Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterQueer London artist Georg Meyer-Wiel‘s fascination with exploring masculinity through a rich variety of media comes through so brilliantly in his new work in his latest solo exhibition PUNCH which opens this week at London’s Fitzrovia Gallery and presents new drawings on paper, exploring the subject of boxing and wrestling. Since graduating … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThere can be no better role model to inspire one for the new year (or any year for that matter) than the multi-talented irrepressible Hollywood photographer Michael Childers. A man I am fortunate enough to call my friend and although we are about the same age, he runs rings around me on how … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterFour years we came across a remarkable queer French artist called Marc Martin whose Exhibition ‘Public Toilets, Private Affairs’ was opening at Berlin’s LGBT Schwules Museum. He was bringing the topic of ‘cottaging ” right out into the open with this exhibition book that was almost like a celebration of this illicit activity. He had … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThis weekend’s your last chance to catch Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty in the Barbican Gallery in London. It is the first major UK exhibition of French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) in over 50 years. One of the most provocative voices in postwar modern art, Dubuffet rebelled against conventional ideas of beauty, hoping to capture the poetry … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterBloolips were a theatre troupe formed in London in 1977 by Bette Bourne. They created funny, camp shows with titles such as Lust in Space, Slung Back & Strapless and Get Hur. The brochure by Paul Shaw that accompanies the exhibition, states that “The drag was known at the time as radical drag, in … Continue reading
