Thursday 17 May 2007, 18.00–19.30

Leroy Cooper is a photographer who has focused on the multi-cultural community of Toxteth, Liverpool over twenty years since 1984. The work represents Cooper's unique relationship with his immediate community and also with the city of Liverpool. Cooper believes his work shows the human face of a community that has been 'marginalised and excluded from the mainstream of Liverpool life, suffering the disadvantages of institutional racism, high unemployment and social exclusion.'

As part of the Writing on the Wall festival and on the occasion of Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde at Tate Liverpool, Cooper will be in conversation with Bryan Biggs, Artistic Director of the Bluecoat Arts Centre. During this discussion, Cooper gives an illustrated account of his own work while responding to the exhibition as a whole. All welcome.

In collaboration with Writing on the Wall

Tate Liverpool  The Auditorium
£7 (£5.50 concessions), booking recommended
£4 (Members)

  

This event is related to the Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde exhibition