| Ref No | BOFF/1/2/2 |
| Title | The King's Trial, the Querelle project, and articles for project research |
| Description | Contains images, articles, press cuttings and photocopied book chapters on cross dressing (cross-dressing). Includes the King's Trial project. The King's Trial was intended to be part of the Billboard project, a campaign to bring contemporary art to the street.
Boffin's The King's Trial project comprises of variations of a woman dressed as a man with the following caption: This is a woman. She is dressed as a man because... (there follows various options to tick). This exhibition was intended to be mounted on billboards (enclosed is a leaflet relating to the billboard campaign. Tessa's work campaign was based on the court case of Jennifer Saunders who was convicted, and later released, of raping two girls while dressed as a man. Newspaper articles referring to the case are included. The woman appearing in The King's Trial is Nerina Ferguson, Tessa Boffin's girlfriend.
The work is referenced in Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures, edited by Peter Horne and Reina Lewis in 'Dyke! Fag! Centurion! Whore! an appreciation of Tessa Boffin by Cherry Smyth
There is also images relating to the Querelle project. |
| Date | 20 Sep 1991 |
| Level | File |
| Repository | Farnham |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| RelatedNameCode | DS/UK/18 |
| DS/UK/25 |
| Location | Box No BOFF 1 |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/18 | Boffin; Tessa (1960-1993); Photographer | 1960-1993 |
| DS/UK/25 | Ferguson; Nerina; Photographer | |