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Summers', Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival, (1990); âBeauty and the Beastâ, Tin Sheds Gallery, The University of Sydney (1991); âThe Phallus and its Functionsâ, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney (1992); âStormy Weatherâ, national touring exhibition (1992); âYou Are Hereâ, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne and CACSA, Adelaide (1993); âThe Streets as Art Galleries â Walls Sometimes Speak: Poster Art in Australiaâ, The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (1993); âLeather Pride Week Exhibitionâ, The Warehouse, Sydney (1993); âNine Artistsâ Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney (1993); âThe Australian Scarfâ, Hyde Park Barracks (1993); âFighting Back: The Art of AIDS Educationâ, The Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra (1993); âDeathâ, Ivan Dougherty Gallery (1993); âMardi Gras 1993â, Barry Stern Gallery (1993).
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Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney and several regional galleries in Australia. Gray also arranged for deposit of the artist's personal papers regarding his life and work in The Mitchell Library of The State Library of NSW. As custodian of the artist's creative legacy, Gray has researched, brokered and curated a number of exhibitions of McDiarmid's work including the major retrospective exhibition, âDavid McDiarmid: When This You See Remember Meâ, held at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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influence of McDiarmid's artistic practice and his political activism. McDiarmid was one of the subjects of composer Lyle Chan's String
Quartet: 'An AIDS Activist's Memoir In Music'. The movement called 'Don't Leave Me This Way' memorialises the role the composer played as part of McDiarmid's medical team. This musical movement was performed at the McDiarmid retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria in July 2014, preceded by a forty-minute conversation between the composer and the former Judge of the High Court of Australia the Hon.
200:. He was recognised in this period for his support of lesbian contributions to the culture and design aesthetic of the Mardi Gras parade, party and festival. Among other creative contributions, he designed a large-scale street parade sculpture based on the Mexican Day of the Dead with members of the HIV Living Group for the 1992 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. The graphics from his 1992 Safe Sex posters which were also subsequently enlarged to form gigantic moving figures for the Mardi Gras parade.
90:, Sydney in 1976. The drawings and collages explored gay male life and sexuality, both in and out of the closet. The following year, McDiarmid visited the United States, where he travelled extensively on the east and west coasts between March and October; in particular the gay communities of the Castro in San Francisco and Christopher Street area in Lower Manhattan, New York. His subsequent work was influenced by his embrace of the gay male subcultures of these cities; notably
26:. From its inception, McDiarmid's art career encompassed, as both subject and inspiration, gay male sexuality, politics and urban subcultures. His creative techniques included: collage, painting, drawing, calligraphy, mosaic, installation, various forms of print-making, sculpture and artist's books. He was a graphic designer, designer and fabric painter for women's and men's fashion, and an artist and creative director for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras street parades.
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romantic love and the emergence of HIV/AIDS. This work was exhibited in 1984 when he returned to Sydney for the one-person show 'David McDiarmid: New Work' at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. That year, McDiarmid was included in another group exhibition, 'The
Leather Show', at the Crafts Council Gallery and in 1985, McDiarmid exhibited as part of the group exhibition 'Gay Mardi Gras Exhibition 1985: The Print Source', along with
22:(1952â1995) was an artist, designer and political activist, recognised for his prominent and sustained artistic engagement in issues relating to gay male identity and HIV/AIDS. He is also known for his involvement in the gay liberation movement of the early 1970s, when he was the first person arrested at a gay rights protest in Australia, as well as his artistic direction of the
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designer designing all the posters for his own exhibitions and those of Peter Tully. He designed posters and print collateral for the Sydney Gay and
Lesbian Mardi Gras in 1986, 1988 and 1990, as well as posters for Pride and Sleaze Ball dance parties, AIDS candlelight vigils, World AIDS Day and the ACON safe sex poster series of 1992.
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sexual and cultural politics of AIDS, 'Kiss of Light', was held at the Syme Dodson
Gallery, Sydney in 1991. This exhibition inspired the AIDS Council of New South Wales to commission from McDiarmid a series of five safe sex and safe injecting posters which were launched at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, in April 1992.
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speaking appearances in association with the Arts Law Centre of
Australia. Shocked by the consequences for Peter Tully's creative legacy, following Tully's death in August 1992 without a legal will or an estate plan, McDiarmid asked the curator, Dr Sally Gray, to be his executor and posthumous copyright holder in 1993.
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McDiarmid's 1993 artist's book and photocopied collaged multiples titled âToxic Queenâ focused on the virulent homophobia re-energised by the AIDS epidemic and positioned McDiarmid as a leading queer artist as sensibilities changed from âgay to queerâ. David McDiarmid was also an accomplished graphic
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One of the first artists to use digital technology in the production of art, McDiarmid's digital âRainbow
Aphorismsâ were a strong presence in the exhibition âDonât Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDSâ at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, curated by Dr Ted Gott in 1994. His numerous
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In 1986, still in New York, McDiarmid was diagnosed HIV positive and decided to return to
Australia. Back in Sydney McDiarmid devoted himself to producing art which raised awareness of the AIDS epidemic and empowered those who were HIV positive. His influential one-person exhibition focussing on the
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served as an inspiration for a suite of work to which McDiarmid gave the title "Disco Kwilts", produced between 1979 and 1981, using newly available material: holographic reflective Mylar sheeting. McDiarmid exhibited in the US, including solo exhibitions at 'Childs/Dreyfus' in Chicago in 1979 and
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David McDiarmid died of AIDS related conditions on May 25, 1995. From 1996, Gray arranged bequests from the McDiarmid estate to the following public institutions: The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; The Art
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McDiarmid was conscious of his, and his generation's, artistic and political legacy as many gay artists faced premature death from HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and early 1990s. He became an advocate for effective estate planning for artists, spoke at Sydney Writers Festival on the subject in 1994 and made
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Since 1995, McDiarmid's work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions including: âAbsolutely Mardi Grasâ, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (1996); âFlesh and Blood: Family Connections in Sydneyâ (1788-1998, Museum of Sydney (1999); âRecent Acquisitions of Australian Artâ, National Gallery of Victoria,
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In 1993 McDiarmid wrote the illustrated (with 35mm slide transparencies) lecture âA Short History of Facial Hairâ tracing his personal, political and sexual history âfrom camp to gay to queerâ. This was presented at the Melbourne conference âAIDS: Towards a Paradigmâ (and later developed into the
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Born in Hobart, Tasmania, McDiarmid later moved with his family to Melbourne, where he studied film, art history and illustration at Swinburne College of Technology (now Swinburne University of Technology) between 1969 and 1970. In the early 1970s, McDiarmid joined Melbourne Gay Liberation, later
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In February 1983 McDiarmid exhibited at the Crafts Council of Australia Gallery in Sydney, the catalogue for which, included the following statement by McDiarmid: âIâm interested in popular culture. My work is in the intersection between folk art, womenâs art (needlepoint, patchwork quilts) and
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In 2017-18 McDiarmid's âRainbow Aphorismsâ appeared throughout the London Underground transport network as part of âArt on the Undergroundâ. The project was initiated by Studio Voltaire London and Dr Sally Gray for the McDiarmid estate. The project also included display of McDiarmid's âRainbow
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David McDiarmid was inducted into the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras âHall of Fameâ in 2000. His life and work also lives on in the work of others: Photographer and performer William Yang's published books, performances and films such as 'Friends of Dorothy' and 'Sadness' pay tribute to the
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David McDiarmid one-person shows brokered, curated, or co-curated by Dr Sally Gray include: âDavid McDiarmid: A Short History of Facial Hairâ, The Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London (2011); âDavid McDiarmid: Rainbow Aphorismsâ, Neon Parc, Melbourne
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McDiarmid's last group exhibition was âAustralian Perspecta 1995â, a survey of contemporary art, curated by Judy Annear at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. His huge rainbow âQâ inserted into the tympanum of the gallery's neo-classical façade was McDiarmid's last gesture of âqueering the art
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McDiarmid's work in New York was also influenced by street and subway graffiti. In 1983â84, he produced a series of acrylic paintings on cotton with entwined calligraphy and decorative graphic forms conveying the excitement, exploitation and joy of life in the city: sex, gay rights, cruising,
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in 1973. This period saw McDiarmid hand-painting fabrics for Jackson's fashion designs. This work was retailed through Jenny Kee's fashion store Flamingo Park in Sydney's Strand Arcade and appeared (between 1975 and 1981) in the annual Flamingo Follies fashion parades held by
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