Event overview
As part of the Visual Cultures Guest Lecture Series, Tom Hunter will screen and discuss his film 'A Palace for Us.'
Tom Hunter on the Woodberry Down estate in Hackney, makes a film with older residents called A Palace for Us.
This is a magical film. It weaves the memories of people who grew up in east London and have lived on the estate since it opened into a silvery thread of meaning illuminated by dramatisations of their experiences filmed in the aged, but dignified, Woodberry Down buildings and public spaces. The estate, begun in 1946 and completed in 1963, was like a "palace" to those who remembered the East End slums, remembers one participant. But the film is also a palace of memory. Contemporary art often seems obsessed with youth: here it listens to the stories the old have to tell.
Tom Hunter graduated from the London College of Printing with a BA First Class Honours [1994]. Hunter took his MA at the Royal College of Art, London [1997]. In 1998, Hunter won the John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award. In 2006 Hunter was the first artist to have a photography show at the National Gallery, London. Hunter lives and works in Hackney, London. His work portrays and documents the communities and life he knows as neighbours and friends in East London. He has exhibited work both nationally and internationally, in solo and group shows and is also a Senior Research Fellow of the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
Current shows include ‘A Palace for Us’ at the Serpentine gallery and ‘Unheralded Stories’ at Purdy Hicks gallery London.
Dates & times
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27 Jan 2011 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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