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Queer Then, Now and Always

John Pegden

My practice centres around storytelling through a mix of mediums including illustration, photography, animation and 3D modelling. Queer themes are a constant thread in my work as I love designing for and with queer people and celebrating our culture and communities through creative outcomes. My final project at Central Saint Martins explored archiving as a method of storytelling using collage, interviews and print to document the joy and resilience of queer community spaces. I’m also interested in digital design and have experimented with text-based games, digital archives and physical computing projects building on what I learned during a year at UAL’s Creative Computing Institute. I'm eager to keep developing and learning as I know graduating is just the beginning of my creative practice.

My practice centres around storytelling through a mix of mediums including illustration, photogra...

'Queer Then, Now and Always', is issue one of an archival zine celebrating: queer community, protest and joy. Using collage, interviews, stickers and photography, it documents small moments of queer life from the past four months across London and Brighton. The project is grounded by visits to queer archives, community centres, exhibitions and queer history which helped shape both the content and the DIY aesthetic of the zine, inspired by protest placards and early zine culture. This is a love letter to queer spaces and a reminder that our stories deserve to be seen, shared and archived.

Final work

Photographs of the final zine bound with a fluorescent pink spiral and covered with collages of found queer media.

Final Zine

Photographs of the final zine from different perspectives documenting the spiral binding, insight to the pages, collaged front and back covers.

Queer Then, Now and Always

A brief flick through all of the pages of the zine.

A collage of queer media with pink acrylic paint filling in any blank spaces.

A1 Collage

This is one of the collages I created using found queer media, magazine cut-outs from polyester and Diva and printed photographs. This collage was used to create the visual identity of the zine through scanning, printing and re-collaging.

Research and process

Photographs showing the process of printing onto sticker vinyl, collaging page layout, scanning, and xerox printing.

Process

Four key elements of my process were: vinyl sticker printing and cutting, Xerox printing, collaging and scanning. The photographs above show a brief insight to the process of making the 'Queer Then, Now and Always' zine. Attending queer exhibitions, archives , community spaces and events were also a key part of my process in preparing content to feature inside the zine.

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Queer Then, Now and Always

'Queer Then, Now and Always', is issue one of an archival zine celebrating: queer community, protest and joy. Using collage, interviews, stickers and photography, it documents small moments of queer life from the past four months across London and Brighton. The project is grou...

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