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The Terrence Higgins Trust Auction @ Christies 2024

Im pleased to say I will once again be donating to the Terrence Higgins Trust Anual Art Auction at Christies London.

We're delighted to welcome you to The Auction 2024, which will take place from 7pm on Monday 15 April 2024 at Christie’s.

The highlight of the events calendar is one of London’s most successful charity auctions and a night like no other. Over its history, The Auction has raised over £5.2 million, vital funds that make a difference to the lives of people living with and affected by HIV.

View the incredible lots with a glass of fizz during the welcome reception in Christie’s Great Room, followed by an evening of frantic bidding for world-renowned artwork, luxury travel lots and exciting experiences. The evening continues with live entertainment and a standing supper.

We have once again collaborated with The Auction Collective to allow the auction to be live streamed from Christie’s with real-time bidding for those who are unable to join us on the night.

Tickets for The Auction 2024 are on sale now. We hope you can join us to make it the best year yet!

If you'd like to hear more about The Auction, please contact events@tht.org.uk or call 020 7812 1669.

Postcards from the Edge Berry Campbell Gallery NY

Get ready! Postcards From the Edge 2024 is almost here—and it's going to be one of our BIGGEST exhibitions and sales to date.

Starting Jan 20, 2024, you can snag over 1,500+ original artworks from famous, established, emerging, and new artists from around the world... all for only $100 a piece!

Can't wait to see the work? Join us for our famous preview party on Friday January 19th at Berry Campbell Gallery! This is your only chance to see all artworks before the sale begins! See below to get tickets to attend the preview in-person or online.

Note: If you're a 2024 contributing artist, you should have already received a complementary invitation to the preview party via email. No need to purchase tickets. A full list of contributing artists is available here.

Questions? Email postcards@visualaids.orgKaren Abato

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Press Release The Lost Boys at The Lightbox Museum, Woking, Surrey, U.K

Press release

The lost boys, The Art Fund Prize Gallery, The Lightbox Museum, Woking, Surrey, England.

November 7th -19th 2023

Open daily 10am-5pm Entry is free.

The Artist will be present on the 7th of November 1pm-5pm and again on the 19th of November 1-5pm

www.thelightbox..org.uk

www.mrpauldavidchisholm.com

For more information contact the Artist mrpauldavidchisholm@:gmail.com or peter@thelightbox.org.uk  

Surrey based artist, Paul Chisholm presents a body of paintings and sculptures from his Lost Boys series which is inspired by the boys lost to the HIV epidemic throughout the decades and related suicide. It also points to stigma faced by those boys affected by HIV within modern day society.

The title of this exhibition comes from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up but refers in the context of this exhibition to the boys who simply couldn’t grow up because of the Aids/ HIV crisis. Although this exhibition refers to Boys throughout its context it is no way limited by gender as this affects us all.

‘A stitch in time saves nine’, meaning if you sort out a problem immediately it may save a lot of extra work later; if you’re lucky! The AIDS crisis and those affected are not so lucky and it took seven long years for any ‘Art’ (Anti-Retroviral Medication) to come in effect and it was another 9 years- 1996 until this medication slowly became effective and in ‘the everyday cushions’ these concerns are played out. These cushions are rough in nature but soft at hand and are a labour of love and frustration, each stitch is a direct sign of life; a life the artist thought he would not live after his diagnosis of HIV in 2007. With each word a contradictory or opposing word appears on the cushions scattered across the gallery floor alongside these are black pencils that lie with red tips alluding to both blood, the black death and  an artist’s career that may have been cut short like so many others in the 80’s and 90’s. Each pencil is varnished with anti-viral glitter this coating both suggesting protection against viruses and a reminder of ever present danger. This steri-coat varnish is often used in hospital settings, without the glitter of course! However each glitter shard stands as another star burning bright and a reminder of those who we have loved and lost.   

On the wall hang two poems created using Chat GPT, one which the artist asks to create a poem about  the lost boys due to the Aids Crisis’ and  another ‘the Lost Gay boys due to the Aids crisis’. With each the artist raises questions upon the fact that a Virus knows no boundaries gay or just a boy. It’s interesting to note the change in language used by the AI when instructing it to use a label such as ‘Gay’. Either way the work ends with making the Artist cry.  

A soft sculpture entitled ‘My magical mental illness power’ is covered with 101 red ribbons and Nazar badges - the Turkish amulet which deflects the evil eye. The red Ribbon was created as a way of remembrance by a group of 12 Artists in 1991, from the New York Arts charity Visual Aids. (A charity which the artist often exhibits with and is awarded arts grants by) Coupling both of these symbols of hope, remembrance and protection within the context of mental health the artist questions the ongoing stigma associated with HIV and AIDS, whilst simultaneously creating a sculpture which empowers those affected both those lost to history and those struggling today.

 In a self-portrait from 2017 the artist has placed a badge on the heart and it states ‘ Over 1 million people die of AIDS each year that’s the population of Amsterdam gone’ This statement came from a poster when the International Aids Conference was held in Amsterdam in 2018 (The Artist splits his time between the City and Surrey, England). Just imagine… ‘That’s an entire city in silence every year, year on year’…….. Aids is not over…..

On the opposing wall a large print of Paul Chisholm’s iconic ‘I’m Tired’ poem stands which was read aloud at the Keith Haring Art and Activism conference at Tate Liverpool in 2019. This work juxtaposes the AI generated poem giving a more human take on our collective consciousness. Ultimately the work ends by saying ‘I’m Tired but never too tired to keep creating Art which someday somewhere may touch another’s soul ……..’    And I think this exhibition is a testament to that………  

Paul Chisholm (1983) was born in Canterbury, England and brought up in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. He studied a BA in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University (2004) before doing his MA in Fine Art at Chelsea -College of Art in London (2020). In 2023 he was nominated for the Queer Britain Art Prize. This exhibition is funded by an Art Council England Developing your creative practice grant.

Save the Date Terrence Higgins Trust Auction @ Christe's, London

On the 4 July 1982, Terry Higgins was one of the first people in the UK to die of AIDS-related illnesses. His passing inspired the formation of Terrence Higgins Trust and we have been at the heart of HIV and sexual health activism ever since. We support people around the country to live well with HIV; we campaign to end HIV misinformation and stigma; and we continue to urge government to take the steps necessary to ending HIV transmission once and for all. And we couldn't do any of it without supporters like you.

To help us mark 40 years of HIV activism, support and incredible progress, we are hosting our spectacular Auction on Monday 6th March at the world's most famous auction house, Christie's in London.

Our wonderful supporters are crucial to everything we have and will achieve, and we would love for you to join us to mark this important moment in our historyWe are delighted to introduce The Auction 2023

Taking place on Monday 6th March at the iconic Christie's Auction House we hope you will be able to join us in celebration of our 40th Anniversary.

Tickets can be bought here: https://ww2.emma-live.com/The-Auction-2023/?home_page=

Photograph by James Basire

Visual Aids New York Postcards from the Edge

I’m pleased to say one of my works will be available to purchase as a part of Visual Aids Postcards from the Edge fundraiser at Ortuzar projects in New York. Raising vital funds for this amazing charity. They have given me both the most amazing opportunities to exhibit in N.Y and several Artist grants over the years. Their work in normalizing HIV and Aids is needed now more than ever please support them in anyway possible.

https://www.ortuzarprojects.com/

Terrence Higgins Trust Auction @ Christies, London, March 07, 2022

Im pleased to announce my work “ Jack&Jill” Will be up for auction at the annual Terrence Higins Trust auction at Christies and with the Auction Collective. Please bid generously and see link below for tickets. Terrence Higgins Trust: The Auction 2022 Tickets Tickets, Mon 7 Mar 2022 at 19:00 | Eventbrite

YOU CAN NOW BUY ME !

Thanks to the lovely paparazzi ...........

I was photographed outside the annual Terrence Higgins Trust auction at Christies in London where " IAM NOT AN ABOMINATION" AND " OUR INJURIES" Were on exhibition for this hugely worthy chairity. The kind people at Getty Images have purchased the rights to this image and you can now purchase it for as little as £495! Please see the link for purchases or click HERE

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" The Worlds most painful Dildo "

im pleased to say " Viral Load " sold at Christies to a private buyer raising a lot of money for the Terrence Higgins Trust. There has been a lot of publicity about the piece which is all good. However as always with the Media some quotes have been taken out of context. Which saddens me. No one is to blame for a virus and no one should face discrimination, blame or stigma. We are all accountable for our own actions and the consequences that become us. "|Viral load" was originally created to visualise the virus and the pain caused by contracting it. It was NEVER intended to " Get back at " or hurt anyone. " a voodoo doll can also be used for good in your own life or in the lives of others: for love, healing, protection, success" Kind Regards The Artist Mr Paul David Chisholm

You are quite the subversive lad! Quite the provocateur. I was most impressed with your piece Viral Load. As a sculptor myself, I relate best to 3-D form. This is a powerful piece – odd, though, that the excellent accompanying commentary doesn’t mention black as the colour of death. This penis is in part undoubtedly a powerful a statement precisely because it uses black. The HIV crisis was called the “Plague” in my day with its obvious reference to the Black Death/Plague. Is this curator so afraid of not being politically correct he dare not reference black’s symbolic association lest it impute black men’s penises, too? Possibly. Certainly, he views the relevance of the red colour chosen for the pins on the glans as worthy of comment and that they signify ‘Danger” [i.e. HIV virus in the ejaculate] Neither does he reference that this penis is erect. The fact that only in its erect state can the penis be an HIV vector is an important feature . The tumescence is relevant. – ready for action/loaded, so to speak. Flaccid, a penis is not a threat for infection. Bruce Flowers Curator Art Critic 2017

Links To Press 

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/606939/World-most-painful-dildo-sex-toy-charity-auction-HIV-positive

http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/20/this-pin-studded-dildo-could-be-the-worlds-most-painful-sex-toy-6585744/