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Friday Lates gallery talk

Queer art histories

This Pride Month, Gallery Educator Tilly Scantlebury explores how contemporary artists can ‘queer’ the canon of art history
This event is part of Friday Lates.
Date
Friday, 20 June 2025
Time
7.15 - 8.15 pm

About

Join Tilly Scantlebury this Pride Month, as we explore the way in which artists have used traditional art historical representation for decidedly queer ends. 

Through key case studies and close visual analysis, we’ll ask, what’s at stake in the tactics of each artist - from Holbein to Catherine Opie, Titian to Mickalene Thomas - and what possibilities emerge from putting queer theory into conversation with the history of art?

After the talk, we'll move into the galleries to discuss how queer methodologies can be put into action.

Image: Detail from Antonio del Pollaiuolo and Piero del Pollaiuolo, 'The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian', completed 1475

Your speaker

Dr Tilly Scantlebury is an art historian and one of our Gallery Educators at the National Gallery. Since completing their doctorate in 2021, Tilly has been delivering outreach workshops to young people and adults, which aim to widen access to art history. Alongside public programmes, Tilly also writes and delivers lectures in their research specialism of feminist, queer modern and contemporary art. 

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Friday Lates gallery talk

Queer art histories

This Pride Month, Gallery Educator Tilly Scantlebury explores how contemporary artists can ‘queer’ the canon of art history
This event is part of Friday Lates.
Date
Friday, 20 June 2025
Time
7.15 - 8.15 pm

Free

Places are limited and available on a first come, first served basis. 

This event takes place in the Welcome Space, which is on Level 0 of the Roden Centre for Creative Learning. Please arrive in good time to access the building and find the meeting place in the advertised room.

Please view our General Admissions page for more information.