A new exhibition is going to give more than 400 people in the West Midlands not only their fifteen minutes of fame – but the chance to take centre stage in the main hall of Walsall’s Garman Ryan Collection at the New Art Gallery.
5 Oct 2007 12:00
Angela Meredith
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Visual Arts
A new exhibition is going to give more than 400 people in the West Midlands not only their fifteen minutes of fame – but the chance to take centre stage in the main hall of Walsall’s Garman Ryan Collection at the New Art Gallery.
Photographer Ming De Nasty (think about it) was commissioned by the gallery to take portraits of local people from Aldridge, Bloxwich, Brownhills, Darlaston, Walsall and Willenhall throughout this summer – and the result is a giant wall hanging officially unveiled on October 4.
Angela Meredith is a freelance journalist/writer who covers the Arts, travel and leisure and consumer health. Her work has appeared on websites such as Men’s Health, Discovery Health and TravelZoo – and this year she worked on the launch of the website Moneypage.com as Travel/Leisure writer. She contributes accident and health and safety news to a personal injury website and has written extensively for the b2b journal Pharmacy Business. Angela is a former winner of Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award for new playwrights and has written for BBC TV. In 2007 she was short listed for the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook’s New Novel Award. She began her career as an actress and still acts occasionally. She is a full member of the NUJ and Equity and has a BA (Joint Hons) in Literature & History of Art and an MA in Literature.
