About this artwork
Our families can help shape us. Margaret Mitchell started photographing her sister Andrea and her children in 1994 when they were living on the Raploch Estate in Stirling. At the time, the estate ranked highly in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD). Margaret was working on a project exploring identity and social stigma but spending time with her nieces and nephew changed the direction of the project. It became more about the children’s lives. She realised that for them life revolved around their Mum, each other and Grandma’s house. The problems of the estate they were growing up on didn’t really register.
Published March 2022
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artist:Margaret Mitchell (born 1968) Scottish
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title:Andrea and her three children, Steven, Kellie and Chick
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date created:Negative 1994; printed 2017
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materials:Inkjet print
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measurements:50.00 x 50.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 2017
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accession number:PGP 910.1
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gallery:
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell was born in Stirling and studied at Edinburgh Napier University and Edinburgh College of Art. She works within a documentary and portraiture tradition. Her photographs seek to portray the individual and their experiences with childhood, family, place and belonging often explored....
