IC3 GL5 is a collection of new works by Dan Guthrie which investigate historical and contemporary Black presences and mis-presences in his hometown of Stroud.

These works draw from Dan’s experiences of being a part of a council-led panel set up to review local streets, buildings, statues and monuments in Stroud. The panel gained nationwide media attention for a consultation they ran last year that, amongst other things, asked for people’s thoughts on what they think should happen to an object in the town called the Black Boy Clock that was built in the midst of the transatlantic slave trade.

Dan has been developing new moving image works and a research library in response to some of the conversations surrounding the consultation for a week-long takeover of the Plymouth Arts Cinema space, to be staged in dialogue with Huma Mulji’s exhibition, Your Tongue in My Mouth in the MIRROR gallery.