Latest Art - Road horror?

A shocking photographic exhibition featuring graphic reconstructions of car crashes and harrowing portraits of people who have lost loved ones in road traffic accidents is to be shown in Scotland for the first time. The controversial exhibition 'When Lives Collide' will be shown in Edinburgh in December. It shows the after-effects of road crashes in an attempt to hammer home the carnage that bad driving can cause on Britain’s roads. Some 3201 people were killed in car incidents in 2005 and 28,954 suffered serious injuries. Among the 37 chilling photographs are a bereaved mother clutching her dead son’s ponytail and a baby lying face down on the road beside the wreckage of a reconstructed car accident. There have been difficulties finding spaces for the exhibition, which was first shown in the Oxo Art Gallery in London last year. Many art galleries were not interested due to the distressing nature of the photographs. However, the exhibition was featured on Radio 4’s Today programme and attracted 8000 visitors over three weeks. When Lives Collide will be shown at the English Speaking Union Gallery from December 6-17. The seven-city UK tour starts in Birmingham this month and ends in Belfast next May. For the full story - click the title Irish Art