CURATED BY DAN DE LA MOTTE, WITH ASSOCIATE CURATION FROM ANDREW LUMSDEN & GRAHAM MCKERROW
‘a powerful, evocative journey through the past that somehow manages to land us slap back in the present’
In the 1970s and 1980s Britain’s leading gay press was Gay News and Capital Gay. These papers reported on the most pertinent issues of the day, from police raids and entrapment, to the HIV/AIDS crisis and Section 28. Despite the severity and urgency of these topics, both papers employed cartoons and cartoonists to display a humanity and warmth that sometimes columns of words cannot convey. These works are at times poignant and angry, and at other times mischievous and playful. They encapsulate the queer identity perfectly; on how to be resilient and survive, but how to be silly and impish also.
This exhibition focusses on major news stories that the artists have illustrated, as well as more general themes around gay and lesbian identity and community from the pivotal decades of the 1970s and 1980s.
With a wrap-around festival of events tba.
Featuring works by David Shenton, Kate Charlesworth, Tony Reeves, Jennie Simmons, Christopher Street.
OPEN THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS, 12-6, SEPT - DEC 2022
ENQUIRIES: Dan de la Motte, Curator – dandlmh@yahoo.co.uk // 07725402263 // @Dandelamotte