Gillian Wearing: We Are Here
Date uploaded: June 30, 2014
The New Art Gallery Walsall will present a new single-screen video work by British photographer and film-maker Gillian Wearing. The exhibition entitled 'We Are Here', is open daily on floor four of the gallery, from the 18th of July to the 12th of October 2014.
Wearing is known for her films and photographs, which explore our public personas and private lives. We Are Here sees the artist return to the area in and around Sandwell where she grew up and features people from the West Midlands region speaking various monologues as if from the grave. The concept for We Are Here is taken from American poet Edgar Lee Masters' book Spoon River Anthology (1915), where residents rise up from the grave to talk about their lives, losses, regrets and memories of Spoon River that ran close to the poet's home town.
Gillian Wearing has shown extensively in the UK and across the world. In 2007 the artist was made a Royal Academician and in 2011 she was honoured with an OBE. Wearing won the Turner Prize in 1997.
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