Their work spans installation, performance and moving-image using museum archives, histories, and their own encounters as a queer adoptee to examine childhood, community, and alternative fictions.
Museum of the Home 2025
Christmas Banister unifies the queer experience of kin with the marginal state of domestic thoroughfares. The work is an imagined alternative to a Christmas tree made up of balusters from stairways and corridors drawn by members of the London queer community, spindles from the Museum of the Home’s archive, and Birch’s own drawings.
The Roundhouse
2025
Queering our understanding of what a partnership can be, Bedfellows tests where the lines of parental, platonic, romantic, and sexual relationships blur, diverge, and intersect. It follows three relationships held between two bodies, asking the question ‘Who are we to each other?’.
Both a dualogue in form and in process, Bedfellows sought to apply design thinking to narrative, and literary approaches to set design through a collaborative approach in which writer and designer occupied both roles simultaneously.
Dorich House Museum
2024
A curated display of research, installations, and series of participatory events exploring the speculative lavender marriage of Dora Gordine and Richard Hare, hinted at by former friends and acquaintances of the couple (albeit unwilling to go on the record).
2024
Capturing the conflicted identity of an imagined queer club queue through the use of overlayed audio and footage from five flagship clubs in London.
This 5 minute short poses as a liminal space where queerness is visible and vulnerable to the eyes of the general public.
2024
A set of street chairs and short film, designed in response to a finding trip back to China. Through mirroring a life that could have been by staging conversations with three other Chinese adoptees, this debut short offers a glimpse into the complicated feelings of loss, humour, and community, that emerge within the interracial adoptee community.
2018
Ceremonial vessels cast from rocks found in Birch’s birth-village in Hunan and adoptive home in London.
honeybirchstudio
Honey Birch is an emerging artist-designer exploring the construction of identity through space, story, and collective memory.
Their work spans installation, performance and moving-image using museum archives, histories, and their own encounters as a queer adoptee to examine childhood, community, and alternative fictions.
In 2024 Honey was selected for the Roundhouse Film Fund, and was the recipient of the Wiggin Emerging Filmmaker Award. Their debut short film, “Little Chairs, Little Conversations” [2025] was selected for several festivals including Lift Off Beijing & Queer East 2025. Honey’s work has been commissioned by Roundhouse, Dorich House Museum and Museum of the Home, and they currently lecture at Oxford Brookes University.
Commendations
BFI Future Film
Best Documentary
Nominee
2025
Wiggin Emerging
Film-maker Award
2024
Fosters & Partners
Highly Commended:
Social & Critical Design
2023
Young Furniture Makers
Short-list “Beech Box”
2023
Roundhouse Poetry
Slam Finalist
2018
Poetry Society
Cold Fire Award
2017
Grants/Awards
Roundhouse
Film Fund
2024
Grand Plan Fund
2024
Diversity Matters
Museum of London
Grant
2023
Solo Exhibitions
Here, SomewhereDorich House Museum
2024
Group Exhibitions
The Dyke Archive
Machina Kollektiv
Outhouse Gallery
2025
Freeyard Splinter Collective
Safehouse 1
2023
All On ShowLondon Design Festival
Hoxton Arches
2023
Film Festivals
Flare
BFI
2025
Future Film
BFI
2025
Queer East
ICA
2025
London Fringe!
Queer Film & Arts Fest
2024
Education
BA Product and Furniture Design
Kingston School of Art
2023
Art Foundation Diploma
Central Saint Martins
2019
Roundhouse Poetry
Collective
2019