Supported by: LUSH Liverpool & Homotopia  

Please ask a member of staff if you can’t find the exhibition; it’s on the third floor, accessible via the stairs or lift, with assistance from the wonderful LUSH team! Open daily, 1pm – 4pm.

Please note, the exhibition will be closed on Tuesday 18th and Tuesday 25th November.

For marginalised communities, rest is often the first thing denied to us. We are called to fight, to represent, to resist, everywhere we go. But to rest is to reclaim our bodies, our minds, our spirits. To rest is to resist the systems that exhaust us. 

This exhibition creates a space where rest is not indulgence, but necessity. A space to pause, to soften, to gather, to imagine other ways of being. Through art, play, and care, Rest as Resistance reclaims rest as a form of resistance, for queer and trans lives, for disabled lives, for Black and Brown lives, for all lives lived at the margins. 

Alongside the exhibition, set workshops will take place in the space, inviting visitors to explore rest in different forms, playful, embodied, shared, and sacred. 

Here, Rest is protest. Rest is healing. Rest is freedom.