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LGBT+HM 2022 Politics In Art: ‘The Arc Is Long’

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“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further” – Keith Haring

2022 sees the 50th anniversary of the very first Pride March in the UK in 1972. A popular slogan of the early Gay Rights Movement (the idea of the ‘LGBT’ community was some way off) of the time was “the personal is political”, and art is probably the most individual of pastimes. So it seemed logical, as we have a National Curriculum link to our theme every year, to choose Art for 2022.

We then looked for five artists (one each to represent the L,G,B,T and ‘+’ of the community) who had used their talents for “political” ends, or expressed their orientation through their work and decided on our Five Faces for 2022. Keith Haring‘s dancing figures are a perfect example as they were used to draw attention to the growing AIDS crisis of the early 1980s. Doris Brabham Hatt and Fiore de Henriquez both fought against fascism in the 1930s. Jean-Michel Basquiat began as a graffiti artist and Mark Aguhar‘s life “and mere existence was an act of confronting white hegemony”.

Finally, as this year’s anniversary is one on a continuing and often winding journey towards full equality, which has suffered many setbacks while still moving forwards, we took ‘the arc is long’ as our tagline, from Dr Martin Luther King jnr’s quote “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice”.

“To make people free is the aim of art; therefore art for me is the science of freedom” – Joseph Beuys

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Sky Arts – Inside Art (7pm, 28th February 2022)

The wonderful Derek Jarman Protest! exhibition at @mcrartgallery is covered in @unityhousehq series Inside Art on @Sky #SkyArts. You can watch the film this Monday 28 February, 7pm on Freeview 11, Virgin Media 165, Freesat 147, Sky 130. Feat @corridanfiona @jonsavage1966 and Maggi Hambling. The exhibition runs until 10 April.

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