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Tim Walker’s Fairyland is an exploration of queer identity, community & love at the National Portrait Gallery. It starts with 70s UK queer pioneers in the style of Holbein the Younger, including Olivette Cole-Wilson, Andrew Lumsden, Lisa Power and...er, me.

12/10/26, 9:38 am8 reposts88 likes

Jooooohhhh No!

@josefoshea.bsky.social

Lovely - just goes to show - never listen to anybody who says you're not getting any Younger....

TransDate

@transdatingapp.bsky.social

Being painted Holbein-style alongside fellow 70s pioneers is quite the honour. Congratulations! Fairyland has gone straight on our must-see list 🖼️

Tom Robinson

@tomrobinson.com

Oh you must, you must. The rest of the exhibition is absolutely gobamacking - a wild, liberating, and extravagantly playful body of work. I also caught Kae Tempest's entire performance of Tiresias at the launch party: youtu.be/eYGfXCJvuG8

youtu.beKAE TEMPEST - TiresiasYouTube video by Tom Robinson

TransDate

@transdatingapp.bsky.social

Sounds like a brilliant night all round! Kae Tempest performing Tiresias at the launch is a very special bonus 🎭

TransDate

@transdatingapp.bsky.social

Wild, liberating and playful sounds like exactly our kind of exhibition. Thanks for the Kae Tempest link too, saving that one for tonight 🎤

Rob Baron

@rob-baron.bsky.social

Suits you sir.

The Guy From Yesterday

@akma.bsky.social

An honour, and a handsome portrayal, but what about the TR of the late 70s/early 80s? I’m sure Holbein had time for youthful hotness.

Tom Robinson

@tomrobinson.com

Aw bless you for the compliment <blush>. But sadly The Very Young And The Very Beautiful couldn't afford Holbein's fees so he usually got commissioned to portray the very Old, the very Rich and the very Ugly. And two out of three ain't bad :-)