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.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Mark Neville (born 1966) English
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title:Port Glasgow Town Hall Christmas Party
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date created:2005
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materials:C-type hand print
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measurements:100.00 x 125.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased 2008
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accession number:PGP 420.1
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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...