Jesse Glazzard
Helios & Samantha (kissing), 2025
£50
A limited edition risograph printed with silver ink on black paper by Jesse Glazzard, signed and numbered by the artist and exclusive to House of Voltaire
Edition Size
100
Dimensions
42 x 29.7 cm
Finishing
Risograph with silver ink on black paper
Courtesy the artist, Spectra CIC and Studio Voltaire
About The Artwork
This limited edition silver ink risograph showcases a powerful photograph from Jesse Glazzard’s campaign poster for ‘It’s a Love Thing’. Held at Studio Voltaire in 2025, the exhibition presents a groundbreaking selection of archival sexual healthcare posters from the Spectra CIC collection, spanning from 1987 to 2015. In response to the archive, artists Jesse Glazzard and Pank Sethi have created two new campaign posters in collaboration with Spectra CIC staff to shed light on these vital histories. ‘It’s a Love Thing’ offers a small window into the sustained efforts of many trailblazing sexual health campaigners, activists, and advocates and provides an important visual history of London’s sexual health services and the key role collaboration between support organisations, artists and creatives has played in sustaining the sexual health landscape over the last thirty years. The project explores what it means to be in a community with one another and the vital conversations and knowledge sharing between LGBTQIA+ people living and loving across time.
About Jesse Glazzard
Jesse Glazzard’s raw, authentic approach to photography is best defined as an intimate blend of portraiture and documentary. His portraits tell stories, told or unsaid. Stories of life, stories of love, stories of self, Glazzard captures fleeting moments and understands both the body and the mind as vehicles in perpetual change and motion. He documents spaces, mates, lovers, himself and models both in staged portraiture and spontaneous images. Glazzard studied at the University of Salford and Central Saint Martins.