Current Exhibition

When life gives you scraps, make a quilt.

Queer art collective SCRAPS returns to the Cornerstone after their debut exhibition at Oxfordshire Artweeks.

Sometimes you can feel like all life has given you is scraps. When you face invisible battles every day, like inaccessibility and queerphobia, it can feel like you’re working with nothing.

But scraps are powerful. They can be pieced back together into something beautiful and strong and unique. The ordinary can be gorgeous.

Set up like a house to explore, this exhibition promises sensory and tactile pieces designed to make you feel, with themes of domesticity, identity, and found family.

Most of the work displayed uses found or second hand materials.

The SCRAPS Collective warmly invites you to celebrate the anniversary of its formation and see their latest group exhibition at The Cornerstone, Didcot. Expect Cake, Crafts and good Art for an evening of celebration and festivities! 

Formed in 2023, SCRAPS is a collective of Queer Disabled and/or neurodivergent artists based across Oxfordshire. After collecting a few new friends over the years, SCRAPS is now 9 strong and works across a variety of disciplines, including textiles, sculpture, printmaking, and collage.

Working collaboratively and independently, the group’s newest exhibition explores ‘Queer Domesticity.’ Queer Domesticity about being at home, making home, or performing acts of care. It’s a shelter from a queerphobic world; it’s finding (or resisting) our place in heteronormative domestic roles. It’s about sex, everything around sex- and nothing about sex at all! It’s about love: platonic, familial and romantic. It’s all the spaces we find joy in between the mundane; it’s every time we are reminded of our otherness and celebrate it. Care, rest, meals, traditions, chores, laughter, sorrow, love, comfort and safety. Queer Domesticity is all of this, none of this, and so much more – the water is intentionally murky.

Please come celebrate the group’s anniversary on Friday 20th of November, 6 pm – 8 pm at The Cornerstone! The exhibition is open now until 3 December for general viewing during the art centre’s opening hours.

You can find SCRAPS on Instagram @scraps.collective or contact us via our e-mail scrapz.collective@gmail.com . Alternatively, the event lead is E West (hello@ewestartist.co.uk) , please contact us for any questions surrounding the event.

The Cornerstone is a Step-Free venue with gender neutral and accessible toilet facilities.

Our Artists are:

• Al Hill @0palsea
• Anna Palmrock @autumnalanna 
• Beth Jones @bethjonescurator
• Claire Parker @funny_little_marks
  E West @tepidpaper
• Eden Fay @eden_fay
• Frankie Jones @coolymcartface
• Luca Hirst @commongardenpan
• Molly Palmrock @mollysartlife