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In the exhibition catalogue Wanjiku Nyachae states: “ At this moment each of us lives within several hundred stories, ours and other people’s”. True Stories is based on historic images from two significant photographic archives, both housed in West Midlands collections: Vanley Burke’s portraits of British African Caribbeans from the 1970’s on, and the extensive Benjamin Stone Archive of 19th-century travel photographs. By sampling and reworking such images using photo-collage, painting, video installation and screenprinting, the artists here – Peter Grego, Barbara Walker, Bharti Parmar and Vanley Burke himself – hint at the multi-faceted nature of life stories. (Robert Clarke: Guardian review 20.09.03)
Wolverhampton Art Gallery 20 September – 15 November 2003
Museu de Arte Contemporânea– São Paulo, Brasil April 2004
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Waterhall July – September 2004
Catalogue: True Stories
Published by: Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Contact: peter.grego@bcu.ac.uk
Research: BIADResearch@bcu.ac.uk
BIAD, Birmingham City University, Gosta Green, Birmingham B4 7DX