Pete McKee’s new exhibition explores and celebrates the working class.
The Sheffield-based painter’s latest exhibition ‘This Class Works’ is an exploration and celebration of the working class and a collaboration between Mackie and fellow artists, filmmakers and photographers.
This came two years after McKee’s last show and one year after he was diagnosed with end-stage liver disease and underwent a transplant.
He said: “During these two years with him, I went through a lot personally.
“This will be my first body of work post-transplant, so it will be interesting to see if it has had a decisive impact on my thought process.
“This exhibition will definitely be more edgy than my previous exhibitions, but it will still leave you with your tongue firmly in your cheek in places.
“This will be my first body of work since the transplant, so it will be interesting to see if it has had a decisive impact on my thought process.” – Artist Pete McKee
“I’m very passionate about my roots, but I hate seeing what’s happening to my class in the current political climate.”
The artist, who has previously been commissioned by bands such as Arctic Monkeys and Oasis, said the exhibition “aims to re-address the imbalances that currently exist in media and society”.
“It’s an imbalance that ridicules and stigmatizes the working class as lazy, selfish, needy, ignorant, intolerant, worthless and the cause of all society’s problems,” he said.
“It’s important to me to show the spirit of the working class: the pride, hope, fight, passion and resourcefulness that are their foundation.”
Ms McKee said she grew up in poverty on public land and was “nostalgic for the times when it seemed like we survived on tenacity and the unyielding hope that better things were just around the corner”. Looking back.
“I believe that this exhibition emphasizes the nobility and dignity of the working class then and now, and that I hope that those who visit this exhibition will leave feeling uplifted and enlightened by its beauty. “I am,” he said.
The exhibition will run from July 14th to 29th at 92 Burton Road, a warehouse space in Sheffield.
