Douglas Dale Exhibition

How does our identity differ from our exterior presentation? How does our history of gendered materials apply to a transgender landscape? Douglas Dale’s practice investigates these questions, revolving around the creation of Second Skins: encasing furniture in polyethylene membranes or contouring yarn to trace the grain on found wood.

They draw inspiration from camp, drag, and the club scene: spaces where a reality is the product of transgression through illusion. Proudly non-binary, they extend queering unto inanimate objects: mixing masculine and feminine materials, hard and soft, textile and sculpture.