The exhibition will present work produced between the abolition of the death penalty for sodomy in 1861 and the passing of the Sexual Offences Act in 1967 – a time of seismic shifts in gender and sexuality that found expression in the arts, as artists and viewers explored their desires, experiences and sense of self. |
With works by major artists such as Francis Bacon, Keith Vaughan, Evelyn de Morgan, Gluck, Glyn Philpot, Claude Cahun and Cecil Beaton, Queer British Art 1861-1967 will showcase the rich diversity of queer visual art and its role in society. Themes explored will include coded desires amongst the Pre-Raphaelites, representations of and by women who defied convention (including Virginia Woolf), and love and lust in sixties Soho. |