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Shocks to the System

Group show at Ikon Gallery, Royal Festival Hall, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Towner Art Gallery, City Museum and Art Gallery, Maclaurin Art Gallery, Royal Albert Memorial Museum. 1991
Date: 12 March, 1991 until 24 April, 1991
Curator: Isobel Johnstone
Organiser: Arts Council Collection

From the foreword to the catalogue: “This exhibition is one of a series drawn from the Arts Council Collection containing a broad range of work selected around a theme…this exhibition concentrates upon the present and the more recent past. Political and social concerns have given rise to such a diversity of work that to go back further in an exhibition of this scale would have meant omitting younger and perhaps more urgent voices.”

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People in this exhibition + view all 36

»  Terry Atkinson

Born, 1939 in Thurnscoe, UK

»  Willie Doherty

Born, 1959 in Derry, Northern Ireland

»  Mona Hatoum

Born, 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon

»  Tam Joseph

Born, 1947 in Dominica

»  Donald Rodney

Born, 1961 in Birmingham, England. Died, 1998

Exhibition venues + view all 7

»  City Museum and Art Gallery

Plymouth, United Kingdom

»  Ikon Gallery

Birmingham, United Kingdom

»  Maclaurin Art Gallery

Ayr, United Kingdom

»  Northern Centre for Contemporary Art

Sunderland, United Kingdom

»  Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Exeter, United Kingdom