UK AIDS Memorial Quilt shown in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall

For the first time in 30 years, the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt is on full display, honouring 384 individuals who lost their lives in the 1980s and 90s. Visitors to the Tate Modern can see the display between 12 and 16 June 2025.

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. In total, this unique historical document and work of art contains 42 quilts.

Representatives from George House Trust attended a breakfast in celebration of the display in the Tate Modern. We have been proud custodians of the Manchester quilt, today visible with the 41 other quilts in the Turbine Hall.

The Manchester quilt is a piece of our own history, remembering people supported by Manchester AIDSline (later becoming George House Trust) and Body Positive North West.

The quilts are a timely reminder that people are still losing their lives to HIV, and that stigma and global politics are impacting people living with HIV in the Global South, as funding for HIV prevention and support programmes is terminated.

The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt Partnership is a coalition of seven UK HIV support charities working together to find a permanent home for the UK Quilt, to conserve it and to ensure it is put on public display as often as possible. The partnership includes:

• The Food Chain
• George House Trust
• Positive East
• Positively UK
• Sahir
• Terrence Higgins Trust
• Waverley Care