IDENTITIES installed at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery

We are delighted to welcome Identities to its new home here at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery. Produced by Q Productions, this project was funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund and Nene Park Your Community Greenspace and originally exhibited at Nene Park.

Portrait photography Michael Aiden Photography

Identities is the brain child of Trans Non binary Teddi and Trans Female Alexa Vox. Originally in 2019 Teddi asked the question “where are the queer people” queer being a reclaimed term they use. A pivotal meeting with Alexa in 2021 then surged the project forward, thanks to the generosity of Nene Park Trust, Heritage Community Fund and Lindsay Holmes we finally were able to answer the question Teddi posed so long ago.

Identities in itself is a collection of portraits from people who have bravely shown their identity and stuck their face out there for the world to see, to stand and be counted. Identities shows the stories of current people of Peterborough queer scene and the fens and also shows the stories of ancient queers as well.

These collection of portraits are also educational with each one giving you an education on not only the inclusive flag but what a queer identity can be. The people chosen were a cross section of sexual orientations, and genders.

“We are so excited to see this at the Peterborough Museum, it really does belong with the rest of the history of Peterborough, this was the first of its kind in and around Cambridgeshire and the Fens and has sparked many a project off the back of this initial piece of work. We cannot wait for them to be proudly shown off in our Museum.”

The Identities exhibition is now a permanent feature at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery. You can find the portraits displayed along the stairway and in the corridor outside our Community Gallery on the First Floor.