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A celebration of historic LGBTQ+ spaces at Whitechapel Gallery

Performers masqueraded as ten of London’s iconic LGBTQ+ buildings opened the reception for ‘Queer Spaces: London, 1980s-Today‘ last April at … More

contemporaryart, contemporaryphotography, gentification, hannahquinlan, lgbtq+art, londonart, premsahib, queerspaces, ralphdunn, rosiehastings, whitechapelgallery

“Let’s get physical”: ‘Shredded’, an exhibition exploring masculinities and bodybuilding by Paris-born artist Alix Marie

“Let’s get physical” says the 1981 song by Grease actress’ Olivia Newton John: in the music video we can see … More

#exhibitionlondon, alixmarie, artlondon, bodyart, bodybuilding, contemporaryart, genderperformativity, genderroles, installationart, malefragility, masculinity, queerart, romanroadgallery, toxicmasculinity

“Oozing” bodies: ‘Tender Rip’ at Auto Italia, a collaborative project by Anna McMahon and Spence Messih

“Spilling, spitting is a recurrent concept in our thought. Images ripple our minds such as a bathtub in an earthquake; … More

abstraction, annamcmahon, artlondon, autoitalialive, contemporaryart, gendernonconforming, installationart, metalwork, opacity, queer, queercurating, spencemessih, stainedglass, tenderrip, transnarratives

‘Drag: Self-Portraits and Body Politics Exhibition’: A Conversation With Curator Vincent Honoré.

Hunter Reynolds, Shhh (From ‘Patina du Prey Drag Pose Series’), 1990 / 2012. [Digital print mounted on centra]. Courtesy of … More

cindysherman, contemporaryart, curatorialpractice, decolonialism, drag culture, exhibition, gender, Haywardgallery, intersectionality, lucianocastelli, queer, queerportrait, samuelfosso, victoriasin

Free Range Photography Week One 21-25.06. 2018 : selected projects on drag culture.

  Free Range 2018’s logo. Courtesy of Free Range. Free Range is an Old Truman Brewery special project, established by … More

clubkids, contemporaryart, drag culture, editorial, emergingartists, freerangeshows, genderfluid, heteronormativity, londonart, oldtrumanbrewery, portraitphotography, queer, queerphotography, queertheory

Studio Prokopiou: a voyage inside camp sensibility and queer aesthetic.

Studio Prokopiou, Take my Picture, Marnie Scarlet, 2016. Courtesy of the artist. Studio Prokopiou is a London-based collaborative project started by … More

alternativephotography, camp, contemporaryart, kitsch, queer, queerphotography, studioprokopiou

Sundlaug, a group exhibition at CentreSpace Gallery Bristol for tired bodies and distracted minds.

Sundlaug’s logo. Courtesy of artists Beth Hadfield (@bethhadfield) and KA Bird (@__kabird). “Welcome to the Sundlaug, would you like a … More

bristol, bristolart, centrespacegallery, ceramics, contemporaryart, curatorialpractice, emergingartists, exhibition, video

The Salon by Juno Calypso at Galeria Melissa: an exploration of beauty and identity.

Ferranti F. (2018) JUNO X GERIKO. Galeria Melissa, Covent Garden, London. The Salon is an immersive art installation by London-based … More

beauty, contemporaryart, galeriamelissa, gerikofilm, identity, installationart, junocalipso

Ginger Beer: a queer art exhibition co-curated by Rowan Waller and Ben Hartley at The Island, Bristol.

As co-curators Rowan Waller  (@leafyteefy) and Ben Hartley (@ben_hart9) explained to me, “Ginger beer is cockney rhyming slang for queer, … More

bristol, bristolart, contemporaryart, lgbtq+art, lgbtq+historymonth, queerart, queergaze

North: Fashioning Identity at Somerset House. Between gender performativity and fashion.

Derrin Crawford and Demi Leigh Cruickshank in the Liver Birds, Love Magazine, Liverpool 2012 ©Alice Hawkins Somerset House has been playing … More

contemporaryart, fashion, identity, northfashioningidentity, somersethouse

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