“Is the work of the archive to fix memory or produce it?” David Bussel, writing in the catalogue for Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov @raven__row
Thoughts applicable beyond the legacies of artists to other types of archives…
#exploreyourarchive
Micro exhibition @lcclondon library until 4 May. Part of @gmdlcc Collective Lab.
This selection represents the smallest sized items in my HIV and AIDS design archive:
Top Row
Matchbook (candlelight vigil). The Terrence Higgins Trust. Donated by Kudos Bar/Cafe. circa 1990-95.
Love & Respect lenticular card. Gay Men Fighting AIDS (GMFA). 2002.
Teen Spirit badge. Body & Soul. Design: Kate Tilly. date unknown (post 2000).
Beaded Pin. date unknown.
+ve badge. GMFA. circa 1997-1999.
World AIDS Day badge. National AIDS Trust with Health Education Authority (HEA). 1995.
Know About PrEP card. Prepster. circa 2020.
Bottom Row
Love Alone Is No Protection sticker. HEA. Illustration: David Shenton.
circa 1991.
Count Me In sticker. GMFA. 2010.
Walk For Life pedometer in box. Crusaid. 2009.
It’s That Condom Moment (Hindi) leaflet. The Naz Project. 1993.
HIV & AIDS – Do you care? keyring condom holder. Tayside Health Promotion. Contains Durex ‘Jeans’ condom. 1993.
Put It On Before You Get It On! leaflet. Blackliners. circa 1998.
@ual_archives #microexhibition #hivprevention #hivawareness
As the sun comes out… from the Norfolk LGBTQ+ archives @millenniumlibrary@queernorfolk Norwich Gay Men’s Health Project cards from safer sex pack, 1990s.
#hivawareness #condoms
More digging from the Norfolk LGBTQ+ archives @millenniumlibrary@queernorfolk Norwich Gay Men’s Health Project flyer from safer sex pack, 1990s.
#hivawareness #fightaids
More from the Norfolk LGBTQ+ archives @millenniumlibrary@queernorfolk Norwich Gay Men’s Health Project World AIDS Day packs from the 90s that would have been assembled by hand.
#worldaidsday #redribbon #safersex
Absolutely delighted to meet @d.shenton today IRL in Norfolk @queernorfolk (must admit to tipping into fangirl mode).
Also lovely to have a root around the archive at the impressive @millenniumlibrary & see some old familiar faces…
Will be posting more archive snaps over the next few days.
#queerarchives #hivprevention #hivactivism
Children of the Night @swkplay
Whilst not the main focus of the play, it is refreshing to hear a young working class woman’s experience of the UK’s first heterosexual HIV cluster in the 90s north.
A production full of life and truth, performed by an energetic small cast with clever stage design that makes the most of a minimal set. Recommended.
#HIV #doncaster #nightlife
Added to the archive – a souvenir from Friday night’s readings. Card: UK AIDS Memorial Quilt patch for Nigel Young by Jonathan Blake, Sue Vickery & Roxie Cressy, 2022. Haiku by Simon Maddrell.
#aidsmemorialquilt
Exploring HIV/AIDS Graphic Design
with Siân Cook, creator of the HIV & AIDS Design Archive.
Sian Cook is a graphic designer, educator and the creator of the HIV/AIDS Graphic Communication Archive, a historic visual resource documenting the UK’s HIV and AIDS response. Her work reflects over three decades of involvement with voluntary organisations and explores how graphic communication shaped public understanding and health promotion around HIV/AIDS. In this talk she will examine the shifting strategies and audiences of HIV/AIDS design and offer insight into the archive and its role in design history and public health communication - in both the past and present.
Plus, explore local examples of Norfolk’s HIV/AIDS graphic design from the Norfolk Heritage Centre.
11am on Saturday 11th April 2026
Millennium Library, Second Floor
Ages 18+ | FREE
