PRIDE: CERTAINLY VERY MERRY

PRIDE: CERTAINLY VERY MERRY

2 February - 5 March

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

4 Winchester Street

Newtown, Auckland

New Zealand

The exhibition Certainly Very Merry takes its title from the answer given by cult 1970s television chefs Peter Hudson and David Halls to an interviewer’s point-blank question “Are you gay?”

Hudson and Halls’ unique brand of camp, slapstick, booze-soaked humour and questionable cooking beamed into New Zealand’s living rooms at a time when homophobia was rampant and homosexuality was illegal. The 1969 Stonewall Riots were still recent, the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill would not occur until 1986 … and Hudson and Halls were in the closet with the door wide open.

Pride Festivals all over the world – including ours in Auckland - are celebrations of the distance our communities have come in terms of our diversity and creativity as well as our cultural and political power.

Certainly Very Merry  is a creative, diverse, joyful cross-section of work by GLBT visual artists practising in Aotearoa New Zealand today.

Chiara Corbelletto, Russ Flatt, Tanu Gago, George Hajian, Gavin Hurley, Lonnie Hutchinson, Cruz Jimenz, Richard Maloy, Judy Millar, Tomislav Nikolic, Shannon Novak, Richard Orjis, Reuben Paterson, Gui Taccetti, Imogen Taylor, Jack Tolove

http://aucklandpridefestival.org.nz

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