David Hutchison
Excerpt from my draft book Lavender Rising: An Intersectional History of the Queer Struggle
6.12 METAMORPHOSIS AND MEDICAL INSPIRATION
The award-winning Edinburgh film producer and intersectional artist David Hutchison advises us that he once helped Derek Ogg’s safer sex campaign by adapting his (David’s) Kitschen sculpture as a condom dispenser in the Blue Moon Café.
In March 2023, David completed a film documentary
Metamorphosis that covered an exhibition of
Edinburgh’s queer history curated by Naomi Lawson
and Louise Meiklejohn for the Living Memory
Association (Thelma) in the Wee Hub in Ocean
Terminal. For an excerpt see Hutchison (2023).
During 2019, David’s ‘Medical Inspirations’ Art Exhibition was showing at the Edinburgh University Chaplaincy Centre on Bristo Square (Hutchison, 2022)
David was inspired by a group of female medical U of E students who became the first to matriculate at a British University on 2 Nov 1869. They later become known as the Edinburgh Seven. Their campaign to graduate resulted in legislation (UK Medical Act, 1876) to ensure that women could be licensed to practice medicine.
David was also inspired by a grocer’s daughter called Margaret Anne Bulkley who mothered a child before changing their name and appearance to James Miranda Barrie and gaining an MD at Edinburgh University in 1812.
The majority of the paintings in David’s exhibition were from his story
‘The Book of Skulls’, set in an alternative 1870s Edinburgh, where an
orphan medical student and her gender bending lecturer help the police
to catch a killer.
David Hutchison (2023) Metamorphosis Trailer (Linkedin)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hutchison-10603232/recent-activity/all/
David Hutchison (2022) Medical Inspirations (Chaplaincy Centre)
https://www.davidhutchison.info/medicalinspirations.html
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