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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/williamson-art-gallery-museum-cr
 aig-easton-is-anybody-listening/
SUMMARY:Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: C
 raig Easton: Is Anybody Listening?
DESCRIPTION:Williamson Art Gallery &amp\; Museum presents Craig Easton: Is 
 Anybody Listening?\, a touring exhibition from the University of Salford A
 rt Collection which showcases two award-winning series of photographs\; Ba
 nk Top and Thatcher’s Children.\n\nCraig Easton: Is Anybody Listening? s
 eeks to challenge typical stereotypes of northern communities through auth
 entic representation and raise aspirations of young people within the regi
 on through an accompanying engagement programme called Our Time\, Our Plac
 e.\n\nCraig Easton won Photographer of the Year (2021) at the Sony World P
 hotography Awards with his series Bank Top\, a collaboration with writer\,
  poet and social researcher Abdul Aziz Hafiz\, examining the representatio
 n and misrepresentation of northern communities. Commissioned by Blackburn
  Museum and Art Gallery\, the work focused on a small\, tight-knit communi
 ty in Blackburn.\n\nHe also took second place in the documentary category 
 for Thatcher’s Children\, which explores the inter-generational nature o
 f poverty and economic hardship as experienced by three generations of one
  family in Blackpool.\n\nThe engagement programme\, Our Time\, Our Place b
 eing exhibited alongside Easton’s work\, has empowered young people to e
 xplore their own history and share it through pathways in photography and 
 associated practices.\n\nIs Anybody Listening? Our Time\, Our Place is pre
 sented by the University of Salford and generously supported by The Nation
 al Heritage Lottery Fund.\n\nImage credit: Mohammed Afzal\, Birdman of Ban
 k Top\, Craig Easton.\n\nEvents\n\n29th February\, 09:30am – 4pm: Is Any
 body Listening? Symposium: Commissioning and Collecting Socially Engaged P
 hotography. a thought-provoking exploration of socially engaged photograph
 y\, inspired by the touring exhibition and engagement programme Is Anybody
  Listening? Our Time\, Our Place. Book on Tickets Wirral.\n\nAbout Craig E
 aston\n\nEaston won Photographer of the Year (2021) at the Sony World Phot
 ography Awards with his series Bank Top\, a collaboration with writer\, po
 et and social researcher Abdul Aziz Hafiz\, examining the representation a
 nd misrepresentation of northern communities. Commissioned by Blackburn Mu
 seum &amp\; Art Gallery\, the work focused on a small\, tight-knit communi
 ty in Blackburn.\n\nHe also took second place in the documentary category 
 for Thatcher’s Children\, which explores the inter-generational nature o
 f poverty and economic hardship as experienced by three generations of one
  family across the Northwest.\n\nA passionate believer in working collabor
 atively with others\, Easton also conceived and led the critically acclaim
 ed SIXTEEN project with sixteen leading photographers exploring the hopes\
 , ambitions and fears of sixteen-year-olds all around the UK\, in which Wi
 lliamson Art Gallery also participated as an exhibiting gallery.\n\nHe oft
 en tackles stereotypes and responds to the negative way in which the mains
 tream media can portray Northern communities. The relevance of Easton’s 
 work has resurfaced in a new light as communities endure the cost-of-livin
 g crisis and face new challenges and segregation.\n\nThe exhibition comes 
 at the same time as the launch of Easton’s new book centred on his award
 -winning Thatcher’s Children series. Quotes from successive prime minist
 ers demonstrate how deprivation is connected to the social policy failures
  of successive governments.
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CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
LOCATION:Williamson Art Gallery & Museum\, Slatey Road\, Birkenhead\, Wirra
 l\, CH43 4UE\, Wirral\, United Kingdom
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