British Art Studies is an innovative space for new peer-reviewed scholarship on all aspects of British art.

Issue 27 – July 2025

Queer Art in Britain since the 1980s Edited by Fiona Anderson, Flora Dunster, Theo Gordon and Laura Guy

Detail of a black and white photograph. A woman wearing large, white angel wings sits intimately on the shoulders of another, who is wearing mesh wings adorned with metal objects. Magazines, a sex toy and a toy alligator are strewn on the floor below, while an artwork depicting three angels is projected onto the wall. — Tessa Boffin, *Angelic Rebels: Lesbians Have Safer Sex* (dithered detail), 1989, archival inkjet print, 111.5 × 76.2 cm. Digital image courtesy of the Estate of Tessa Boffin and the Gupta+Singh Archive, London, and Hales, London and New York / Photo: JSP Art Photography (all rights reserved).

INTRODUCTION

Introduction: Queer Art in Britain since the 1980s

Fiona Anderson
Flora Dunster
Theo Gordon
Laura Guy

VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

Mumtaz Karimjee: Making Visible

By Alice Correia

ARTICLE

Naughty Nuns and Saucy Sisters: The Queer Nun at the End of the 1980s

By Thomas Elliott

ARTICLE

“More than Friends”: Bisexual Perspectives in Roberta M. Graham’s Fallen Angel and Helen Chadwick’s Lofos Nymphon

By Naomi Pearce

ARTICLE

“Gay” Image-Making from Britain and India: Sunil Gupta in the Late 1980s

By Gregory Salter

ARTICLE

Living Proof: Tracing HIV/AIDS Cultural Production in the North East of England

By Fiona Anderson

CURATORIAL ESSAY

Do Not Tape Over: AIDS Activist Videos in the United Kingdom

By Ed Webb-Ingall

ARTICLE

Ecstatic Antibodies: Art, Activism, and HIV/AIDS in “British” Art History

By Theo Gordon

ARTICLE

Jay Prosser and St. Pelagius the Penitent at the Transgender Film Festival, or What Happened to Trans British Art?

By Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell

ARTICLE

Rewriting the Future: Tessa Boffin’s The Knight’s Move

By Flora Dunster

INTERVIEW

Real Lemon: An Intergenerational Dialogue on Lesbian Tradition

Interview by Sarah-Joy Ford
with Rachael Field

INTERVIEW

Revisiting Loss of Heat through Intergenerational Collaboration

Interview by Beth Bramich
with Noski Deville
and Nicola Singh

INTERVIEW

Correspondences and Fractures: Lesbians Talk Queer Formations

Interview by Laura Guy
with Cherry Smyth

ONE OBJECT

The Practice and Politics of Archival Labour in Histories of Queer Art in Britain

Convened by Fiona Anderson

ARTIST COLLABORATION

Holes Big Enough for Women: Portals, Time Benders, and Queer Networks

By Liz Murray

CONVERSATION PIECE

Instituting Queer Art in Britain

Convened by Theo Gordon
and Laura Guy