Homemade Undercuts is a candid, tender and intimate new body of photographic work from Ellen Blair, celebrating hair as a canvas for queer expression and a potent symbol of kinship and queer care.
Across generations, styles, cuts, shaves, tints and experiments have been a vital part of how queer people have formed and subverted cultural, political and gender identities, in celebration and defiance, revealing our queer selves to each other and to the wider world.
Especially for those who don’t align with the gender binary at a time when gender-affirming healthcare can involve waiting times of up to four years, a haircut can take on an even deeper significance while waiting for that crucial appointment. So cuts and styles done at home, in the homes of friends or in caring community-led spaces are commonplace and become a joyful revolutionary act of solidarity.
Homemade Undercuts celebrates queer community born from a desire to create ourselves in our own image and on our own terms. A tribute to the enduring spirit of queer kinship, the show also includes work by local poets and writers, Suzanne Magee, Heather Fleming, Mícheál McCann, Benjamin Lindsay, Eva Eisherwood-Wallace, Fern Fitzpatrick & Alice Linehan.
Special launch preview: Thursday 14th November, with FREE haircuts by Fern (Paper Clips) in the gallery from 16:00 – 21:00 on a first-come-first-served basis. Join us at 18:30 for the official opening.
Age Suitability: 14+
Free admission (no registration required)
Supported by Belfast 2024.
Exhibition in partnership with PS2.
