I've been very excited to view this exhibition, not only for inspiration for my coursework but for personal reasons to. Reading up about each piece of artwork has made me appreciate the movements and acts of courage members of society have done for the LGBTQ+ community to get to where we are today which i haven't really thought about before. I would like to use a few artists from this exhibition as a stepping stone to progress my experimentation as well as including contextual studies and reasoning behind my work, which is the area I feel is lacking in my journal so far.
"Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea" - Derek Jarman: At your own Risk: A Saint's Testament, 1992
"A public poll by 'yougov' in 2015 found that 23% of British people choose something other than 100% to define their sexuality. The figure rose to 49% among 18-24 year olds.
A few messages from the public -
