Pride Month 2026: Art, Identity and the Power of Being Seen - Visual Artists Association
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Overview
Pride Month 2026 spotlights LGBTQ+ artists whose work explores themes of identity, visibility, memory, and lived experience. The VAA celebrates how art has long played an important role in challenging prejudice, preserving histories, celebrating individuality, and creating space for voices that might otherwise go unheard.
Featured Artists
Dr Rupert Record (London-based painter and researcher) explores autobiography, LGBTQ+ histories, memory and abstraction through layered paintings that revisit personal memories and queer spaces in 1960s Piccadilly. Zoja Kalinovskis (digital and analogue photographer, printmaker, and photo etcher) is a disabled, neurodivergent, queer, and non-binary artist whose practice sits at the intersection of art and activism, exploring disability, identity, and social justice.
Themes
Both artists demonstrate how art fosters empathy, encourages dialogue, and helps audiences understand identity and belonging. Rupert's work connects personal memory with collective LGBTQ+ histories through abstraction and silence, while Zoja's ongoing series Unseen explores disability, imagining a world where disabled bodies are visible, valued, and celebrated.
- Theme
- A celebration of LGBTQ+ identity, visibility, and the power of art to challenge prejudice, preserve histories, and amplify voices of queer and disabled artists exploring themes of belonging, self-expression, and lived experience.
- Audience
- LGBTQ+ communities and allies
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