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In the Guardian today - Great article about my film Everyone Involved and my wider practice 👀🗞️ LINK IN BIO

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/sep/03/britains-first-gay-anthem-lgbtq-protest-band-reunited-song-everyone-involved?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Big thanks to @louisstaples & @alexneedham74 taken in God's House Tower by @iangiles

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A Flick through - David Shenton: Kindly Ease The Tension - designed with 🩷 Modern Activity @modernactivity for @norwichcastle by @iangiles

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I’d love to see you at my Private View of Everyone Involved on Oct 27th at Queer Britain - You need to RSVP - link in my bio 👆👆 I made a multiscreen film with the band who recorded the first gay protest song onto vinyl back in 1972 🩷💛🩷💛 by @iangiles

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COMING SOON: EVERYONE INVOLVED 🎵

We’re excited to host Everyone Involved by Ian Giles at Queer Britain.

Featuring A Gay Song, recorded in 1972 and widely regarded as the first LGBTQ+ protest song on vinyl, Ian has reformed the original band to re-record the song 52 years later.

This immersive exhibition is a celebration of queer history, collective memory and the living legacy of gay liberation.

📅 23 October – 21 November
📍Queer Britain
🎟️ £10/Pay What You Can donation
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#queerbritain #lgbtq #gay #queer @iangiles A textile wall installation with various patterns and a black-and-white photo serves as the backdrop for two televisions on blue carpeted steps, featuring text promoting Ian Giles' exhibition "Everyone Involved," opening October 23 at Queer Britain. by @iangiles

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People and art seen at Middlesbrough Art Week / Turner Prize

Turner Prize @mimauseful Marguerite Humeau

Turner Prize @mimauseful Kira Freije 🏆 Congrats to @helen_welford_ @daniellekayash @elnrmrgn and all the @mimauseful family 💛

Threshold Katie Schwab + @andyholdenphotos

Threshold @laurengodfreystudio

@artlicks 🫶 @elnrmrgn

Erin Dickson

Andy Holden

Jeremy Deller 💩 taken in Middlesbrough by @iangiles

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Join trailblazing artist David Shenton and artist Ian Giles for a special conversation celebrating the London launch of the book David Shenton: Kindly Ease the Tension.

📆Saturday 10th October
🕑 2pm
📍 Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration @qbcentre
🇬🇧 London - 1 Myddelton Passage
London EC1R 1AG
👋 Sign up via the Quentin Blake Centre website

On October 10th, Ian and David will explore his extraordinary five-decade career; during which he has produced LGBTQ+ cartoons and comics alongside monumental textiles and his ongoing activism across queer life and culture.

Conceived by Ian Giles and designed with Modern Activity, the publication is less of a conventional monograph and more like an intimate encounter with David’s working process and archive. The publication also includes a transcribed conversation between David and Ruth Battersby, Senior Curator of Costume and Textiles at Norfolk Museums Service.

Since the 1970s, David’s output includes publishing the world’s first full-length gay graphic novel Stanley and the Mask of Mystery; his cartoons regularly appeared in Gay News and Capital Gay and later in The Guardian.

This conversation accompanies Queer As Comics on display in our Coal Stores Gallery until 1 November. The event will cover themes explored in the exhibition.

Kindly Ease the Tension accompanies the first major retrospective of David Shenton’s work at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, curated by Ian Giles with Ruth Battersby on until January 2027.

Come and hear directly from David about the stories behind the work and celebrate the launch of this unique new publication. taken in Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration by @iangiles

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💪🏻Progress report - One month to go until my exhibition opens at Queer Britain - this is about an 8th of the massive curtain I am making for the space 💜 Watch her grow 💪🏻 by @iangiles

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COMING SOON 🎶

Artist Ian Giles has been exploring the Queer Britain collection for an upcoming exhibition opening this October.

Working across film, performance and social practice, Ian’s work explores queer histories, collective memory and language, bringing archival research into conversation with personal testimony and shared experience.

At Queer Britain, he’s been delving into an important piece of LGBTQ+ musical history from the early days of the Gay Liberation Movement and what that history means more than 50 years later.

We’ll be revealing more next week!

Open from 23 October at Queer Britain.
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#queerbritain #lgbtq #lesbian #gay #bisexual #trans #queer by @iangiles

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Table one, order in: two beef, one fish, one special by @iangiles

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Piles again by @iangiles

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I’ve got piles taken in Studio Voltaire by @iangiles

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Pantone colour of the year: IKEA Voltaire 💙 by @iangiles

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