Wendy Houses explores queerness, identity, and belonging through miniature installations that reimagine domestic space as sites of healing and transformation. The term "Wendy House" originates from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, where it refers to a makeshift structure where Wendy could safely heal in the imagined world of Neverland—a place of lost boys, fairies and endless possibility. Traditionally linked to gendered notions of homemaking, these artists reclaim and extend childhood play into queer spaces of resistance and possibility, challenging conventional domestic norms to open up new ways of being. Inspired by curator Davy Pittoors' own childhood in Belgium, where constructing makeshift shelters served as acts of world-building, safety and imaginative exploration, "Wendy Houses" extends this practice into the realm of contemporary art. These sculptures and dollhouses are not simply echoes of nostalgia but subversive architectural tools that challenge fixed boundaries between interior and exterior, public and private, normativity and deviance. These four queer artists — Daniel Ovalle Costal, Daisy Blower, Maciek Worosilak, and Anka Dabrowska — each transform the miniature scale into expansive terrains of meaning. Ovalle Costal’s work reimagines South London’s domestic landscapes as sites of queer utopian possibility, while Blower’s delicate nests challenge traditional narratives of domestic life, revealing the tensions and vulnerabilities within queer homemaking. Worosilak’s pieces encode queer desire, longing, and displacement into their intricate designs, while Dabrowska’s anti-structures evoke a sense of belonging forged at society’s margins. Each work invites us to reconsider the very foundations of what we understand as "home," creating spaces where queerness flourishes and rewriting the rules of domesticity to open new possibilities for living. In Wendy Houses, the notion of home remains in constant flux, reminding us that it is not a fixed entity but a living, breathing construct — one that must be continuously reimagined, rebuilt and sometimes torn down to make space for something entirely new.

- Davy Pittoors Curator

Photographs by Anka Dabrowska and Davy Pittoors