The Uk’s Tate Galleries  … both Britain and Modern … are among the most queer-inclusive museums in the world.  They just don’t play lip service to our community but actively plan exhibitions and events that not only have visual delights we can relate to but play an important part in telling LGBTQ. history

 

Here are FOUR  queer things you should check out NOW:

Sin Wai Kin (fka Victoria Sin) was born in Toronto, Canada in 1991. They studied at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London and the Royal College of Art, London.

Sin’s practice pivots around the use of speculative fiction within performance, moving image, writing and print, to question the idealised image and the collective gaze. Identifying as mixed race and non-binary, their work creates fantasy narratives, to interrupt normative processes around issues of desire, identification, and objectification. Sin’s use of performance and particularly drag began as a means of deconstructing and challenging misogyny and racism in and outside of the queer community.

 

 

Sin Wai Kin was nominated for the prestigious  Turner Prize in 2022. The prize is awarded to a British artist for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the preceding year as determined by a jury.

There is a free exhibition of the nominee’s work at Tate Liverpool until  19 March 2023.

 

 

P.S. The Tate Gallery runs some wonderful FREE tours that are aimed at exploring the Tate Collection through the lens of gender identity and sexuality.

The next Tour dates of TATE BRITAIN are  18 February 2023 at 15.00–16.00;  25 February 2023 at 15.00–16.00; 1 March 2023 at 15.00–16.00.  They ask that you check tours are running by calling the ticket desk on the day of the tour.

There are also LGBTQIA+ Tours  at TATE MODERN : they run 18 February 2023 at 15.00–16.00;  25 February 2023 at 15.00–16.00; 1 March 2023 at 15.00–16.00.

 

From home you can  \check out online  Five Stories of Queer Artists  The relationships we share with one another can shape our lives, our work, and even history itself. Here are five important queer relationships which influenced the canon of art.

They are SAPPHO;  JOE ORTON & KENNETH HALLIWELL;  CLAUDE CAHUN AND MARCEL MOORE; CHARLES RICKETTS AND CHARLES SHANNON; . DORA CARRINGTON

 

 

And finally: LGBTQ+ Icons at Tate Britain – Sasha Velour, Munroe Bergdorf and Leo Kalyan In thsi vidreo below Three LGTBQ+ advocates visit Tate Britain to interpret and make sense of artworks on the basis of their own identities and experiences. Discover them reveal LGBTQ+ histories and identities of works in the collection. 

 

 

https://www.tate.org.uk/