Badge - David McDiarmid, Q

Dimensions: 5.5cm round
Made in Melbourne
Exclusive to the NGV design store

For his Rainbow Aphorisms series, produced between 1993 and 1995, David McDiarmid co-opted the familiar spectrum of colour to complicate the ‘gay is good’ politics it had been associated with during the gay liberation movement, which stood in stark contrast to the devastation wrought by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

David McDiarmid
Australian 1952–95, worked in United States 1979–87
Q 1994
from the Rainbow Aphorism series 1994
computer-generated colour laserprint 37.4 x 28.3 cm (image), 38.4 x 29.3 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1994
© David McDiarmid/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia