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People! Create your own artwork responding to the question, What does it mean for you to be Seen.
Add the hashtag #seen and tag the image with newlynexchange on Instagram to join our online exhibition.
Michael Craig-Martin, KID'S STUFF 1, 1973, artscouncilcollection
"How strange it is to be my present age."
#HappyBirthday #ThisIsForty
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'What does it mean for you to be seen?'
Acrylic painting of a bird's eye view of Colchester pride at Firstsite.
Newlyn Exchange SEEN
#seen #firstsiteyak #newlynexchange
This year was the first pride event I have been to. It was a wonderful day and made me feel seen. Seeing everyone there made me feel less alone and more welcome and valid in my own existence. 🏳️🌈
What does it mean for you to be seen? Pen and watercolour response to Newlyn Exchange SEEN exhibition created at last week's YAK session at Firstsite. #seen #firstsiteyak #newlynexchange
What does it mean for you to be seen? Pen and chalk response to Newlyn Exchange SEEN exhibition created at last week's YAK session at Firstsite. #seen #firstsiteyak #newlynexchange
What does it mean for you to be seen? Collage response to Newlyn Exchange SEEN exhibition created at last week's YAK session at Firstsite. #seen #firstsiteyak #newlynexchange
‘Enter Laughing', 1964 and 'Swimming', 2011, are included in the exhibition 'Seen' at newlynexchange , Penzance, 23/10/21 - 08/01/22.
'Seen', An Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme Exhibition, is co-curated by young LGBTQIA+ people from Cornwall aged between 11 – 19 working in partnership with LGBT+ charity Intercom Trust, and SHARP, Programme Producer.
Through workshops and conversation about contemporary art the young people have explored the importance of representation within art and culture and the many sides of what it means to be seen. The exhibited artworks cover the important history of reclamation, resistance, love and freedom and often explores personal experiences as well as depictions of LGBTQIA+ cultures.
Artists from the Arts Council Collection in the exhibition include:
Francis Bacon / Flo Brooks / Duncan Grant / Sunil Gupta / Maggi Hambling / David Hockney / Howard Hodgkin / Evan Ifekoya / Michael Craig-Martin / David Robilliard / P. Staff / Wolfgang Tillmans
Images by Ian Kingsnorth Photography.
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newlynexchange seen_art_collective response created at firstsiteyak today!!🏳️🌈
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Good afternoon
More photos from yesterday. I’d like to thank SHARP for inviting me to exhibit at Newlyn Art Gallery Exchange alongside the wonderful #SEEN, and Emilie Swann for curating Let The Right Ones In, and installing it so beautifully with Elly (first pic). More info in my bio.
Instagram isn’t letting me tag people here, so have tagged the images where I can.
I love #rebeldykes making friends with Claude Cahun, and untagged pics are Derek Jarman and Duncan Grant.
Two days of being part of queer art curation in Margate and Penzance, and I’m full to the brim with pride and love for my communities.
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#penzance #queerart #queercommunity #queerfamily #coastalqueers #newlynartgallery
The company I keep!
At Exchange in Penzance today, for my show, Let The Right Ones In, alongside the marvellous SEEN, with many artists including Flo Brooks and Roseanne Robertson pictured here with their work, and curated by LGBTQIA young people and SHARP.
I’ll show and tell you more tomorrow.
Photos from Newlyn Art Gallery Twitter.
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Resources and links
Artists Posters
For the Seen exhibition we commissioned 3 south west young emerging artists to produce a new artwork, responding to the question want does it mean to be seen. The posters are for sale in our shop and a percentage of sales will go towards supporting the work of the Intercom Trust LGBT+ Charity. The artists … Continued
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The Eddystone Trust is an independent organisation that was started in Plymouth in 1987 by a group of volunteers who were responding to the AIDS pandemic
https://eddystone.org.ukIntercom Trust
Our confidential LGBT helpline is 0800 612 3010. This helpline is free to call from UK mobiles and from landlines. All our helpline staff and volunteers are lesbian / gay / bisexual or trans people who are understanding, non-judgemental, understanding and sympathetic.
https://www.intercomtrust.org.uk/LGBTQIA+ Flags
Flags and symbols are very important within LGBTQIA+ communities. This selection of flags shows some of the main flags used today, there are many more in existence which cover a whole range of genders and sexualities. As with the terminology used to describe our identities the design of these flags is ever-changing. Hung from the … Continued
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