GFEST 2011: CROSS-ARTS and CROSS-LONDON

Press release GFEST – Gaywise FESTival, ‘London’s LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) and queer cross – art festival for all’, has announced 2011 programme that reflects high artistic quality. This year the festival will take place across various London venues including The Dreamspace Gallery, Prince Charles Cinema, The Cockpit…

British Painter Maggi Hambling

Maggie Hambling (born 1945) is a British painter, sculptor and queer woman. Maggi Hambling CBE discusses and reveals new work in this short documentary filmed in her London studio.

Denmark: Collective Feminist Reading Project

Join a collective reading of ‘Jeg vil have en statsminister…’ two days before the general election! The reading takes place September 13, 2011 at 4.45pm at Rådhuspladsen in Copenhagen and at Rådhuspladsen in Aarhus.

The Boy & The Twins by Åsa Johannesson

The exhibition The Boy and the Twins by Åsa Johannesson runs through September 18 2011, at Fotogalleriet [format], Kulturhuset Mazetti, Friisgatan15B, 214 21 Malmö, Sweden

Lesbian Art Herstory: Lesbians Seeing Lesbians

Lesbians Seeing Lesbians: building community in early feminist photography
focuses on three of the most prominent photographers of this early generation: Tee A. Corinne (1943-2006: St. Petersburg, Florida), JEB (Joan E. Biren, b.1944: Washington D.C.), and Cathy Cade (b.1942: Honolulu, Hawaii). And the works of contemporary lesbian photographers: Cass Bird, Angela Jimenez, Zanele Muholi and Catherine Opie.

Art Herstory: Tamara de Lempicka

Portrait de Madame M. by Tamara de Lempickaset a new world auction record for the artist when it sold for $6,130,500 at Christie’s in 2009.

Art Herstory: Dora Carrington

Dora Carrington painted only for her own pleasure, did not sign her works, and rarely exhibited them, hence she was not well known as a painter during her lifetime.

Photographer Marta Kochanek’s Visual Portfolio

Marta Kochanek’s Visual Portfolio from luke ryder on Vimeo. Marta Kochanek, born in Poland, based in Coventry UK, is a freelance photographer, curator and queer activist. Her photographs has been shown several times in both group and solo exhibitions, including Mall Galleries in London, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery as…

Self Portrait: Lilian Kleiner

Jerusalem Inanna – A documented journey of one Self portrait by Liliana Kleiner, Music: “Luminoza Lux” by Gabriela Flores Painter and lesbian Liliana Kleiner is orginally from Buenos Aires Argentina, where she learned the art of painting in oils in the tradition of the old European masters. She has lived…

Lover Other by Barbara Hammer

Still from the short film Lover Other by Barbara Hammer In September 2011 Barbara Hammer’s new film Lover Other will be screened at the 11th International Eressos Women’s Festival, Skala Eressos Lesvos Island, Greece. Lover Other Barbara Hammer’s collage of photographs, documents, interviews, lyrical passages and dramatised scenes recalls the…