Join us for our preview evening on Friday 2 October and for the fair over the weekend of 3-4 October. Full programme and ticket information to follow in the coming weeks. …… Are you a queer artist, maker, creative, designer or small business? If so, we hope you’ll apply to exhibit at this year’s fair! If you’re interested in participating, please apply through the open call form by 30th June. Link in bio ↑ @copelandparkse

I can’t believe it’s already been almost a month since Queeriosities 2025! What a weekend — nearly 3,000 visitors, more than 60 incredible LGBTQIA+ artists and makers, my curated exhibition "We Come to This Place for Magic," and a beautiful opening night that left me feeling deeply proud of everything we created together. Creating space for queer voices and opening up direct revenue streams for artists feels more vital than ever, and I’m so proud that Queeriosities has found its place within a growing ecosystem championing queer art in all its forms. As we start dreaming up Queeriosities 2026, I’d love to hear from YOU — what stood out this year, what could be improved, and would you like to see more Queeriosities-branded events throughout the year? Our feedback survey is open for just a few more days — find the link in @queeriosities_ ’s bio! Photos by @cherryauhoni @copelandparkse

What a weekend! Thank you to everyone who came out to support all of our incredible artists and makers. Your energy, support and love smashed every record. We’re beyond grateful to our entire Queeriosities community for making this fair our biggest and boldest yet. Did you join us for Queeriosities 2025? We’d love to hear your thoughts. Share your feedback for a chance to win free VIP tickets to our 2026 edition or a £50 gift voucher to @thecommonpress . Multiple winners will be selected! Link in bio. Photos by @cherryauhoni

Today’s also your last chance to see our fine art exhibition, “We Come to This Place for Magic.” Curated by Queeriosities founder Davy Pittoors, the exhibition features bold new works by six queer artists exploring themes of queer world-building. Open today until 5pm. Free tickets via the link in bio! Photos by @documentedbyhenrit #queeriosities2025

The fair is officially open! Queeriosities Art and Makers Fair runs all weekend at Copeland Gallery in Peckham, bringing together more than 60 LGBTQIA+ artists and makers alongside the exhibition “We Come to This Place for Magic.” Here’s a look back at last night’s Opening Preview — an incredible start to our weekend of queer art, craft and community. Join us tomorrow for our final day — entry is free, doors open 11am. Photos by @cherryauhoni #queeriosities2025

Queeriosities (Art and Makers Fair) 26-28 September • Copeland Gallery, Peckham ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Tickets for opening night have been going fast! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We’re only a few tickets away from selling out — so if you haven’t reserved your spot yet, now’s the time! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #queeriosities2025

Queeriosities (Art and Makers Fair) 26-28 September • Copeland Gallery, Peckham ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Tickets and info via link in bio ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Marf Summers [@marfsummers ] reimagines ritual through craft, where dyke druidism and trans-alchemy take form in ways that expose the uneasy pull between sympathetic magic and obsessive-compulsive magical thinking. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This year’s curated exhibition, “We Come to This Place for Magic” gathers new works by six queer artists who create alternatives that sit in and alongside the canonical world, challenging any dominant narrative of what the “world” is. Especially in a moment when the wider world feels precarious, these works invite us to imagine and inhabit spaces where other ways of living, loving and being together are not only possible — but already here. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ By holding these artists’ worlds together and in tension, we see how queer world-building itself is an act of magic. But here, magic is not illusion but proof for us all: the world can be made, unmade and made again anew. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #queeriosities2025

Queeriosities (Art and Makers Fair) 26-28 September • Copeland Gallery, Peckham ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Tickets and info via link in bio ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Desire becomes atmospheric in Krzysztof Strzelecki’s [@krzysztof_ceramic ] sculpture, which depicts and invites the act of cruising to charge ceramics with sensual utopian possibility. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This year’s curated exhibition, “We Come to This Place for Magic” gathers new works by six queer artists who create alternatives that sit in and alongside the canonical world, challenging any dominant narrative of what the “world” is. Especially in a moment when the wider world feels precarious, these works invite us to imagine and inhabit spaces where other ways of living, loving and being together are not only possible — but already here. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ By holding these artists’ worlds together and in tension, we see how queer world-building itself is an act of magic. But here, magic is not illusion but proof for us all: the world can be made, unmade and made again anew. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #queeriosities2025

Queeriosities (Art and Makers Fair) 26-28 September • Copeland Gallery, Peckham ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Tickets and info via link in bio ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Currents of ritual practices extend into Paul Majek’s [@paul_majek ] altar-like installation, where Yoruba spirituality and family memory merge with queer desire, making inheritance a site of fugitivity as much as belonging. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This year’s curated exhibition, “We Come to This Place for Magic” gathers new works by six queer artists who create alternatives that sit in and alongside the canonical world, challenging any dominant narrative of what the “world” is. Especially in a moment when the wider world feels precarious, these works invite us to imagine and inhabit spaces where other ways of living, loving and being together are not only possible — but already here. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ By holding these artists’ worlds together and in tension, we see how queer world-building itself is an act of magic. But here, magic is not illusion but proof for us all: the world can be made, unmade and made again anew. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #queeriosities2025

Queeriosities (Art and Makers Fair) 26-28 September • Copeland Gallery, Peckham ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Tickets and info via link in bio ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In Theo Dunne’s [@theodunne.art ] painting, queer time appears as mythic fragments that refuse linear endings, staging grief and fantasy as overlapping states of transition. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This year’s curated exhibition, “We Come to This Place for Magic” gathers new works by six queer artists who create alternatives that sit in and alongside the canonical world, challenging any dominant narrative of what the “world” is. Especially in a moment when the wider world feels precarious, these works invite us to imagine and inhabit spaces where other ways of living, loving and being together are not only possible — but already here. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ By holding these artists’ worlds together and in tension, we see how queer world-building itself is an act of magic. But here, magic is not illusion but proof for us all: the world can be made, unmade and made again anew. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #queeriosities2025

Queeriosities (Art and Makers Fair) 26-28 September • Copeland Gallery, Peckham ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Tickets and info via link in bio ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In a debut presentation by Lawrence Cuevas [@lawrencecuevas.other ], porous forms, body and landscape blur, the clay embracing touch and vulnerability as a reminder that world-making is also an act of radical openness. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This year’s curated exhibition, “We Come to This Place for Magic” gathers new works by six queer artists who create alternatives that sit in and alongside the canonical world, challenging any dominant narrative of what the “world” is. Especially in a moment when the wider world feels precarious, these works invite us to imagine and inhabit spaces where other ways of living, loving and being together are not only possible — but already here. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ By holding these artists’ worlds together and in tension, we see how queer world-building itself is an act of magic. But here, magic is not illusion but proof for us all: the world can be made, unmade and made again anew. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #queeriosities2025

Queeriosities (Art and Makers Fair) 26-28 September • Copeland Gallery, Peckham ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Tickets and info via link in bio ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The work of Devynn Barnes [@dev_inthepaint ] transforms archival fragments into portals of Afro-surreal conjure, restoring suppressed Black queer presence and imagining landscapes of collective homecoming. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This year’s curated exhibition, “We Come to This Place for Magic” gathers new works by six queer artists who create alternatives that sit in and alongside the canonical world, challenging any dominant narrative of what the “world” is. Especially in a moment when the wider world feels precarious, these works invite us to imagine and inhabit spaces where other ways of living, loving and being together are not only possible — but already here. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ By holding these artists’ worlds together and in tension, we see how queer world-building itself is an act of magic. But here, magic is not illusion but proof for us all: the world can be made, unmade and made again anew. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #queeriosities2025