A Short History of Facial Hair : David McDiarmid

A Short History of Facial Hair : David McDiarmid

In 2011 Sally Gray worked in collaboration with curator Magda Keaney, at the Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, to retrieve and re-present David McDiarmid’s A Short History of Facial Hair. The piece was originally presented by McDiarmid, as a spoken essay accompanied by projection of 35mm slides from his personal archive, at the political forum ‘HIV: Towards a Paradigm’, in Melbourne in April 1993. Following McDiarmid’s death of AIDS-related conditions in 1995, the essay was published, without images, in the gay press and scholarly publications. Gray and Keaney arranged for the original 35mm slides, in the McDiarmid estate archive, to be digitised. Berlin based film-maker Hermano Silva was engaged to direct a short digital film with voiceover by John Nasser, co-produced by Gray and London College of Fashion. The film was presented at The Fashion Space Gallery accompanied by a selection of McDiarmid’s ‘Rainbow Aphorisms’, in an exhibition curated by Gray and Keaney.

Review

The work of gay artist David McDiarmid is still illuminating

Stephanie Bunbury (2011) “Fabulous Poster Boy for Queer Activism”, The Age, Oct 21 2011

Fabulous Poster Boy for Queer Activism

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