Viewing Luke Edward Hall: 300,000 Kisses

Queer love in the ancient world gets long overdue attention at No.9 Cork Street this month in Luke Edward Hall’s solo show 300,000 Kisses, presented by The Breeder. The artworks are taken from the Penguin book of the same name – a series of suppressed or forgotten queer tales on love, desire and affection, written by the poet Sean Hewitt.

Hall’s vibrant and lyrical paintings give contemporary life to classical iconography, showing the vulnerability, beauty and the eroticism of the male body. Dreamlike and romantic, yet psychologically charged, these are works that seduce.