Mapping Queer Worlds: Jeremy Smith
Sat
27
Sat 27 Jun 10:00 AM
The Workshop Hub
General Admission
120 Mins
June
This workshop invites participants to draw their lives as maps shaped through lived experience.
Using approaches drawn from counter-cartography, participants will map places that hold queer significance across Sydney or within personal memory. The session explores drawing as a way of producing knowledge and tracing connections between self and space.
About the Artist:
Jeremy W. Smith is a Sydney-based queer artist, curator, and researcher whose practice weaves together drawing, cartography, and queer historiography to illuminate hidden narratives and reimagine how identity is mapped across time, space, body, and mind. He is currently completing a PhD in Fine Arts at UNSW Art & Design, where his research project, Drawing Queer Counter-Cartography, unfolds as a series of large-scale, hand-drawn maps that construct a profoundly personal and politically charged visual archive of queer life in Sydney. Smith is also one of the inaugural curators at Qtopia Sydney, Australia’s first LGBTQIA+ museum, and a founding member and curator at DrawSpace, Sydney’s first gallery dedicated to drawing.
Beyond the studio, Smith is an active curator, arts writer, and community advocate. His curatorial practice spanning exhibitions such as Queer Drawing, We’re Here, We’re Queer, and Detail extends his cartographic impulse into the gallery space, where he creates platforms for queer voices and experimental drawing practices. His published writings further position drawing as a site of cultural resistance, intimacy, and queer knowledge-making.
Using approaches drawn from counter-cartography, participants will map places that hold queer significance across Sydney or within personal memory. The session explores drawing as a way of producing knowledge and tracing connections between self and space.
About the Artist:
Jeremy W. Smith is a Sydney-based queer artist, curator, and researcher whose practice weaves together drawing, cartography, and queer historiography to illuminate hidden narratives and reimagine how identity is mapped across time, space, body, and mind. He is currently completing a PhD in Fine Arts at UNSW Art & Design, where his research project, Drawing Queer Counter-Cartography, unfolds as a series of large-scale, hand-drawn maps that construct a profoundly personal and politically charged visual archive of queer life in Sydney. Smith is also one of the inaugural curators at Qtopia Sydney, Australia’s first LGBTQIA+ museum, and a founding member and curator at DrawSpace, Sydney’s first gallery dedicated to drawing.
Beyond the studio, Smith is an active curator, arts writer, and community advocate. His curatorial practice spanning exhibitions such as Queer Drawing, We’re Here, We’re Queer, and Detail extends his cartographic impulse into the gallery space, where he creates platforms for queer voices and experimental drawing practices. His published writings further position drawing as a site of cultural resistance, intimacy, and queer knowledge-making.