Mark Neville - Port Glasgow

Publisher: Mark Neville, Inverclyde Council
Year: 2004
Format: Hardcover with dustjacket
Edition: 1st Edition, 8,000 copies
Condition: Very Good
Pages: 96
Size: 30 x 25 cm

In 2004 Neville spent a year as an artist in residence in Port Glasgow, the world centre for shipbuilding fifty years ago, now a town facing an industrial and economic decline. The result of this stay was a beautifully produced coffee table-style book conceived as a symbolic gift to the community. The book was uniquely delivered, free, to the eight thousand households in the Port by the members of the local Boys Football Club. In this way, rather than having a public artwork imposed upon them, the Portonians received a document of their lives and of their participation as both the hosts and protagonists of an artistic experiment. The book is not available anywhere else, commercially or otherwise, in shops or by mail order.“