This exhibition, disguised as a museum store, uses Bowler’s experience as a museum registrar to create an archive of his seven-year journey through the UK’s healthcare system to access gender-affirming top surgery - from Bowler’s first visit to a GP to his recovery after surgery revisions. Comprising drawings, films, photographs, letters, sculptures, and collected objects, the installation enters the emotions and physicality of being trans into a fictionalised archive.

THIS EXHIBITION IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH A GRANT FROM THE WESTON LOAN PROGRAMME WITH ART FUND, AND SUPPORT FROM THE WELLCOME COLLECTION AND THE ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION / IMAGE INSTALLATION VIEW OF CLAYE BOWLER: TOP AT HENRY MOORE INSTITUTE IN LEEDS 2022 BY ROB HARRIS

10 SEPTEMBER – 23 NOVEMBER

TOP BY CLAYE BOWLER

INSTALLATION

WINNER OF THE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION'S BEST SMALL MUSEUM PROJECT AWARD

Also showing is our evolving exhibition, We Are Queer Britain, marking the 50th anniversary of the UK’s first Pride March. It is a riot of voices, objects and images from the worlds of activism, art, culture and social history covering over 100 years of queer life.