Artist Mark Mann brings ‘queer interior’ exhibition to Museum of Classical Archaeology
Mark Mann in his studio (Image: Marie-Laurence Boisvert)
English textile artist Mark Mann is to open an exhibition of new art at Cambridge‘s Museum of Classical Archaeology inspired by the homes of gay men prior to homosexuality’s decriminilisation in 1967.
Mann, who is represented by the queer-owned Gray Area Gallery in Norwich, will present a series of new works, bringing together soft furnishings and ceramics. The exhibition is entitled A Room of One’s Own, a reference to a Virginia Wolf essay which incorporated a love letter sent between two men in 1909.
The works will be on display in the museum’s Cast Gallery, installed between its permanent collection of Greek and Roman sculptures which the museum hopes will “reveal the ways in which the classical body has long been a
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