The Queer British Art 1861-1967 exhibition held by the Tate modern explores the connections between art and the range of sexualities and gender identities during the time period. The exhibition depicted many different styles of showing queerness with a closer look at particular artists or specific works that are notable for their relation to the topic. Going around the exhibition was an interesting experience because the design of the rooms was very simplistic with a basic presentation of each piece of art, this brought the viewers attention straight to the art however it forced the atmosphere in the rooms to be quite timid as people tended to follow each other around in a basic clockwise manner.
Based on the context of the exhibition you wouldn’t expect there to be a clear theme between all of the works however I found it very hard to connect anything together at all just by eye, the main information given about queer art was within the texts and without those small descriptions the art would not create a collective that flowed.
I found that the more in depth rooms such as the David Hockey and Francis Bacon were the most rewarding as you got a real sense of a personality/character behind the artwork that was created, along with being given so much more information that related to the topic. So overall the theme of the exhibition was very interesting with sections of it giving lots of valuable information, however some of the areas were a little disjointed and could probably do with more of a narrative.