An exhibition in a swanky London mansion explores the depiction of the British working class in art, highlighting the reductive and distorting lens of the middle-class gaze. The exhibition aims to correct how the working class is portrayed and find a singular, authentic identity across 80 years. However, the review critiques the exhibition's idealistic approach and argues that the chosen artwork often falls into stereotypes and fails to capture the true complexities of working-class life.
On show in one of London ’s swankier mansions, this exhibition features some great art – but betrays a clichéd view of what authentic working class expression really is, built in the 1890s as a London pad for millionaire William Waldorf Astor. Photos and paintings of common people are hung around a hall that looks like the grand staircase of the Titanic.
It’s soon clear this exhibition has set itself an impossible, quixotic goal: not only to correct how the working class are seen but actually to find that class as a single, stable body with an authentic identity across 80 or so years from the 1940s to now.Photograph: © Estate of Ceri Richards. All Rights Reserved. DACS 2025 / Derek Williams Trust/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales.
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