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Exhibition: Margaret Glover in Bradford

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Bradford Peace Museum, Margaret Glover, exhibition, Glover’s combined passions for peace and art create a fascinating socio-historical record of peace activism.

And from 5 August until October 2016 the Bradford Peace Museum will be exhibiting work by artist and peace activist Maggie Glover with the title ‘Painter of Honest Portraits’.

A portrait painter, very active in the Labour party, the peace movement, and on environmental issues, she used her art as a tool for her witness, travelling in the ministry giving illustrated talks about the work of campaigners and peacemakers she had portrayed.

Through her work Glover combined her passions of peace and art to create a fascinating socio-historical record of peace activism. She covered various meetings, peace vigils conferences, anti-war protests throughout her life, and these are depicted in her artwork.

She also completed a mammoth PhD on Peace artists in which she investigated the rich range of images and outlets associated with pacifism, and considered the changing palette and motifs of peace, especially between 1900 and 1940.

Following on from a successful exhibition showcasing her work in 2014, entitled ‘Images of Peace’, this new exhibition will feature artwork already held in The Peace Museum Collection, but will include newly acquired objects from her personal records.

The exhibition will also include a ‘behind the scenes’ look at her artistic process, through documents and photographs from her archive.

To celebrate the opening of the Maggie Glover exhibition, on 11 August 2016 there is a special evening event, starting at 5.30pm with a drinks reception and followed by introductions to the exhibition and a viewing. Entry is free, all are welcome. Please RSVP.

The Bradford Peace Museum’s exhibitions explore peace history as well as contemporary issues, local heritage, peacemakers’ stories and the ways in which people have worked to make the world a better place to live.

Its ‘Bradford Room’ chronicles Bradford’s long affinity with peace, peacemaking and peacemakers, such as Kenneth and David Hockney and social campaigners Margaret MacMillan and William Forster.

A room dedicated to the First World War tells the stories of those who opposed the war, including conscientious objectors such as the ‘Richmond 16’.

Other exhibits look at ‘Campaigning; then and now’. The ‘Greenham Common: Common Ground, Uncommon women’ exhibit details the tireless campaigning of the Greenham women.

The Peace Museum also has a mini-exhibition ‘What Story Will You Tell?’ and covers the story of Sadako Sasaki, the Japanese girl who was two years old when an American atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, near her home.

Sadako became one of the most widely known hibakusha — a Japanese term meaning “bomb-affected person”.

She is best remembered through the story of the one thousand origami cranes she was determined to fold before her death, aged 12, and is to this day a symbol of the innocent victims of nuclear warfare.

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