Trans+ art workshop: 42 Childhood Memories - Southwark

42 Childhood Memories is a collaborative artwork of Trans+ remembering and remembrance by Marty Davies and Xavier White. 

The work features a collection of small canvases. Each canvas will be painted a solid colour representing the favourite childhood colour of a Trans+ participant, with their name and current age inscribed on the back.

Some canvases will be absent from the completed piece, symbolising the Trans+ children who didn’t get the chance to grow up and share their favourite colour. Abusive home and school environments, abuse on social media, a failing healthcare system, and hate crime all contribute towards this tragic loss.

The vibrant, distinct colours of the canvases will form a collective mosaic of the Trans+ experience. The work will reflect on unity, and invite solidarity with the wider LGBTQIA+ community, reminding us we are stronger together.

As a community regularly dehumanised in politics, media and law, this workshop will use art both to heal and to remind the world of our humanity.

For the creation of this new work, the artists, Marty Davies and Xavier White, are working with Wellbeing Practitioner, Sabah Chourdrey, who will guide participants through a workshop -  creating a safe space for memory, mark making and community healing to access childhood memories. 

All materials will be provided, and there will be plenty of time to paint your small square canvas and leave your mark on the project. 

This event is for anyone who identifies as Trans+. What does this mean? People who describe themselves as trans and non-binary, and indeed any way people choose to describe their gender outside of the binary. We are also inclusive of intersex people who have natural diversity in sex characteristics.