LJMU Special Collections & Archives are happy to have supported contributions to EX LIBRIS: an exhibition of LJMU Graphic Design & Illustration staff work inspired by published materials. Curated by Seel Garside, the exhibit runs Oct 2025 – Dec 2025 in the Atrium Gallery at the John Lennon Art & Design Building.

Reproductions of two sets of material from our Special Collections were made for the exhibit, and used by staff as inspiration for original artworks.

This includes:

Queer Sex Criminal
Pete Thomas, 2025

Thomas references Gay Times issue from Sep 1992 which reported on protests by the direct action group Outrage! for the 25th anniversary of the decriminalisation of same sex relations in 1967. Queer Sex Criminal links the persecutions of the past to those of the present, with newly taregetted attacks against trans people in the UK using the same tactics as those once used against gay men. His work calls for protest, ‘as urgent now as it was then.’

PF Gay Times Sep 1992 p.14-15

Rauschenberg: XXXIV drawings for Dante’s Inferno
Prints VIII, XIV, XVIII, XXXIV
Robert Rauschenberg, 1964
Reproduced under fair usage with kind permission from the Rauschenberg Foundation

SC/B 760.92 RAU

Christopher Olive, Assistant Archivist 2025