David McDiarmid b. 1952

  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
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."
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Citations

  • Powerhouse Museum, 'Poster, 'AIDS Council of NSW presents: Safe Sex Ball’', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

    http://from.ph/379501

  • Powerhouse Museum, 'Poster, 'David McDiarmid & Peter Tully 1984’', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

    http://from.ph/379503

  • Powerhouse Museum, 'Poster, 'Urban Tribalwear Peter Tully’', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

    http://from.ph/379506

  • Gott, Ted (1997), 'Wrapper, Dapper, Snapper—David McDiarmid and the Crafted Gay Body’, Craft Victoria, 27/235, 2, pp 6-11.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists