This installation will be open 12-2pm, Monday-Friday, allowing visitors to bring their lunch, sit at the specially constructed tables and enjoy the artwork.

After a period of research as LU Arts’ artist in residence for the year, Ian found that key moments in Loughborough’s LGBT+ histories were not being recorded or archived. Collecting personal memories and images from alumni and information from student newspapers and other sources, Ian created artwork that is displayed alongside wider key moments within LGBT+ history, including Section 28.

The material was originally presented at Let’s Gather To Remember Everything We Forget - an immersive cocktail evening with drinks complementing the images. Ian worked closely with Alex Marlowe and other members of the LGBT+ Association, as well as the LSU Cocktail Society to put on the original installation.

In addition to the specially constructed tables, which display the images and ephemera, there are lampshades decorated by students at a Happy Mondays workshop led by Daniel Fountain and a video of the Loughborough Red Rose Fashion Show in 1994. The seminal album The Age of Consent by Bronski Beat (1984) plays in the background.

Following this exhibition, the images and information collected will form a new archive at the University, ensuring that these moments and memories are not forgotten.

Other recent exhibitions by Ian have been displayed at MoMA in New York, Harvard University and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

For more information on this exhibition visit the LU Arts website.