Exhibition Dates: February 2024 to present

Curator: Jeremy Smith (Curator from September 2023; Curatorial Assistant Coordinator September 2023 – April 2024; Assistant Curator from December 2025)

We’re Here, We’re Queer is an inaugural exhibition first presented in 2024 and expanded in June 2025, examining LGBTQIA+ pride, place, and culture across Australia and beyond. Through hand-drawn cartography, queer terminology, and bold visual symbolism, the exhibition brings histories often marginalised or erased into public view. Moving between local neighbourhoods and global movements, it frames pride as both a cultural practice and a political assertion of presence.

The exhibition comprises hand-drawn works by artist and curator Jeremy Smith. Works created specifically for the exhibition include Queer Elements: An LGBTQIA+ Periodic Table and Counter-map of Global LGBTQIA+ rights. The original presentation also included Pride Across Australia, a cartogram mapping pride events nationwide, accompanied by an interactive digital map documenting current LGBTQIA+ festivals. In addition, the exhibition incorporates two major drawings from Smith’s PhD research into queer cartography: Sydney: A Queer History and Gaybourhood Bubbles of Sydney.

Collectively, these works position pride as a cartographic and cultural response to historical erasure, asserting visibility through place, language, and community. In 2025, We’re Here, We’re Queer won the Museums & Galleries NSW IMAGinE Awards for Exhibition Projects – Museums & Heritage (Medium Organisations).