Real and Imagined Lives

Sobers, Shawn

Abstract

Real and Imagined Lives explores identity through works drawn from the National Portrait Gallery Collection. Fictional character sketches written by well known authors accompany Tudor & Jacobean paintings of unknown sitters, while writers offer an alternative view on contemporary photographs of well known people with Bristol connections such as J K Rowling and Damien Hirst.

I was commissioned to write a piece exhibited with the portrait of rapper/singer Tricky.

Citation

Sobers, S. (2012). Real and Imagined Lives. 20 October 2012 - 6 January 2013. (Unpublished)

• Exhibition Performance Type: Exhibition
• Conference Name: Real and Imagined Lives
• Conference Location: M Shed Gallery, Bristol
• Start Date: Oct 20, 2012
• End Date: Jan 6, 2013
• Publication Date: Oct 6, 2012
• Keywords: portrait photography, portraiture, fact and fiction, short stories
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1437263