Lives Less Ordinary is open from 25th January - 20th April 2025. Free to the public, the show has been curated by the impressive Samantha Manton, held by Two Temple Place.
My work is featured and for sale in the shop - so obviously, I recommend it.
"Challenging long-standing inequities and misrepresentation, this exhibition will present compelling assertions of pride, tenderness, resilience, humour and hopefulness, and moments of play, joy and rest. Looking beyond the often reductive narratives of crisis and struggle that traditionally characterise representation of working-class people and communities in British arts institutions, Lives Less Ordinary champions a gaze from within, from artists from working-class backgrounds who have used their creativity to reflect wide-ranging experiences and identities, depicting and defining their culture and communities on their own terms.
Lives Less Ordinary will bring together ceramics, film, painting, photography and sculpture from wide-ranging public collections, archives, and contemporary artists across the UK, to explore a nuanced and authentic reflection of working-class experience, within an architectural setting that both manifests and interrogates wealth and privilege."
Here's a lukewarm review by Jonathon Jones in The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jan/27/lives-less-ordinary-review-working-class-exhibition-two-temple-place