{"id":1884876,"date":"2026-04-16T05:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1884876"},"modified":"2026-04-16T05:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:14:45","slug":"pre-raphaelite-exhibit-at-cartwright-hall-explores-lgbt-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1884876","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Raphaelite exhibit at Cartwright Hall explores LGBT+ stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"BradfordBradford Museums and Galleries<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Rochyne Delaney McNult chose Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Portrait of a Young Man to reflect on<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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An exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite artworks has gone on display alongside responses to the pieces from members of Bradford’s LGBT+ community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The exhibition at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery features work by artists such as Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones and John Collier and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Artist Sophie Powell from Equity Partnership, a charity run for LGBT+ people, welcomed the project and said she hoped more galleries and art collections would follow suit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“These conversations are vital and ever evolving, they bring expertise through lived experience into the room. This is important work – representing, embodying and celebrating queerness in art,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was an influential 19th-Century movement founded in London in 1848.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Its work rejected the artistic conventions of the period and instead looked to Medieval art and nature for inspiration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In November 2025, Equity Partnership members met with Cartwright Hall staff to view and discuss the artworks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Now their reflections have been presented alongside the images.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\"BradfordBradford Museums and Galleries<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Sophie Powell chose to reflect on Queen Guinevere’s Maying<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Powell said her favourite work in the collection was John Collier’s Queen Guinevere’s Maying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“It embodies a strong woman in a central role, and is the starting point for so many conversations about the Arthurian legends,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Being part of the Pre-Raphaelite project through Equity Partnership, I learned that Guinevere’s legend has been twisted and distorted over the centuries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Far from being a fallen woman, having her head turned by Lancelot and leading to the downfall of King Arthur, this plot was written into legend long after the inception of the stories.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The exhibition includes works by Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Rochyne Delaney McNulty, another member of Equity Partnership whose reflections have been included in the exhibition, said they had chosen Rossetti’s Portrait of a Young Man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We mused this could be a gender flipped portrait, especially because it’s unnamed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Showing the openness that William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti welcomed, I think we could learn a lot about acceptance from the Pre-Raphaelites,” they said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Listen to highlights from <\/i>West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest <\/i>episode of Look North<\/i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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