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.