MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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The art of framing the problem not solving it
Photographer STEPHEN GILL speaks to the Morning Star about the world he sees through the lens of his camera
(L to R) From Coexistence 2011; from Pigeons 2012; from Talking to Ants 2009; from The Pillar 2015 - 2019
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ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
Coming up for Air: Stephen Gill – A Retrospective
Arnolifini, Bristol
BRISTOLIAN Stephen Gill’s photography confounds all expectations. Like with Marmite you’ll either be intrigued or not bothered at all.
Anthropology, archaeology have been uttered as descriptions of the multilayered visual textures of his work. Is there any truth in that, we ask.
Gill is philosophical, he believes his early work are studies of people and the things we do and what we encounter: “It was a genuine interest and something I think photography is really good at; making such descriptive studies.”
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