Helen Cammock Removes National Portrait Gallery Installation Amid Churchill Controversy
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Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Cammock has withdrawn her video installation "Persistence" from the National Portrait Gallery following controversy over its portrayal of Winston Churchill. The work, which compared Oliver Cromwell and Churchill, had been on display for ten months and was due to run until August. Cammock stated the decision to remove the work was hers, after facing escalating pressure including a letter signed by more than fifty peers calling for its removal. The gallery said it respected her decision.
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· 3 pulledCammock said the decision was hers.
The gallery said it respected it.
Persistence is a forty-minute narrated video that Cammock made in response to the NPG's permanent collection.
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