Queer Eutopia explored the idea of a more inclusive future with LGBTQIA+ young people from The Lee Cooper Foundation, and staff at Northern. Over a series of workshops, Emma in collaboration with artist Leo Soph Welton experimented with collage, planting, poetry, photography, drawing/painting and placard making.

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Together, these ideas and creations inspired two artworks for Prescot and Newton-le-Willows train stations. The murals designed by Emma platforms LGBTQIA+ voices from satellite towns between Liverpool and Manchester and both artworks carry a positive message about supporting each other to create safer, more welcoming places to live.

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The title Queer Eutopia comes from the realistic or attainable concept of a good place; the word ‘utopia’, on the other hand, is a place that does not exist.

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Commissioned by Heart of Glass. Supported by Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programme. Supported by Homotopia. Created in collaboration with Northern, Lee Cooper Foundation and Newton Community Centre.