Peter Taylor’s documentary miniseries on the history of the Provisional IRA provided space for the Republican narrative of the Troubles to be relayed – albeit not without criticism or pushback.
The first exhibition I assisted on was called Ceasefire: Reflections of Conflict by 16 British & Irish Artists, Wolverhampton Art Gallery & Museums, 12 November-31 December 1994. I contributed to the catalogue, selected, researched + contacted artists and agents for works to loan, worked on the hang. The gallery had just had a big refurbishment but the originally planned exhibition fell through about 6 weeks before it was due to open, so making use of works in the WAG collection. Indeed, Wolverhampton was pioneering in collecting as well as exhibiting works relating to the civil war of Northern Ireland (as is noted here https://mrulster.com/2017/07/27/art-can-tread-where-words-and-politics-often-cant/)
Fascinating. I remember these series from broadcast ...
I used to use them in my teaching, as an example of how the BBC (and Taylor and his interviewees) functioned as an archive of Troubles memory.
The first exhibition I assisted on was called Ceasefire: Reflections of Conflict by 16 British & Irish Artists, Wolverhampton Art Gallery & Museums, 12 November-31 December 1994. I contributed to the catalogue, selected, researched + contacted artists and agents for works to loan, worked on the hang. The gallery had just had a big refurbishment but the originally planned exhibition fell through about 6 weeks before it was due to open, so making use of works in the WAG collection. Indeed, Wolverhampton was pioneering in collecting as well as exhibiting works relating to the civil war of Northern Ireland (as is noted here https://mrulster.com/2017/07/27/art-can-tread-where-words-and-politics-often-cant/)