Case studies

Michael Bird used his time as Goodison Fellow to explore the Artists’ Lives collection in depth: “I ranged at will, sampling and pursuing, following threads and taking detours through (at the last count) more than fifty interviews – still just a fraction of the total.”

Michael used this time to great effect, gathering audio material for a startling exhibition ‘In their own words: Artists’ Voices from the Ingram Collection’ at the Lightbox, Woking which ran May-July 2017. Michael is also working on a ‘history from below’ book exploring post-war art in Britain, provisionally entitled Artists’ Lives in Modern Britain, for Lund Humphries in partnership with British Library Publications, due 2018.

For more information on both the 2016-17 Fellowships, read the Fellows’ reflections in the 2016-2017 National Life Stories Review and Accounts, p26-27.