QUEER ART

Written by

GEMMA ROLLS-BENTLEY

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Join us on Saturday 11th May, between 5&7pm to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community with this vivid collection of artworks that charts queer voices from around the world – as we welcome Gemma Rolls-Bentley to Kirkdale Bookshop for a special South London soft-launch of her book QUEER ART: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between ahead of the book’s main launch on May 15th!

The twentieth century saw key shifts for the LGBTQIA+ community across the western world: from the Stonewall uprising to the first pride parades and homosexuality law reforms. The years following these milestone moments have seen queer life face new challenges, celebrations, injustices and liberations.

As ever, this journey has been closely mapped by art and culture. Artists working across all mediums – from painting, performance, digital and beyond – have captured key moments, from the HIV/AIDS crisis and the rise of drag, to marriage equality and the fight for trans liberation. The artists include: David Hockney, Andrew Logan, Greer Lankton, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Tom of Finland, Nicole Eisenmann, Zanele Muholi, Nan Goldin & more!

With nearly 200 artworks selected by leading LGBTQIA+ curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley, this book mixes the high-brow with the low, gallery stalwarts with Instagram stars, and the racy with the fabulous. This is a unique celebration of queer life – a must-have for the LGBTQIA+ community, art lovers and anyone interested in the culture surrounding queer identity.