Seek My Face
Project Title:
Seek My Face
Project Location:
West Bromwich
Date of Project:
February 2007 - February 2008
Project Participants:
West Bromwich Town Team
West Bromwich Residents
Artist:
Shaun Morris
Project Funders:
Neighbourhood Renewal Fund
Sandwell Partnership
Sandwell MBC
Project Overview:
Multistory commissioned Shaun Morris to paint portraits of people who live and work in West Bromwich. Shaun met many people through community centres, neighbourhood initiatives and clubs and societies that exist in the town. Over 50 people took up this unique opportunity to ‘sit’ for the artist and be sketched and Shaun then selected 25 drawings to paint. The portraits offer a sense of community and were exhibited at West Bromwich Town Hall in February 2008.
“… I first painted about West Bromwich, my hometown, its people and places, as a student in 1988, and in one way or another I continued to paint about it for the next 10 years.
This unique project has allowed me to find the ‘long way home’ that I have been seeking, and I am very grateful to Multistory and Sandwell Council’s faith in my abilities. Meeting the huge variety of people I have met over the last 12 months has been an enormous privilege, and there have been many occasions when I have been sat drawing someone in some temple, office, kitchen, when I’ve felt as an artist ‘it doesn’t get much better than this’. As well as all the ‘identities’ I have been given the opportunity to present, the project has allowed me to find anew my own identity and relationship to West Bromwich, both artistically and personally.”
Shaun Morris, January 2008
Click on the link below to download the Seek My Face Exhibition flyer.
Seek My Face Exhibition Flyer (PDF) 3.8MB
Below are images from the Seek My Face Exhibition at West Bromwich Town Hall.
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