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Lesson 56 - Wales

FINNEMORE,Peter (b.1963 - )

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Date: 1998

Media: photograph on aluminium

Size: 61.4 x 83.6 cm

Acquired: 2006; Gift; Contemporary Art Society for Wales

Accession Number: 28175

Lesson 56 Wales was made in the months following the referendum for the creation of a Welsh National Assembly. The work is based on photographs of textbooks used by Finnemore’s grandmother at her school in rural Carmarthenshire. Written from an exclusively English perspective, the texts show a disregard for the identity, language and culture of Wales. However, the childlike doodles help to undermine or even mock the text’s ‘authoritative’ voice.

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