QUEER AQUEER ART, From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between is the new book by Gemma Rolls-Bentley, forwarded by Sir Isaac Julien.

“We love and strongly recommend this beautifully curated book. Celebrating the massive and lasting global impact of LGBTQIA+ artists, a book like this is long overdue!”

– Russell Tovey & Robert Diament, co-hosts of Talk Art podcast

Celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community with this vivid and dynamic collection of artworks that charts queer voices from around the world.

The twentieth century saw key shifts for the LGBTQIA+ community across the western world: from the Stonewall uprising to the first pride parades and homosexuality law reforms. The years following these milestone moments have seen queer life face new challenges, celebrations, injustices and liberations.

As ever, this journey has been closely mapped by art and culture. Artists working across all mediums – from painting, performance, digital and beyond – have captured key moments impacting the LGBTQIA+ community, from the HIV/AIDS crisis and the rise of drag, to marriage equality and the fight for trans liberation.

The artists profiled in Queer Art include:

• Leading artists David Hockney, Nicole Eisenmann and Zanele Muholi
• Late greats Greer Lankton, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Tom of Finland
• Pioneers of Queer Cinema Derek Jarman and Sir Isaac Julien
• Ground-breaking photographers Nan Goldin, Ajamu X, Wolfgang Tilmans and Catherine Opie
• Contemporary art stars Sin Wai Kin, Zackary Drucker and Clifford Prince King
• Instagram sensations Shantell Martin, Jwan Yosef and Matthew Stone
• Andrew Logan, sculptor and founder of the Alternative Miss World party

With a heady curation of artworks selected by leading LGBTQIA+ curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley, this book mixes the high-brow with the low, gallery stalwarts with Instagram stars, and the racy with the fabulous. With over 150 works across thematic chapters covering Queer Spaces, Queer Bodies and Queer Power this is a unique celebration of queer life – a must-have for the LGBTQIA+ community, art lovers and anyone interested in the culture surrounding queer identity.

Gemma Rolls-Bentley has been at the forefront of contemporary art for almost two decades, working passionately to amplify the work of queer artists and provide a platform for art that explores LGBTQIA+ identity. She curates exhibitions, builds art collections and leads projects internationally. Most recently she curated the group exhibition ‘Dreaming of Home’ at Leslie Lohman Museum of Art in NYC and the Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival in London. She curated the ‘Brighton Beacon Collection’, the largest permanent display of queer art in the UK. Gemma is a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art and she has sat on the boards of numerous organisations and charities that support diversity in