Port Glasgow Town Hall Christmas Party
About this artwork
In 2004, Mark Neville spent a year as artist in residence in Port Glasgow, a town confronting in concentrated form the hardship of Scotland’s post-industrial decline. His stay resulted in a photographic book which he then distributed free as a gift to the community. This image featured on the front cover of the book and quickly took on an iconic status. The book, according to the Greenock Telegraph, caused a “sensation”, as locals expressed both their disgust and appreciation. It revealed, in the words of one respondent, that “we [Portonians] like a good party”. With the project, Neville sought to reignite the potential of the documentary tradition. Photography, he insists, can and should be shared.
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title:Port Glasgow Town Hall Christmas Party
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accession number:PGP 420.1
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materials:C-type hand print
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date created:2005
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measurements:100.00 x 125.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased 2008
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copyright:© Mark Neville
Mark Neville
Mark Neville
Mark Neville’s lens-based work centres on his interest in subverting genres within film-making and photography and is an investigation into how different types of film and photographic practice align themselves with diverse demographic groups. Neville is concerned with how images generally are disseminated according to class and income, and how…