Class action: the show pricking the bubble of art snobbery

The Guardian

‘Class action: the show pricking the bubble of art snobbery’

2 March 2023

Philippa Kelly

Simeon Barclay

What You Make of It (Trace), 2022

“This work came out of Barclay thinking about his father, who arrived in the UK in the 1950s from the Caribbean,” says Kenning. “It’s about the humanity of those journeys, taking a leap and inhabiting different spheres. We are interested in the different narratives of working-class experience, the dynamics of identity.”