Printmaking and LGBTQIA+ Communities
Channel: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Date: 2023-11-22

12 October 2023

This event is part of Printmaking for Change: Past and Present – the Paul Mellon Centre's new public events programme.

Join V&A curator of prints, Zorian Clayton, to explore LGBTQIA+ liberty and visibility through the varied history of printmaking. Via seventeenth-century radicals, eighteenth-century flamboyance and nineteenth-century scandal, to contemporary understandings around diverse gender and sexuality, prints and ephemera, Zorian will provide a unique snapshot into a rich and radical history. Through looking at portraits and zines celebrating pioneering activists, writers and artists, as well as highlighting significant Queer spaces in Britain through the centuries, this session will provide an overview of the considerable contribution to printmaking made by the LGBTQIA+ community and its many ancestors.