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Tapestry celebrating refuse collectors to go on show in National Portrait Gallery
Michael Armitage’s work will hang alongside high-profile figures in new gallery when NPG reopens in June
A vibrant tapestry that celebrates the essential but sometimes unappreciated work of refuse collectors is to go on display alongside portraits of high-profile figures such as Stormzy and Andy Murray when the refurbished National Portrait Gallery reopens this summer.
The tapestry, titled John Barry, O Kelly, Sonny and Richard Moore after the four essential workers it depicts, is by the Kenyan-born artist Michael Armitage, whose painting of the same name was commissioned by the Southbank Centre during the Covid pandemic. It has now been acquired by the NPG.
Read the original article at The Guardian