Event essentials
Gallery Oldham’s programme regularly champions artists who push beyond simple nostalgia, and Peter Yankowski’s
Ancestors Awakening brings a lush, ritual energy that many queer audiences will recognise: found family,
myth‑making, and the pleasure of crafting identities from fragments of the past. Drawing on Neolithic
patterns and landscapes, the works invite viewers to imagine queer kinships across time—what would our
ancestors recognise in us, and what might we gift back? The exhibition sits within Gallery Oldham’s warm,
community‑centred building, which means good access and space for slower looking. It’s a lovely winter
trip for LGBTQ+ folks who enjoy art that’s both tactile and contemplative, and a reminder that our creative
lineages are wide, weird and wonderful.