Description: UK AIDS Memorial Quilt Part of the largest community arts project in history, the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt helps us remember and celebrate all lives lost to HIV from the beginning of the pandemic in the 1980s to the present day. View the Quilt Google Arts and Culture Launched on World AIDS Day 2023, the
“The AIDS epidemic and the appalling number of lives taken by it was all too often portrayed in the media as being about a faceless mass of unknown people. In truth, of course, it was an all too large patchwork of individual stories; of real people with names and lives, with loved ones and families and careers and talents never quite allowed to reach fruition. How better to represent that than through the AIDS quilt, which gives individuality back to so many people who risked becoming mere statistics? It is
Jay Rayner
“I wanted the panel to symbolise the many aspects of Virgil’s life. Virgil was a Christian Minister so the Cross is the main focus. There is also a pink triangle to represent Vigil’s activism and the words ‘Dancing with Angels’ is something I found scribbled in a book in Virgil’s handwriting.