HOLBURNE PRIDE Celebrating our Creative Community Friday 14 & Saturday 15 June The Holburne Museum is celebrating PRIDE for the first time... Over two days our PRIDE event aims to increase the engagement of the local community with Queer arts and culture through talks, creative workshops, films, cabaret, and silent discos. Exclusively programmed by the...
Chris Stephens will be in-conversation with a member of the Holburne Future Collective. Their discussion will cover the role that museums, exhibitions and those running them can play in shaping how Queer art is perceived and consider the opportunities and challenges such institutions present in promoting Queer Art. With sixteen years of experience at Tate...
Maggie Hamblings portrait of Derek Jarman that now sits within the Holburne Collection will be the focus of this lecture, alongside the broader subject of queer art. Bob Mills is Professor of Medieval Studies and Head of the History of Art Department at UCL. Between 2015 and 2018 he directed qUCL, UCL’s LGBTQ+ research network, and previously he was...
During these talks a member of the Holburne Future Collective will interview a panel of young queer artists. Featuring Matthew Dennis and Eryn McDonald the panel will give each speaker the opportunity to talk for fifteen minutes and will have a particular focus on the challenges and opportunities which young queer artists face. Giving viewers...