Back after our summer break, we are delighted to have Stuart Linden Rhodes share with us his archive of 1990s LGBTQIA+ bars and clubs from across the north of England. Emma Bentley Fox also returns this month to update us on her research & development project around queer archives & photo-documenting.

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Monday 26th September, 2022. Doors at 6pm, kicks off at 7pm 

Headrow House (First floor), Leeds

Free Entry

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Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1957 Stuart Linden Rhodes has lived in Harrogate since 1985. 

Throughout the 1990’s Stuart spent his nights with his camera, capturing life in LGBTQIA+ bars and clubs across the north of England. From Birmingham to Newcastle, Manchester and Middlesborough. 

His photographs and reviews of the club scene appeared monthly in Gay Times and All Points North magazines throughout the 1990’s.

During the 2019 lockdown the original negatives were rediscovered in his attic, and he set to spending almost a whole year scanning them to publish on his Instagram @Linden_Archives. This led to magazine interviews with publications including DJ Magazine, iD Magazine, Attitude and AnOther Magazine amongst many others. Ultimately leading to a Kickstarter funded limited edition of 500 copies book Out & About with Linden, A Queer Archive of the North.

The photographs continue to be posted daily on @linden_archives.

insta: @linden_archives.

Emma Bentley Fox

Emma Bentley Fox, she/her, is an artist & producer based in Leeds. Interested in image making as community making, she has a deep commitment to creating caring & accessible spaces, informed by her own experiences of exclusion. A Party Mom with, and co-founder of, Party Mom Society, she has been creating and documenting alternative queer party spaces in Leeds since 2018. Her photography is soft, personal and intimate, though not sometimes without edge or silliness. She uses photography as a way to explore gender expression & identity, Disability and her relationship to those around her, using joy, care & radical togetherness as acts of resistance. Shooting on 35mm film, she also has an interest in personal and historic photographic archives, and analogue film techniques.

Emma recently received DYCP funding from Arts Council England and is currently working on a research & development project around queer archives & photo-documenting. 

Website: emmabfox.co.uk

insta: @emmabfox

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Monday 26th September, 2022. Doors at 6pm, kicks off at 7pm 

Headrow House (First floor), Leeds

Free Entry

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