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A Sense of Time: canal photographs by Clifford Morris

Date

1996

Reference code

CRT/MOR/1

Creator

Morris, Clifford (Mr)

Administrative /​ Biographical history

A collection of 35 monochrome prints of local canals all taken in an area known as the BCN. This was an area of canals formerly operated by the Birmingham Canal Navigations Company. A map is included showing the locations of the photographs within this area. After his serious illness and emforced retirement Clifford was keen to pick up his hobby again and looked at the possibility of photographing the local cabal system as, by their very nature, they tend to be fairly flat and he could walk without getting too much angina and discomfort. He attended a West Midlands Arts photographic surgery at the Light House in Wolverhampton. Evelyn Wilson, the curator at the Light House, immediately offered him gallery space there to show the work on completion. The work was funded by a grant of £600 from West Midlands Arts and one of £200 from the light House. There was also sponsorship from Ilford limited who supplied materials. Just as the exhibition was completed the world's first Internation Conference on Canals was held at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham and, in conjunction with this, 'A Sense of Time' was shown in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery from the 18th June 1996 until the 7th July 1996. The exhibition was also shown as originally planned at the Light House in Wolverhampton from the 14th June until the 27th July 1997. During this showing in the gallery arranged for a photographic seminar which included a talk on canals by Dr. Barrie Trinder, university tutor and writer of many books on industrial archeology and another by the well known landscape photographer, Fay Godwin.

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