Magnus Hastings, an award-winning photographer, is displaying his biggest exhibition to date at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery. The exhibition titled Queen, celebrates the artistry of drag and the collective spirit of pride. Featuring newly commissioned photographs, dozens of Liverpool’s drag artists were shot in the city’s Pride Quarter. The gallery describes it as the “first of its kind.”
As a child, Hastings loved to steal his sister’s clothes and wear his mother’s heels and feather boas, until he got “shamed out of being a drag child.” He expresses how his photographs celebrate the art form of drag and its incredible work that goes into it. In an interview with The Guardian, he said, “It’s about seeing drag as art – because when drag is good, it’s incredible. There’s a massive freedom in it.”
The exhibition will feature a selection of Hastings’s most famous photographs, including renowned drag queens Bianca del Rio, Courtney Act, and Trixie Mattel. He mentions that he was a little drag child, making it his world. He felt embarrassed out of it, so his expression of drag was to photograph it; it felt like home.
Featuring both newly commissioned photographs and Hastings’s most famous photographs, Queen will celebrate the art form of drag and its incredible freedom. The exhibition will showcase drag as an art and how much work goes into it. It is a must-see for anyone who is interested in the art form and its significance in our world today
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