Darkened room in the Mead Gallery with sculptural exhibit

Prophecy Exhibition (2022)

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Monday 27 June

Prophecy was an exhibition that which visited us is 2022. It used the story of Nuneaton-born author George Eliot’s Middlemarch to look closely at overlapping stories and histories which bring people together through shared experience.

Exhibition dates: 7 May – 26 June 2022

In Middlemarch, Eliot described a wave of change in a Midlands town through themes still familiar to us 150 years after the novel was published:

The coming of outsiders with different ideas
The fear of a potentially fatal epidemic
Proposals for a new political system that would ensure more people had a voice in society.

Imagined as a conversation that unfolds and develops within the Mead Gallery, we worked with Coventry-based artist Laura Nyahuye to conceive an exhibition that invites visitors, local groups and communities to contribute their voices by leaving responses that complemented the works on display.

The exhibition included the work of artists: Malala Andrialavidrazana, Dineo Seshee Bopape, JJ Chan, Esiri Erheriene-Essi, Marianne Fahmy, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Matthew Krishanu, Edwin Mingard, Maria Mahfooz, David Moore, Eleanor Mortimer, Laura Nyahuye, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Laure Prouvost, Khadija Saye, Caroline Walker, Nilupa Yasmin and Rehana Zaman.

Community partners: FWT – A Centre for Women (Foleshill), Mary Ann Evans Hospice (Nuneaton), The Westwood Academy (Canley).

This exhibition was generously supported by UK City of Culture and The Ampersand Foundation.