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Description: | Peter Howson (b.1958) is one of the UK's leading contemporary figurative artists. His work addresses issues of conflict, politics and social conditions in urban Britain and further afield. He trained at Glasgow School of Art 1979-1981. Howson's individual talent lies in presenting a 'warts and all' portrayal of life inspired by his own experience of growing up in Glasgow and in his travels in Britain and abroad. In 1993 he went to Bosnia as official war artist, recording the conditions endured by victims of war. This project culminated in a one-man show at the Imperial War Museum. More recently he was sponsored by The Times newspaper to document the plight of refugees in Kosovo. 'Wolverhampton Dreaming' is the culmination of a millennium project which took place in Wolverhampton in 1999. The aim of the project was to collect the dreams of local people and record them for posterity. The dreams were gathered and bound in a book which was shown as part of an exhibition in April 2000. The Gallery commissioned Peter Howson to produce this large scale oil painting. As part of the millenial celebrations, an ambitious project was developed to record the dreams of local inhabitants of Wolverhampton. Dream boxes were placed at venues throughout the city centre, workshops initiated with groups and a roving camera recorded up to 2000 people's dreams and aspirations. The dreaming project was unique, never before had the dreams of a community been recorded in this way. The painting produced takes the form of a montage of dreams including both nightmarish scenes and aspirations for the future. Consequently the painting contains fragmented scenes depicting war, death, dark forests, lonely beaches, lottery wins, marriage and even the Titanic movie. There are also references to the Wolves football team.
Painting of numerous scenes including a wedding, a village and UFO's. This represents the dreams of the people of Wolverhampton in the year 2000. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Football Death Beaches Villages Fine arts Oil painting Oil Paintings stories & allegories Wolverhampton Marriage Sport People Art collections | Temporal: | 2000
20th century (1900-1999) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | HOWSON; Peter (1958 -) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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