Mapping Queer Worlds: Jeremy Smith

Date: Saturday 27 June 2026

Start: 10:00:00

Location: Darlinghurst

Price: $20.00

This workshop invites participants to draw their lives as maps shaped through lived experience. Using approaches drawn from counter-cartography, participants will map places that hold queer significance across Sydney or within personal memory. The session explores drawing as a way of producing knowledge and tracing connections between self and space. Jeremy W. Smith is a Sydney-based queer artist, curator, and researcher whose practice weaves together drawing, cartography, and queer historiography to illuminate hidden narratives and reimagine how identity is mapped across time, space, body, and mind. He is currently completing a PhD in Fine Arts at UNSW Art & Design, focusing his research project, 'Drawing Queer Counter-Cartography', on a series of large-scale, hand-drawn maps of queer life in Sydney. Smith is also one of the inaugural curators at Qtopia Sydney, Australia’s first LGBTQIA+ museum, and a founding member and curator at DrawSpace, Sydney’s first gallery dedicated to drawing. His curatorial practice extends his cartographic impulse into the gallery space, creating platforms for queer voices and experimental drawing practices. The Workshop Hub, located at 301 Forbes Street, Darlinghurst, is accessible only via stairs.