With That You Turned And Walked Out Of My Life
Forever. This title by artist Giles Round, who used a basic squared paper to create the colourful text drawing, encapsulates a rather romantic angle on 'Glory Hole', an exhibition exploring the realities of and attitues to gay sex in the public-private arena around a city - London in this case. Over 18s Only, and already having caught the attention of British tabloid The Sun for something along the lines of art/public money being given to homosexuals/filth, the exhibition was opened by No Bra, Suzanne Oberbeck's irreverent tabloid-inspired topless satiric band. Into the mix goes assume vivid astro focus ever-anonymous cover stars of Leon de la Barra's 'macho not rough' Pablo magazine (pictured). Even if the exhibition doesn't fulfil every factions' expectations, it is brought together intelligently and without previous era's hopeless atachment to pure shock value in art, despite what moral right crusader style editorials might hope for.