Artwork by Gee Vaucher and Penny Rimbaud, including a recording of the original ‘Thatchergate Tape’, featured as part of the ‘Peculiar People’ show at the Focal Point Gallery in Southend-on-Sea during the spring of 2016, part of a series of events celebrating the history of ‘Radical Essex’. Vaucher’s painting Oh America , featuring an image of the Statue of Liberty hiding her face with her hands, was used as the front page of the UK Daily Mirror newspaper to mark the election of Donald Trump as US President on 9 November 2016. From November 2016 to February 2017 the Firstsite art gallery in Colchester , hosted a retrospective of Gee Vaucher’s artwork.
Peculiar People show
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