McDiarmid worked in a wide array of media and styles in his artmaking. After 1975, all his work focussed on gay experience, and he is known for his huge wall hangings and other fabric works about HIV/AIDS in the mid 1980s. He used bold designs and colours and very kitsch, 'non-art' materials, such as hologram foil - his argument was: "Good taste can be a prison."
Maker (Jewellery Designer), Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer), Artist (Industrial / Product Designer), Artist (Photographer), Artist (Painter)