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Retrospective exhibition, highlighting the redefinition and deconstruction of identities – “from camp to gay to queer”. Charting the shifts in politics and individual and community expression that unfold across the decades of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, this exhibition also reveals McDiarmid’s artistic and grassroots political response to the impact of HIV / AIDS during the 1980s and beyond, for which he is best known internationally. Curated by Sally Gray.

The Sydney Mardi Gras Museum exhibition celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, drawing on the extensive holdings of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. The exhibition was curated by Nick Henderson.

Curated by Robert Lake.

Curated by Judy Annear

The National AIDS Campaign and the National Gallery of Australia joined forces in 1994 to present the major exhibition 'Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS’ – the largest exhibition on the subject of HIV/AIDS to be staged in Australia, and the first exhibition on this subject to be held at a National Gallery anywhere in the world.

The exhibition was curated by Ted Gott, Curator of European Art at the National Gallery of Australia.

AGLASSOFWATER project curated by Luke Roberts and Scott Redford; Initiated by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane QLD. The Sydney Tour of You Are Here was generously assisted by the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival Limited.

Barry Stern Gallery presents …...... Mardi Gras 1993 With David McDiarmid, Vivienne Binns, William Yang, C. .Moore-Hardy, Brenton, Catherine Rogers , Craig Judd, Ian Oliver, Arone Raymond Meeks, Lachlan Warner, Roger Brain.

A 1992 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival exhibition. Included 9 gay male artists David McDiarmid, Peter Tully, Gavan Browne , Gordon Fitchett, Murray Hilton,Ian Oliver, William Yang, Gary Whitelaw and Paul White.

Solo exhibition held in conjunction with the 1991 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival.

“Primitive Futures” by Peter Tully and “New Work” by David McDiarmid as per the invitation for the individual titles. David McDiarmid and Peter Tully main exhibition title.

Project 33 “Art Clothes” mixed exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) with Peter Tully, David McDiarmid, Jenny Kee, Linda Jackson, Katie Pye , Jenny Bannister and others.

McDiarmid’s third one-person show was held at Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, in December 1978, and featured a suite of work executed in collage on
mulberry paper and an accompanying portfolio of
offset printed works drawing on hyper-masculine images of American gay male visual identity: ‘clones’, lumberjacks and cowboys.
The show ran November 11 -01 December 1978 and full title was “New Works by David McDiarmid and Peter Tully”

David McDiarmid’s first one person show was “Secret Love” in December 1976 at Hogarth Gallery Paddington NSW.

His second one person show was 6-24 December 1977 at Hogarth Gallery Paddington and was called “Living with Plastics” and David’s part was called “An Australian Dream Lounge “ and the Peter Tully part “Jewellery”

The exhibition was held in conjunction with the 4th National Homosexual Conference, Paddington Town Hall. Featured artists included: David McDiarmid, Peter Tully, Frances Budden, Vivienne Binns, Sally Colechin, Bill Morley, Doug Erskine, Robert Lawrie etc.

The exhibition was also accompanied by a fund-raising benefit for the Conference on Sunday 23rd of July, which featured Women Action Theatre, Aloma, Bread and Roses, and others. Compered by Jude Kuring.