An exhibition commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the publication of the Stephen Lawrence report.

Exhibition Dates:  17 Sept - 15 Oct 09

The Stephen Lawrence Gallery
Queen Anne Court, room 077
University of Greenwich
Park Row
Greenwich
London  SE10 9LS

Private View: 3 October, 5 - 7 pm

Gallery Opening Times
Monday to Friday 10 am - 5 pm
Saturday 11 am – 4 pm
Disabled Access


St Andrew Holborn
The Crypt
5 St. Andrew Street
London
EC4A 3AB

Private View: 17 September, 6 - 8 pm

Crypt Opening Times
Monday to Friday 10 am - 5.30 pm

2009 marked the 10th anniversary of publication of the influential report of the Macpherson Inquiry into the police handling of the Stephen Lawrence case. This exhibition, which spanned two locations, used journeying as a metaphor to examine the relevance of the issues raised by Macpherson today. 

What state are we in 10 years on from the report? Looking back, what have we learnt? Looking forward, what are we to expect? These questions are not intended to elicit policy answers. Instead, the exhibition examines artists’ responses to these questions in their practice.

The exhibition considered two locations: Greenwich, the London borough where Stephen Lawrence lived and was murdered, and Holborn, the legal heart of London. These two locations not only represented the sites of incident and inquiry, but they also opened up an interstice between ideas of act and response, local and national, intimate and universal, presentation and representation. 

The artists' works considered the journey between these sites in relation to loss, identity, perseverance, danger, exchange and remembrance. Viewers were invited to undertake the journeys physically or conceptually, becoming journeying subjects in the exhibition. 

While the Milestone exhibition presented an artistic narrative about the journey of the Macpherson Report 10 years on, it also attempted to make available the journey itself. 

Exhibiting Artists: Brigit Connolly, Ana-Laura Lopez de la Torre, Ekua McMorris, Graeme Miller, Eduardo Padilha, Claire Palfreyman 

Curated by Jack Tan 

The exhibition included an artist-led workshop by Ekua McMorris on Saturday 3rd October as part of ‘Your Greenwich’, an all day programme of events for teenagers on the World Heritage Site. The workshop employed ideas of walking and narrative to explore themes of personal identity.